Mona Siddiqui is Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies at the University of Edinburgh, a member of the Commission on Scottish Devolution and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
16 Facts About Mona Siddiqui
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Mona Siddiqui is a regular contributor to Thought for the Day, Sunday and The Moral Maze on BBC Radio 4, and to The Times, The Scotsman, The Guardian, Sunday Herald.
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Mona Siddiqui's father was a psychiatrist and moved to England to carry out post-graduate work in Cambridge.
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Mona Siddiqui's father spoke Arabic and worked in Saudi Arabia for a few years, where he was visited by Siddiqui at the age of about 18 together with her sister.
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Mona Siddiqui took her Bachelor of Arts in Arabic and French at the University of Leeds, and her Master of Arts in Middle-Eastern Studies and PhD in Classical Islamic Law at the University of Manchester.
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Mona Siddiqui served as a member of the Advisory Boards for Glasgow's Gallery of Modern Art, Scottish Asian Arts, IB Tauris Religious Studies project and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.
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Mona Siddiqui has worked at the University of Glasgow since 1996, and in 1998 founded the Centre for the Study of Islam.
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In 2011 Mona Siddiqui became the first person to hold a chair in Islamic and Interreligious Studies at the University of Edinburgh's School of Divinity.
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Mona Siddiqui was appointed Dean International for the Middle East.
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Mona Siddiqui is currently working on two further monographs with Yale University Press and IB Tauris.
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Mona Siddiqui has published articles and chapters on classical Islamic Law and writes and speaks frequently on Christian-Muslim issues.
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Mona Siddiqui is patron of The Feast, a pioneering youthwork charity which works for community cohesion between Christian and Muslim young people.
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Mona Siddiqui was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in March 2005 and of the Royal Society of Arts in October 2005.
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Mona Siddiqui was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to inter-faith relations.
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In January 2013, Mona Siddiqui was nominated for the Services to Education award at the British Muslim Awards.
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Mona Siddiqui was elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences - International Honorary Member.