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	~~Sheeba Aslam~~ Fehmi has edited a political monthly ''Headline Plus'' and has been the [[managing editor]] of a daily newspaper and a magazine. She has also written in major dailies and magazines.<ref name="CounterCurrents" /> She has a regular column titled ''Gender Jihad'' since February 2009. This column is published monthly in "Hans"; a Hindi literary magazine.<ref name="wisemuslimwomen1" />		Fehmi has edited a political monthly ''Headline Plus'' and has been the [[managing editor]] of a daily newspaper and a magazine. She has also written in major dailies and magazines.<ref name="CounterCurrents" /> She has a regular column titled ''Gender Jihad'' since February 2009. This column is published monthly in "[[The Hans India\|Hans]]"; a Hindi literary magazine.<ref name="wisemuslimwomen1" />

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	Sheeba Aslam Fehmi was born in a middle-class family in [[North India]]. Her parents had keen interest in [[Indian politics]]. Her father served in [[Ministry of Defence (India)\|Ministry of Defense]] while her mother was a [[teacher]] by profession and both her parents were staunch [[communist]]s. As a child, Sheeba was more inclined towards documentaries rather than regular entertainment. At a young age, she used to watch documentaries about people like [[Ho Chi Minh]], [[Fidel Castro]], [[Che Guevara]] and [[Vietnam War]].<ref name="wisemuslimwomen1"/><ref name=CounterCurrents/>		Sheeba Aslam Fehmi was born in a middle-class family in the city of [[Kanpur]] in [[North India]]. Her parents had keen interest in [[Indian politics]]. Her father served in [[Ministry of Defence (India)\|Ministry of Defense]] while her mother was a [[teacher]] by profession and both her parents were staunch [[communist]]s as Kanpur was once an strong centre of communist activities, also the place where [[Communist Party of India]] came into existence. As a child, Sheeba was more inclined towards documentaries rather than regular entertainment. At a young age, she used to watch documentaries about people like [[Ho Chi Minh]], [[Fidel Castro]], [[Che Guevara]] and [[Vietnam War]].<ref name="wisemuslimwomen1"/><ref name=CounterCurrents/>

	Her parents' divorce and her "lack of knowledge about rights that Muslim women have in Islam" aspired her to be an activist. She now feels that the divorce between her parents could have been prevented, if her mother and father both had fully-known her rights as a woman under Islamic law – her rights to have her own career, to earn a living for herself.<ref name="wisemuslimwomen1"/><ref name=CounterCurrents/>		Her parents' divorce and her "lack of knowledge about rights that Muslim women have in Islam" aspired her to be an activist. She now feels that the divorce between her parents could have been prevented, if her mother and father both had fully-known her rights as a woman under Islamic law – her rights to have her own career, to earn a living for herself.<ref name="wisemuslimwomen1"/><ref name=CounterCurrents/>

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'''Sheeba Aslam Fehmi''' is a feminist writer and [[journalist]] in India, and one of the Indian Muslim women scholars who write on Islam among other issues.

==Career==
Sheeba Aslam Fehmi has edited a political monthly ''Headline Plus'' and has been the [[managing editor]] of a daily newspaper and a magazine. She has also written in major dailies and magazines.<ref name="CounterCurrents" /> She has a regular column titled ''Gender Jihad'' since February 2009. This column is published monthly in "Hans"; a Hindi literary magazine.<ref name="wisemuslimwomen1" />

==Belief==
"My reading of the Quran leads me to believe that Islam stands for justice, that God (Allah), as described in the Quran, is 'Perfect Justice'. I can find no verse in the Quran that is anti-women. From this I conclude that Islam cannot be anti-women". Sheeba believes that women's lack of knowledge about Islam places them at a disadvantage against men.<ref name="wisemuslimwomen1">{{cite journal|title=Profile of Sheeba Aslam Fehmi|url=http://www.wisemuslimwomen.org/muslim-woman/sheeba-aslam-fehmi/|magazine=Women's Islamic Initiative In Spirituality & Equality website|accessdate=18 April 2020}}</ref>

==Early life==
Sheeba Aslam Fehmi was born in a middle-class family in [[North India]]. Her parents had keen interest in [[Indian politics]]. Her father served in [[Ministry of Defence (India)|Ministry of Defense]] while her mother was a [[teacher]] by profession and both her parents were staunch [[communist]]s. As a child, Sheeba was more inclined towards documentaries rather than regular entertainment. At a young age, she used to watch documentaries about people like [[Ho Chi Minh]], [[Fidel Castro]], [[Che Guevara]] and [[Vietnam War]].<ref name="wisemuslimwomen1"/><ref name=CounterCurrents/>

Her parents' divorce and her "lack of knowledge about rights that Muslim women have in Islam" aspired her to be an activist. She now feels that the divorce between her parents could have been prevented, if her mother and father both had fully-known her rights as a woman under Islamic law – her rights to have her own career, to earn a living for herself.<ref name="wisemuslimwomen1"/><ref name=CounterCurrents/>

==Inspiration==
Sheeba Fehmi was greatly inspired by her mother’s life experiences. She believed that her mother's story was similar to that of many women in male dominated societies in the [[Middle East]] and [[South Asia]]. She also believed that many religious leaders deform the teachings of [[Islam]] to suit themselves.<ref name="wisemuslimwomen1"/> She feels that secular feminists are wrong in denouncing all religions as being anti-women's rights.<ref name="wisemuslimwomen1" /><ref name="CounterCurrents">{{cite web |url=https://www.countercurrents.org/sikand110411.htm |author=Yoginder Sikand |date=11 April 2011 |title=Sheeba Aslam Fehmi On Islamic Feminism |website=Counter Currents.org website |accessdate=18 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528044658/http://www.countercurrents.org/sikand110411.htm |archive-date=28 May 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Educational background==
Sheeba Fehmi did her [[Master of Philosophy]] from the Centre for Political Studies at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]], [[New Delhi]]. Her thesis was on "Human Rights And Multiculturalism: A Study of Legal Cases Involving Muslim Women".<ref name=CounterCurrents/>

Sheeba Fehmi is studying to be a [[Doctor of Philosophy]] at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]].<ref name="wisemuslimwomen1"/>

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