Dr. Zainab Al-Alwani has a Ph.D. in Usul Al-Fiqh from the International Islamic University, Malaysia, an M.A. in Islamic studies from the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences (GSISS), Leesburg, Virginia, and a B.A. in Islamic studies from Columbia University, New York. She made Islamic studies at Muhammad Ibn Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She teaches Islamic and Arabic studies at Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) and Johns Hopkins University (JHU). She is an Instructor of Fiqh at GSISS and a former researcher at the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), Herndon, Virginia.
