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Sherin Khankan



Sherin Khankan (born Ann Christine Khankan) is a Danish imam, author, and founder of the Mariam Mosque, a women-led mosque in Copenhagen. She is also an activist on Muslim issues including female integration and extremism. She has also founded the nonprofit Exitcircle to support women enduring psychological abuse.

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Challenging Religious & Patriarchal Structures | Sherin Khankan | TEDxLausanneWomen

Sherin speaks as she's a female Imam and shares the stories left untold about psychological violence and religious control, and how to break the circle of shame, loneliness and abuse.

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Sherin Khankan
2019
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Women Are the Future of Islam

In this revelatory book, imam Sherin Khankan addresses urgent contemporary issues such as modern women in Islam, radical Islamic groups, Islamic divorce, and fundamentalism, and she describes her own personal journey as a female Muslim activist.

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Sherin Khankan
2020
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The Rise of the Imama: Women-Led Mosques Are Growing

Negative stereotypes abound of how women are treated under Islam. But there's a new movement of women-led mosques who are challenging this, and making both Muslims and non-Muslims think differently about the faith.

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Lin Taylor
2018
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Inside Scandinavia's First Women-Only Mosque

The Danish capital Copenhagen is home to Scandinavia's first mosque run entirely by and for women. The Mariam mosque is headed by the feminist Sherin Khankan. Only women can be imams and take part in the Friday prayers.

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Sherin Khankan
2017
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Sherin Khankan - How Can We Talk About Islam?

For today's guest on ”How can we?” we have Denmark's, probably Scandinavia's, first female imam, Sherin Khankan. Navid and Sherin talks about feminism, equal rights and the 9 theses of Muslim reform.

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Sherin Khankan
2018
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Is Sherin Khankan the Future of Islam?

She is a controversial figure – not just as a female imam, but as a woman who has called for the reformation of Islam with a feminist agenda. Janice Turner meets Sherin Khankan at Europe’s first all-female mosque.

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Janice Turner
2018
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Female Imams in Copenhagen | DW English

Sherin Khankan is the daughter of a Christian and a Muslim. In 2016 she founded a mosque in central Copenhagen. She wants to challenge the view of Islam as a religion that hates non-believers and combat Islamophobia.

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2017
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Sherin Khankan: Can Islam Be a Feminist Religion?

Sherin Khankan is Denmark's first female imam and founder of the first mosque for women in Europe.

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Sherin Khankan
2018
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Wedding in the Mariam Mosque

Imam Sherin Khankan marrying a Norwegian couple from Sikh and Muslim families originating in India, Uganda and England March 22nd, 2019

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Sherin Khankan
2019
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Rayfest20 with Karen Georgia Thompson & Sherin Khankan

Rev. Dr Karen Georgia A. Thompson and Sherin Khankan reflect on what the Feminine means to them, how to cultivate authenticity, and the challenges they navigate as female faith leaders.

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Sherin Khankan
2021
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