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Rahma with RoseLiving Through Grief and Grace from Damascus to Tennessee: A Conversation with Ustadha Zaynab Mansour AnsariSend us a textIn this deeply moving episode, Rose speaks with Ustadha Zaynab Ansari about her spiritual awakening as a young American Muslim woman studying in Damascus in the 1990s, her journey through traditional scholarship, and the personal trials that reshaped her faith, including widowhood and becoming a single mother overnight. Zaynab explores how Islam’s spiritual core can offer healing in times of grief, the role of women scholars, and the need for honest community accountability in the face of abuse. Zaynab’s voice is one of fierce rahma-compassion, honesty, and grace as she reflects on h...
2025-07-041h 06
ImanWire PodcastEp. 81: Slavery and Islam Part 4: Slave-Concubinage - Zaynab Ansari"Those whom your right hands possess", a Qur'anic descriptor for female slaves, can evoke a number of charged emotions and thoughts that can be difficult to reconcile with our modern sensibilities today. What does slave-concubinage mean? How was it understood in the formative years of Islam?
In the final part of our series on slavery, Ustadha Zaynab Ansari, a resident scholar and instructor at Tayseer Seminary, reflects on this challenging topic.
CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Introduction
1:44 - A Review Culture: Framing the Discussion
3:44 - An Overview of Slavery and Islam
6:50 - Those Whom Your Right Hands Possess: An Ethical Framework
23:52 - Insights...
2024-09-091h 44
Digital Islamic ReminderJuz 29: Ust. Zaynab Ansari | Qur’an 30 for 30 S4Juz 29: Ust. Zaynab Ansari | Qur’an 30 for 30 S4
2024-04-0844 min
Qur'an 30 for 30, a Yaqeen SeriesJuz 8: Contentment, Clarity, and Divine Guidance | Ustadha Zaynab Ansari | Season 5Why are some people saved while others aren't? What does divine guidance truly mean? Why is contentment and clarity important for da'wah?Join Ustadha Zaynab Ansari with hosts Dr. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Abdullah Oduro as they reflect on Juz 8 of the Qur'an, focusing on Surah al-An'am verses 111, 144, and 153. In this session, they discuss concerns about predestination, salvation, what guidance feels like, and finding peace in the fact that God is All-Knowing.Download our FREE eBook: “Qur’an 30 for 30: Thematic Tafsir” here: https://yqn.io/6853a9
2024-03-1827 min
Talking With Teachers With Dr. Abdullah bin Hamid AliTalking With Teachers Podcast-Episode Seven-Zaynab Ansari
In this episode of Talking With Teachers, Ustadha Zaynab Ansari emphasizes the importance of Muslims being aware of Muslim women teachers in our Islamic tradition. Ustadha Zaynab talks briefly about one of the great scholars of the hadith science, Aisha Ba'uniyyah.
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2024-03-0339 min
MuslimMattersGaza's Strength, Our Weakness: Spirituality During GenocideShaykha Zaynab Ansari provides insight and guidance on how Muslims can spiritually and emotionally process the genocide in Gaza, understanding Qadaa' and Qadr, and explaining what it means to be patient but not passive in the face of injustice.
2024-02-2742 min
2023-06-2651 min
Qur'an 30 for 30, a Yaqeen SeriesJuz 29: Ust. Zaynab Ansari | Qur’an 30 for 30 S4In the twenty-ninth episode of this Ramadan series, Dr. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Abdullah Oduro, joined by special guest Ust. Zaynab Ansari, explore gems from the twenty-ninth juz of the Holy Qur’an.Download our FREE eBook "Qur’an 30for30: Judgment Day" here.
2023-04-2044 min
Qur'an 30 for 30, a Yaqeen SeriesJuz' 17 with Ustadha Zaynab Ansari in Qur'an 30 for 30 - Season 3In episode 17 of this Ramadan series, Dr. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Abdullah Oduro, joined by special guest Ustadha Zaynab Ansari, explore the gems of Juz’ 17 of the Holy Quran.Don't forget to think of your akhirah and support free resources like this. Automate your donation across the last ten nights of Ramadan here!
2022-04-1844 min
Hurma Project PodcastTamara Gray & Zaynab Ansari: Teacher-Student Relationships, Part 2A continuation of our conversation with Shaykha Dr. Tamara Gray, Founder and Director of Rabata, and Ustadha Zaynab Ansari, Scholar-in-Residence at Tayseer Seminary.
2022-03-0155 minHurma Project PodcastTamara Gray & Zaynab Ansari: Teacher-Student Relationships, Part 1Shaykha Dr. Tamara Gray, Founder and Director of Rabata, and Ustadha Zaynab Ansari, Scholar-in-Residence at Tayseer Seminary, discuss the hallmarks of healthy teacher-student and mureed-shaykh relationships.
2022-02-2246 min
DoubleTake, a Yaqeen podcast"Is Islam a Man’s Religion?" with Ust. Zaynab Ansari | Season 2 Episode 9Islam was revolutionary at preserving and elevating the rights of women when it was revealed over 1400 years ago, but today’s challenges and sensibilities may cause us to wonder if that is still the case. However, many of our concerns have been addressed as early as the time of the Prophet (S), when female companions asked him about differences in the way men and women were addressed in the Qur’an. Are the concerns of women secondary to the concerns of men in Islam? How can we make sense of Qur’an verses and Hadith narrations that challen...
2021-12-1539 min2021-10-1102 min
ImanWire PodcastEp. 69: Adab in War Zones: Muslims in Social Media - Zaynab Ansari, Mohamed Ghilan & Dawud WalidZaynab Ansari, Mohamed Ghilan and Dawud Walid convene to consider the role of Muslims in an increasingly fractured social media landscape, the ethics of disagreement, and refining adab (conduct and manners) in our interactions.
2021-09-191h 02
2021-05-1039 min
Qur'an 30 for 30, a Yaqeen SeriesJuz' 27 with Ust. Zaynab Ansari - Qur'an 30 for 30 | Season 2The surahs of the 27th juz contain powerful verses and symbols that inspire awe, from the many signs of Allah in nature to the majestic nature of the angels and the mystery of qadr. These themes are timelessly inspiring, so much so that at the time of their revelation, even the most stubborn of the disbelievers in Makkah were compelled to bow down in acknowledgement of God. Along with Dr. Omar Suleiman and Sh. Abdullah Oduro, Ustadha Zaynab Ansari brings her insights and reflections to this episode. Download our FREE eBook “Qur’an 30for30: The Companion Reader” here.
2021-05-0939 min
Ramadan 2020 with JHUMARamadan 2020 with JHUMA - Ustadha Zaynab Ansari - Keys to the Journey to Allah - May 12, 2020Zaynab Ansari spent a decade studying Farsi, Arabic, and traditional Islam in the Middle East,graduating from a seminary in Damascus, and spending time in the land of her ancestors. Shealso took degrees in history and Middle Eastern Studies at Georgia State University, where shecollected oral histories from Atlanta’s historic African-American Muslim community for herresearch.Zaynab Ansari serves as an instructor, board member, and scholar-in-residence at TayseerSeminary, where she teaches classes on Islamic law, Qur’anic studies, Prophetic biography,American Muslim history, and women in Islam. She is a...
2020-05-131h 04
ImanWire PodcastEp. 45: Misogyny, Racism & Classical Texts - Zaynab AnsariComing across a statement from the pre-modern scholarly tradition that would be considered misogynistic or racist today can be a jarring, troubling experience. How should we engage such texts and how are we to consider such statements in our overall understanding of Islam today? Ustadha Zaynab Ansari returns to the podcast to discuss the approach we should take when confronted with such challenging or problematic statements from classical scholars of the past.
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2019-07-221h 01
The Mad MamluksEP 098: Where Eagles Dare: The Female Scholars | Ustadha Zaynab AnsariMahin and Ismail talk to Ustadha Zaynab Ansari at Texas Dawah Convention. Zaynab Ansari spent a decade studying Farsi, Arabic, and traditional Islam, sitting with male and female scholars in seminaries in the Middle East, including traditional scholars in Damascus in the 1990s. Upon her return to the United States, she earned degrees in history and Middle Eastern Studies from Georgia State University. Since 2014, Zaynab Ansari has served as a scholar-in-residence for Tayseer Foundation, offering enrichment courses and halaqahs to women and youth in the Muslim Community of Knoxville, and working on interfaith dialogue. She...
2018-02-1256 min
The Mad MamluksEP 098: Where Eagles Dare: The Female Scholars | Ustadha Zaynab AnsariMahin and Ismail talk to Ustadha Zaynab Ansari at Texas Dawah Convention. Zaynab Ansari spent a decade studying Farsi, Arabic, and traditional Islam, sitting with male and female scholars in seminaries in the Middle East, including traditional scholars in Damascus in the 1990s. Upon her return to the United States, she earned degrees in history and Middle Eastern Studies from Georgia State University. Since 2014, Zaynab Ansari has served as a scholar-in-residence for Tayseer Foundation, offering enrichment courses and halaqahs to women and youth in the Muslim Community of Knoxville, and working on interfaith dialogue. She...
2018-02-1256 minImanWire PodcastEp. 25: Gender Interaction After #MeToo - Zaynab Mansour AnsariUstadha Zaynab Mansour Ansari from Tayseer Seminary returns to the podcast and shares her thoughts on gender relations in the wake of both the fallout from #MeToo and recent events of spiritual abuse.
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2018-02-0451 minImanWire PodcastEp. 12: Don't Be A Victim - Anse Tamara Gray & Zaynab AnsariAnti-Muslim racism can take a toll, especially among youth and others in the community who may feel the most targeted. To feel like a victim constantly under attack, however, poses significant dangers to our spiritual well-being. For some, this creates a hyper-reactivity that blames Islamophobia for all the challenges they face, even leading a small number to exaggerate or falsify claims of harassment. For the majority of others, their fears can either lead them to try to appear less Muslim or live as Muslims unknowingly crippled by their feelings of victimization and inferiority.
In this episode, Anse Tamara Gray and...
2017-04-0246 minImanWire PodcastEp. 10: Empowering Women's Voices & Scholarship - Anse Tamara Gray & Zaynab AnsariWomen have always played important roles in Islamic learning, but their path to scholarship is not without its unique challenges. In part 1 of their conversation, Shaykha Tamara Gray of Rabata and Ustadha Zaynab Ansari of Tayseer Seminary discuss the future of female scholarship, facing misogyny in the community, and how to facilitate more open platforms for feminine voices in the teaching of sacred knowledge. The two scholars consider the role of feminism, the need for gender-equitable spiritual spaces and discourse, and other contemporary issues.
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2017-02-271h 05
Seerah - Life of the ProphetThe Sīrah Podcast: EP36 – The Prophet Recruits Talented Young People2-19-2013
Episode 36: The Prophet Recruits Talented Young People
Welcome to Seerah Pearls, which aims to highlight some tantalising learning points from each episode of the Seerah- Life of the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wasallam). This session talks about the early Muslim community. Of note, many of the young converts were from the younger generation.
Al-Zubayr ibn Al-Awwam
He was the paternal cousin of the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wasallam)through his aunt Saffiya. His son was Abdullah ibn Zubair.
Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf
His mo...
2013-02-2057 minThe Sīrah Podcast - Life of the ProphetThe Sīrah Podcast: EP36 – The Prophet Recruits Talented Young People2-19-2013
Episode 36: The Prophet Recruits Talented Young People
Welcome to Seerah Pearls, which aims to highlight some tantalising learning points from each episode of the Seerah- Life of the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wasallam). This session talks about the early Muslim community. Of note, many of the young converts were from the younger generation.
Al-Zubayr ibn Al-Awwam
He was the paternal cousin of the Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wasallam)through his aunt Saffiya. His son was Abdullah ibn Zubair.
Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf
His mo...
2013-02-2057 min