ABOUT RASHIDA
Born in Tanzania in 1942, she has a B.A. Hons. (Hull University, England), P.G.C.E. (Bristol University) and M.Ed. (McGill University). Her professional career spans Kenya and United Kingdom, first as a Secondary teacher, then as an Education Officer for the Birmingham Community Relations Council and as a Curriculum Planner for the Institute of Ismaili Studies and as a Religious Education Co-ordinator with ITREB, United Kingdom. In her voluntary capacity she has served for 3 years (1977-80) on the BBC’s Asian Programmes Advisory Committee. She has participated in programmes for BBC4 Radio and also
TV in campaigning for the teaching of Mother Tongue to immigrant children.
In retirement she works at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London as a freelance Intercultural Guide.
Her publications include the chapter on Islam in “Faiths for a Future” published by the Religious Education and Environment Programme (1998, Norwich) and
co-author of The Holy Ahl al-Bayt in the Prophetic Traditions (Karachi, 2000).
She has helped her husband, Dr. Faquir Muhammad Hunzai to translate into English some 60 works on the esoteric dimension of Islam written by ‘Allāmah Naṣīr Hunzai.