![]() Farooq Leghari, the First Lady of Pakistan in the late 1990s. Her fame caught on as her study circles were regularly attended by the social elite in the capital, including Mrs. She taught at the International Islamic University Islamabad, while also conducting informal 'duroos' or religious study circles for women in the Pakistani capital Islamabad. She received her PhD in Hadith Sciences from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. She received her masters in Arabic at the Punjab University, Lahore, and was married shortly afterwards to Dr. Farhat as she is referred to by many of her students) was born in Sargodha, Punjab, and is the daughter of the (Late) Abdur Rehman Hashmi, another prominent Muslim scholar. She has had a profound impact on the religiosity and understanding of Islam by women since the 1990s when she started her program of Qur'anic education. Farhat Hashmi is one of the most influential contemporary Muslim scholars or Ulema particularly in Pakistan, the United Kingdom and the United States. ![]()
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