She has a
PhD in Islamic Studies from
the University of Exeter on Shi'ia hadith about pre-Islamic female figures mentioned in the Qur'an. Her PhD thesis, submitted in 2015, is entitled "Negotiating Shīʿī Identity and Orthodoxy through Canonizing Ideologies about Women in Twelver Shīʿī Aḥādīth on Pre-Islamic Sacred History in the Qurʾān". == Career ==