Islam Museum Islam Museum islam.museum
Search ⌕ ARENUR
Accessibility
Text size 100%

Saved on this device only — nothing is sent anywhere.

Aisha Lemu

عائشة ليمو

–

British author and religious educator, born at Poole, Dorset, in 1940 as Bridget Honey. She converted to Islam in 1961 while studying at SOAS in London, married the Nigerian scholar Ahmed Lemu in 1968 and moved to Nigeria, where she taught at Kano, Sokoto and Minna, co-founded the Islamic Educational Trust with her husband, and in 1985 founded the Federation of Muslim Women's Associations of Nigeria, serving as its first national Amirah. She wrote textbooks and many works on Islamic education and women in Islam. She died at Minna on 5 January 2019.

Depth

At a glance

Roles
writer · teacher
Region
West Africa & Sahel
Identifiers
Wikidata
Review

Life in time

1900192519501975200020252050
The Colonial Era · The Contemporary Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Abdelaziz Bouteflika · Abderrahmane Youssoufi · Abdul Qadeer Khan · Ahmed Lemu · Ali Hassan Mwinyi

Place in the story

    Unknown (unknown)

    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    Connections

    Explore the connections

    Spouse of
    Ahmed Lemu

    People and things also explored

    Ahmed Lemu

    Sources

    • Aisha Lemu — English Wikipedia
    • Aisha Lemu — Arabic Wikipedia
    • Aisha Lemu — Urdu Wikipedia
    • Aisha Lemu — Wikidata Q15781919
    Cite this page

    islam.museum contributors. “Aisha Lemu”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/aisha-lemu/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-26.

    Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

    Wing

    People

    Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story.     Related

    Ahmed Lemu

    Nigerian Muslim scholar, educationist and judge, born in the village of Lemu near Bida in Niger State in 1929 and died on 24 December 2020. He was educated at Lemu and Kano and then at SOAS, University of London; he taught Arabic and Islamic studies and rose through the education inspectorate, then became the first Sharia judge of the Sokoto Court of Appeal and Grand Khadi of the Niger State Sharia Court of Appeal. With his wife Aisha Lemu he founded the Islamic Educational Trust in 1969, and he received the King Faisal International Prize for service to Islam in 2014.