Umm Jamal ud-Din

Umm Jamal ud-Din (Mouna Parkin) is an Australian scholar and teacher based in Sydney, known by her kunya, who has taught Shariah sciences and the Quran to women for over twenty years and online since 2020. She is among the first qualified female scholars at the Australian National Imams Council (ANIC). ^{1 2}

She embraced Islam in 1989 — a podcast interview records that her parents know her by her birth name, Michelle, and that she is known as Mouna — and then spent more than twenty-five years seeking knowledge in Sydney and Saudi Arabia. Her qualifications are a Master's in Fiqh, a Bachelor in Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh, a BA in Languages majoring in Arabic, an ijazah in Tajweed in the recitation of Hafs, and an ijazah in Hadith; she has memorised the Quran. She studied traditional texts across fiqh, creed, Quran sciences, hadith and usul al-fiqh with scholars including Sa'd al-Khathlan, Khalid al-Muslih and Abdullah as-Silmi. ^{1 2}

In 2020 she began teaching her Shariah classes online, reaching women across Australia and beyond; her term programme, following the New South Wales school terms, teaches two subjects at a time — among them the fiqh of fasting, creed, the forty hadith of al-Nawawi and the rulings of marriage — alongside self-paced courses on Hajj and Umrah and on the commands of Surat al-Baqarah. She lectures at mosques and centres in Sydney and is invited interstate, and her recorded lectures circulate through lecture archives and her own platforms. She is a wife and mother of five. ^{1 2}