Atieh Hassani

Ayatollah Atieh Hassani is a scholar of Shia-Islamic jurisprudence, interfaith-intercultural researcher, and Muslim women's rights activist. Born in 1961, Hassani is the founder of the International Fatimah Society, chairwoman of the NGO Openview International, and writer, editor, and director of the Fatimi Voice blog, and You Tube-based Faimah TV, about Muslim women's life and as platforms of community cohesion.
Biography
Hassani was born in Iran, but has lived, studied and worked in Turkey, Finland, France and the UK.
Since 1979, Hassani, has published over 50 papers in Middle East, Iranian and international journals and online social medias. She has advised many PhD, MA, BA and Islamic jurisprudence students.
Work on English-Islam Heritage
Over the past 30 years Hassani has turned to discover the cultural, economical and political roots of Islamic state of prophet Muhammad, his family and the Emperor Offa of Mercia during and after eighth century, the period of commonly known by Islamic historians as the Elegant Age of the relationship between English and Islamic worlds and how the new Emperor of England had invented a new power-strategy to go over the head of his central European revivals.

Hassani’s work on the specific relationship between Offa and Mohammedian statesmen has earned her strong reputation and Iranian honorary doctorate in 2013.
Hassani has researched more than 3000 manuscripts on English-Islamic Heritage, mainly unpublished Arabic, Persian, Turkish hand writings. She is considered her thirty years delve into Middle Eastern personal and public archives, essential to learn about the role and deep impact of English political inventions in today’s world. She is a highly interested speaker on the English contributions to Medieval Middle East to building the foundations of modern ambassadorial relationship with Europe and Christianity. The initiative have been successful in promoting greater cohesion, respect and understanding between of imperial realms as well as faiths and cultures. Emperor Offa of Mercia's major value was promoting the concept of a positive and constructive personal channel with Islamic statesmen, as an alternative to Islam’s isolationism and extremism. Offa of Mercia more particularly was facilitating a greater understanding of the positive role of women in the Muslim society with giving his spouse and daughter to foster good and golden coins relationships with 'hidden part' of Sultans life (harems) completely new to any Roman tradition of Overseas Diplomacy.
Politics
Hassani is an activist woman protester against the massacre of Syrian non-Sunni people and the demolition of the Shrine of Zaynab bint Ali by Al-Qaeda. She also criticized Yusuf al-Qaradawi's anti-Shia preaching and his sectarian fatwa against Alawites and including but not limited to Bashar al-Assad's government.
Awards
In 2011, Atieh Hassani received the WIIS award for excellence in English-Islam and Iran history and additionally in 2013 she was awarded with the Fellowship of the GBI-Guild, the oldest British-Iranian people's friendship and interaction society founded in about 1900.
During 2011 and 2013 she was named amongst the most influential Muslims in the Great Britain.

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