Wise Women with Daisy Khan
by Dr. Daisy Khan
Subscribe to @WiseWomenWithDaisyKhan. Every week, we sit down for real conversations about faith, identity, and the stuff that actually matters.This is a space for unfiltered information about Islam and Muslims, straight up, no spin. And it's also a community where interfaith allies come together, struggling and striving to make the world a better place.When Taliban leaders sat across the table and Muslim women's rights hung in the balance, Dr. Daisy Khan didn't flinch. WISE Women is where faith gets real and women's voices get amplified.We talk about building bridges, not walls. About an Islam rooted in justice, equality, and acknowledging women's pivotal role. About the social issues that divide us, and how we might come together.This is for the curious. For people who don't always understand each other but want to. A place to belong when you're feeling lost.We believe women are civilization's heroes. They are not on the periphery, they are central to community building, to soci
Episodes
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A Christian's Journey To Understanding Islam
On Wise Women Daisy speaks with Catholic deacon and author George Dardess about misconceptions of Islam, Muslim-Christian relations, and how beauty can build bridges across faiths. He explains Islam’s root meaning as a free, willing yielding rather than coercion, connecting it to the Christian...
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Spiritual Gems of Islam
On Wise Women with Daisy Khan, Daisy speaks with Imam Jamal Rahman, author of Spiritual Gems of Islam, The Fragrance of Faith, Religion Gone Astray, and his latest, The Fragrance of the Quran—about misconceptions of Islam and the role of interfaith dialogue. Imam Rahman explains Islam as...
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Is Your Nikah Legal? What a religious-only marriage means in the UK
In this episode, Aina Khan OBE, an international family lawyer based in London who started the Register Our Marriage campaign, joins Dr. Daisy Khan to talk about religious-only marriages: couples who have a nikah but never register their marriage with the state. Aina, explains why England and…
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Missfit Muslim: A Story of Survival
In this episode, Daisy Khan speaks with the author of Missfit Muslim about survival, identity, faith, and the journey of challenging the expectations placed on Muslim and South Asian women. Missfit discusses the generational “checklist” centered on marriage, harsh beauty standards that reduce…
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Run! Sharia is Coming!
In this episode, Faizan Syed speaks about his humorous book Run: Sharia Is Coming and why satire helps counter fear-driven misunderstandings of Sharia. Syed explains Sharia as everyday religious practice, prayer, fasting, charity, honoring parents, fully compatible with U.S. civil law and the…
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How Prophet Muhammad Protected Religious Freedom: The Medina Constitution
In this episode, Daisy Khan speaks with Dr. John Andrew Morrow, author of the Covenants of the Prophet. They discuss what the Medina Constitution enabled religious communities to live together in 7th century Arabia. More importantly, it shows how Prophet established principles of religious…
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9/11 Was Our Tragedy Too A Mother's Fight To Honor Her Muslim Son's 9/11 Sacrifice
In this episode of Wise Women, Daisy Khan speaks with Talat Hamdani, whose son Salman was killed on 9/11 while responding to the attacks. Talat shares the story of Salman’s final moments and the painful search to find him, as his family held on to hope that he might still be alive. They also...
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Podcast Episode 46: Prophet Muhamad's Birthday
Daisy Khan marks the birthday of Prophet Muhammad, describing why he is considered history’s most influential figure, citing his 23-year transformation of seventh-century Arabia and Michael Hart’s ranking of him as number one. She frames him as a “mercy to the worlds,” whose guidance advanced…
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The Prophet’s Character | What the Quran Says About Prophet Muhammad
In this episode of Wise Women, Daisy Khan sits down with Imam Genghis Khan, author of The Definitive Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad, we look beyond familiar assumptions and examine how the Qur’an portrays him, as tender, compassionate, merciful, patient, approachable, family-oriented, and deeply...
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Christian & Muslim: What Do We Really Believe?
In this episode, Daisy Khan sits down with Catholic theologian and author Dr. Jordan Denari Duffner to explore why some Christians fear Islam, how Islamophobia persists, and what Christians can do to move beyond fear and engage Muslims as friends, neighbors, and partners in building a more just...
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Was Aisha 6 or 9 When She Got Married?
In this solo episode, Daisy Khan tackles one of the most damaging misconceptions about Prophet Muhammad: the claim that Aisha was six or nine years old when they married. This narrative has long been used to malign the Prophet's character, fuel Islamophobia, and even justify child marriage.…
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Time Hoppers: Muslim Heroes At Last
Welcome to another episode of Wise Women with Daisy Khan, where we explore the stories that shape who we are and the legacies that connect generations. What happens when history is no longer something confined to textbooks, but something young people can experience, imagine, and live? In this...
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What happens when a Princess slays her inner Darth Vader?
In this episode, Daisy sits down with Robert De Sena to talk about his book Chrysallia: The Princess of Possibility, a modern fairy tale where a young princess faces darkness not with a sword, but with intuition, love, and compassion. Robert shares how criticism of his earlier book The Dragon...
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Understanding Hadith: Prophet Muhammad Saying's
Dr. Aisha Musa discusses her book Hadith as Scripture, arguing that questioning Hadith authority is not new but dates to early Islam. She distinguishes Quranic revelation from Hadith and Sunnah, explains the Prophet’s reported prohibition on writing Hadith, and describes how Hadith were later...
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American Muslims Unveiled
Daisy Khan interviews Dr. Maytha Alhassen about the PBS series American Muslims: A History Revealed and why Muslim stories have been excluded from textbooks and mainstream media despite Muslims being part of America for over 200 years. Al Hassan shares her background as the daughter of Syrian and...
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What Can Birds Teach Us About Faith? Conversation with Perin Gurel
What if the birds around us were inviting us to see the world—and ourselves—in an entirely new way? Daisy Khan speaks with Perin Gurel, a University of Notre Dame professor, about her novel Laleh and The Language of the Birds and its roots in Attar’s Conference of the Birds, real ornithology, and...
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The Lady Imam: You Must Know
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Muslim Mom Boss
Daisy Khan interviews coach and author Rina Makhdoom (Rina Motivates) about redefining success beyond salary to include faith, family, and purpose. Rina describes feeling empty in a six-figure engineering career, then pivoting motherhood by building a home-based cosmetics business during commutes...
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Juneteenth: Muslim Liberation
Juneteenth, Islam, and the Legacy of Liberation | Wise Women with Daisy Khan ft. Quran Shakir Daisy Khan honors Juneteenth by connecting America’s emancipation to Islam’s early anti-enslavement teachings through stories of Barakah’s freedom, Sumayyah’s martyrdom, and Bilal’s liberation. With...
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Is Islam an American Religion?
A Texas governor branded a planned Muslim community a "Sharia city" and moved to block its construction. The residents owned the land. Zoning was approved. Every document the Constitution requires was already in order. What followed was the latest chapter in a quiet, decade-long legal war over...
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How Sharia Become A Scare Word?
What if everything you've been told about Sharia is wrong? In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, host Dr. Daisy Khan sits down with legal scholar and author Sumbul Ali-Karamali to dismantle one of the most weaponized words in American politics. Together, they trace how a 1,400-year-old...
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The Church Question: Why Anti-Muslim Bias Still Persists
A thousand years of anti-Muslim tropes didn't stay buried in medieval manuscripts. They followed Christians into modern sanctuaries, Sunday school classrooms, and even progressive interfaith circles. So what happens when two ordained Baptist pastors decide to trace the roots and rip them out? In...
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Is Domestic Violence Allowed in Islam? Spoiler: It's Not
In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, with host Dr. Daisy Khan, Dr. Denise Ziya Berte, Executive Director of the Peaceful Families Project and a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in trauma, torture, and interpersonal violence, dismantles the myth that domestic violence is a...
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Rethinking Islam Together : A Journey of Faith, Justice, and Reform
When a Grammy-connected Malaysian songwriter lost her music to religious gatekeepers who banned female voices and forbade instrumentation, she did not walk away from Islam. She walked straight into it, through theology, human rights law, and eventually the United Nations. In this episode of WISE...
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From Persia to Iran: Who the Persians Are and Where the Country Is Headed
Kamin Mohammadi is an author, journalist, broadcaster, editor and public speaker. Born in Iran, she and her family moved to the UK during the 1979 Iranian Revolution. She has written for the British and international press including The Times, the Financial Times, Harpers Bazaar, Marie Claire,...
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Ramadan: The Night Of Divine Unveiling Tagline - What Laylat ul-Qadr Means
There is a night hidden inside Ramadan with no fixed date. Muslims spend the entire month looking for it. That is entirely by design. Many fast and gain nothing but hunger and thirst. Intention is everything. Ramadan is not about food. Ramadan is the month that gives every Muslim the tools to…
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Who Erased Muslim Women From History? Scholarly Interpretation & Political turmoil
In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, host Daisy Khan sits with Professor Asma Afsaruddin, author of the Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women and a scholar of Middle Eastern languages and cultures at Indiana University Bloomington, who has spent decades reading the original Arabic sources...
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From Hollywood to Islam - A Jewish Women's Spiritual Journey
In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan with host Dr. Daisy Khan, Sheikha Maryam Kabeer, author of Journey Through 10,000 Veils, shares the extraordinary story of her lifelong spiritual unfolding - a journey that began in Hollywood and led her across continents in search of divine truth....
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What Ramadan Actually Means (Not What You Think)
In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan with host Dr. Daisy Khan, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf explains why Muslims fast and what Ramadan is meant to transform within the human being. The ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar marks the first revelation of the Quran, when the command to read...
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FGM Is Un-Islamic : What Communities Must Do to End It
A single question about faith and harm sent Dr. Daisy Khan into a years-long investigation of female genital mutilation. She discovered a hard truth that many still resist. FGM is not required by Islam and it violates the very principles the Quran was revealed to protect. In this episode of WISE...
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Dalia Mogahed Mapping the American Muslim Experience | Episode 1 | Muslim Women Series
A Black History Month book report changed everything. A Madison, Wisconsin, public school student discovered Malcolm X was Muslim and realized Islam predated her Egyptian family in America. That revelation transformed Dalia Mogahed into one of the most influential Muslim voices in the country. In...
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Targeted by Bullying : Silent Crises of Muslim Students
Muslim students experience bullying at nearly double the national rate. Between 27% and 50% of Muslim youth in K–12 report being targeted, compared to 19-20% nationally. In 25% of those cases, teachers are identified as the perpetrators. These are not isolated incidents. They reflect systemic...
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A Muslim strategist, a Jewish organizer, and the millennial mayor they propelled into office.
Twenty-five years after 9/11 devastated New York and brought backlash against Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians, New Yorkers elected Zohran Mamdani as the 112th mayor of the largest city in America. He's the youngest mayor in over a century, the first Muslim mayor, born in Africa to South Asian...
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Jesus in Islam and Christianity - Half the World Reveres Him, But Few Know Why
Jesus is revered by 4.6 billion people, representing 56% of the global population. Christians honor him as the Son of God. Muslims venerate him as a prophet born miraculously to the Virgin Mary. Yet most people have never explored how these two faiths view the same figure. In this episode of WISE...
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Mary in Islam and Christianity: The Woman Both Faiths Honor
Mary is mentioned more in the Quran than in the Bible. There's an entire chapter named for her in Islamic scripture. Both Christians and Muslims revere her as the ultimate example of purity, devotion, and surrender to God. Yet most people don't know the full scope of her story or how deeply she...
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The Truth Muslims Don’t Teach - Muslim Women’s Financial Rights Started in 7th Century
Muslim women were granted complete financial independence in the seventh century. They controlled their earnings, owned property, kept their inheritance, and received mahr as a binding marital gift. Centuries later, cultural practices buried most of these rights. In this episode of WISE Women…
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10 Muslim Women Rights
Muslim women are not oppressed by Islam. They were empowered by it 1400 years ago with rights that remain revolutionary even today. In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, Dr. Daisy Khan sets the record straight on what the Quran actually says about women versus what politicians and…
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Epstein File Hypocrisy - Double Standards in Girls’ Exploitation and Muslim Women
This is Wise Women with Daisy Khan – because every story matters. The journey ends not with what we acquire but with what we become. The qualities that sustain us through difficulty often become the very gifts we offer to the world. For more such inspiring stories and discussion, like, follow…
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How Far We've Come : A new chapter for American Muslim leadership
Zohran Mamdani just became mayor-elect of New York City at 34 years old. The working class elected him while establishment Democrats and Republicans tried to stop his campaign by telling voters a Muslim couldn't lead America's largest city. In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, Dr. Daisy...
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Mosques Are Not a Threat to the Neighborhood
A viral map shows 2,700 red dots across America, each representing a mosque, with captions screaming about Muslim takeover. But nobody mentions the tens of thousands of churches covering that same map. In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, Dr. Daisy Khan sits down with Dr. Kambiz...
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Is AI Humanity's Greatest Ally or Final Rival?
In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, host Daisy Khan sits down with celebrated software engineer and AI expert Waleed Kadous for a conversation that leaps beyond the usual tech talk. Discover how faith and innovation collide in surprising ways as Daisy unpacks Waleed’s journey from…
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Muslim Take-Over of American Culture - Is it integration or infiltration? | Part 2
StartFragment Did you know an NBA Hall of Famer played high-stakes games while fasting for Ramadan and still dominated the court? In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, Dr. Daisy Khan and co-host Susanna Keiserman expose what the mainstream media refuses to tell you about Muslim American...
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Muslim Take-Over of American Culture - Is it integration or infiltration?
StartFragment In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, Dr. Daisy Khan and her co-host Susanna Keiserman explore Muslim culture and integration in America, addressing misconceptions around cultural takeover. They explain what culture truly means and how Muslim Americans have contributed to…
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The Medieval Muslim Myth - The Stories Behind the Story
In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, host Dr. Daisy Khan sits down with international human rights lawyer Arsalan Iftikhar to dismantle one of Islamophobia's most persistent lies that Muslims are medieval and incompatible with Western democracy. Discover how this trope became a…
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The Other Side of 9/11 - How One Brother Turned Grief into Service
In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, Dr. Daisy Khan reunites with high school classmate Jay Winuk to explore how personal tragedy became national healing. Jay lost his firefighter brother Glenn in the South Tower while responding to save lives, while Dr. Khan experienced the sudden…
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Prophet Muhammad Birthday Sparks Global Debate Over History's Most Influential Leader
In this special episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, Dr. Daisy Khan tackles the controversial celebration of Prophet Muhammad's birthday (Mawlid al-Nabi) while declaring him the most influential person in human history. She challenges listeners to confront uncomfortable truths about Islamic...
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Miracle Recovery - How Near-Death Became Sacred Ground
In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, host Dr. Daisy Khan sits down with award-winning author Samina Ali to uncover her shocking medical crisis that nearly claimed her life during childbirth. After delivering her son, Samina suffered multiple strokes, heart attack, and complete organ...
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Unknown Islamic Stories of Love - Legends of Divine Love & Devotion
In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, host Dr. Daisy Khan sits down with filmmaker Alex Kronemer to explore his transformative PBS documentary that reveals Islam's hidden stories of love. Explore how Prophet Muhammad's relationship with his first wife Khadija shaped the foundation of...
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Unpacking Islamophobia: Why White Christian Nationalists Target Islam
In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, host Dr. Daisy Khan welcomes religious studies professor Todd Green to expose the calculated strategy behind white Christian nationalist attacks on Islam in America. Todd reveals the medieval origins of anti-Muslim sentiment, tracing modern...
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Islamophobia: Unmasked | Part 1: What You Don't Know About Jihad
In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, host Dr. Daisy Khan and human rights lawyer Qasim Rashid expose how Muslims have spent over two decades defending a peaceful faith practiced by 2 billion people. Discover the Cold War origins of Islam-terrorism associations, learn the true meaning of...
About this show
Subscribe to @WiseWomenWithDaisyKhan. Every week, we sit down for real conversations about faith, identity, and the stuff that actually matters.This is a space for unfiltered information about Islam and Muslims, straight up, no spin. And it's also a community where interfaith allies come together, struggling and striving to make the world a better place.When Taliban leaders sat across the table and Muslim women's rights hung in the balance, Dr. Daisy Khan didn't flinch. WISE Women is where faith gets real and women's voices get amplified.We talk about building bridges, not walls. About an Islam rooted in justice, equality, and acknowledging women's pivotal role. About the social issues that divide us, and how we might come together.This is for the curious. For people who don't always understand each other but want to. A place to belong when you're feeling lost.We believe women are civilization's heroes. They are not on the periphery, they are central to community building, to soci
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