Leila Azzam ليلى عزام

Leila Azzam is an Egyptian-born author and a graduate of the Faculty of Arts and Literature at Cairo University. Her family background is distinguished in Islamic scholarship and Arab intellectual life: she is the niece of the late Dr. Abdul Wahab Azzam, who served as rector of Cairo University and as founding rector of Riyadh University, and was a prominent Muslim writer. She is also the daughter-in-law of the late Dr. Abdur Rahman Azzam, the founder of the Arab League and author of The Eternal Message of Muhammad. Leila Azzam has lived with her husband Dr. Omar Azzam in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and France, and in Cambridge, England, where her four children received their education. She co-authored The Life of the Prophet Muhammad with Aisha Gouverneur, published by the Islamic Texts Society - a work aimed at providing an accessible and faithful account of the prophetic biography for English-speaking readers.