Noor-un-Nisaa Yusuf

Noor-un-Nisaa Yusuf is a British poet, author, editor, and artist born in South Africa and raised in the United Kingdom. At only fifteen years of age, over the course of twelve nights, she composed The Soliloquy of the Full Moon (2015), a thousand-line narrative epic in fully metered English verse that details the signs, wonders, and prophecies surrounding the birth of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, making it the first original English mawlid of its kind. She is the creator of the Adventures with the Awliya children's series, a spiritually rich adventure sequence drawing on the lives of Muslim mystics and saints, comprising Beyond the Forest (2019), Through the Blue Gate (2021), and Over Mist and Mountain (2024). She has also worked as a translator alongside her father Shaykh Dr Asim Yusuf, co-translating Contemplating the Qur'an (Ihsan Institute, 2017). Initiated into the Chishti Habibi Order under Hazrat Ghulam Muhyi al-Din Kazi, she has pursued a decade of traditional study in Islamic law, theology, metaphysics, and spirituality, receiving authorization to transmit the six canonical hadith works via elevated chains. Her literary work has earned her a three-times Young Muslim Writers Award.