Shaykha Saleha Bukhari Islam is a Chaplain, Muslim scholar, Educator and Speaker, working with numerous grassroots organisations. She is one of the Chaplains working with the Canary Wharf Multi-Faith Chaplaincy team. She is a BSc Hons graduate in Computing and a Shariah graduate who completed her 6-year seminary studies as a mature student and specialised in Prophetic narrations.

Shaykha Saleha has recently completed a PCSP (Professional Counselling Skills Programme) and is a qualified SFBT (Solution Focus Based Therapist), which helps her to be holistic in her approach to understanding the world view of others.

In addition she is currently training as a female Islamic Jurist (Muftiyah).

Shaykha Saleha is a UK-based scholar who has studied with some of UK’s most-renowned scholars.

Some of her work includes the following:

• She made history as one of the first female scholars to appear on the live Q&A show IslamiQA on Islam Channel

• She’s one of the advising scholars at Islamic Relief UK and a Shariah Advisor/Counsellor with Nour Domestic Violence.

• She’s one of the judges on the Board of Scholars at The Muslim Law (Shariah) Council and supports other Shariah councils such as The Imam & MWAC.

• She has been an instructor in Islamic studies for over ten years and currently teaches Fiqh and advanced Qira’ah at Ebrahim College.