Jamila Hussain (1942,

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- 31 August 2016,

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) was a Muslim community leader in

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and an academic at the

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Biography

Born in 1942 in

Katoomba, New South Wales Katoomba is the main town and council seat of the City of Blue Mountains in New South Wales, Australia, and is the administrative centre of City of Blue Mountains, Blue Mountains City Council. Situated on the Great Western Highway and the Main ...

, she studied at the

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. She married a Chinese Muslim man and studied Shariah law in Malaysia. Widowed in 1994, she returned to Australia and pursued a career as community leader, commentator, and academic. She was the author of ''Islam, Its Law and Society.'' She died in 2016. Her public commentary on Islam, Sharia and its place in Australia appeared in ''

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'', SBS and in interviews on the

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