Nuriddeen Knight completed an MA in psychology with a focus on child and family from Columbia University. Alongside her academic degree, she studied traditional Islamic knowledge including Islamic law, theology, spirituality and prophetic biography with local scholars and in the majalis in Amman, Jordan. She is the author of 40 Hadith of Our Mother ‘Aisha, a collection of forty hadith narrated from the beloved sage, scholar, wife of the prophet, peace to him, Lady 'Aisha.