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The Secret Female Classes of Syria REVIVING Islam | Raz Aziz
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In this OnePath Podcast, Raz returns two years on to share 42 days studying in Syria with no program and no teachers lined up. She takes us inside a Hadith school founded, taught and attended entirely by women, a tradition that during the war survived in homes and hidden study circles, and tells the story of being told a class was cancelled, only to end up sitting front row beside the school’s founder.
We also talk honestly about imposter syndrome, why manners must come before knowledge, how consistency changed far more than her studies, five years since she put on the hijab, and why the Hadith rejection noise online looks very different once you have seen the people preserving it.
Raz Aziz is a Sydney-based Muslim influencer, youth worker and community advocate of Kurdish background. She studies Arabic and Hadith weekly with her teacher in Sydney and documented her time studying in Damascus through daily Arabic vlogs.