A muballigha is a trained female religious scholar within the Shia tradition. The role is older than this generation. There have been muballighāt in the hawzas of Najaf, Qom, Damascus, Beirut, and Detroit/Dearborn for decades. But the public visibility has grown sharply with the rise of women-specific community programmes and online platforms.
Why this matters to a fiqh app
Many of the questions Tuhr’s users will type into search are women-specific in a way that benefits from being answered by a woman who has formally studied them. The app cites primary sources from the marjas; for nuanced or emotionally weighted situations (postpartum bleeding, miscarriage, menopause), connecting users with a muballigha-led resource can be more useful than a fatwa quote.
We are in conversation with several muballighāt about content review for v1.1+. Until then, the site cites primary sources only and does not interpret rulings.