MacLean, Munirah: - Munirah Maclean has a Bachelors degree in comparative Religious Studies from Lancaster University, UK and a graduate diploma in Religious Education from Durham University, UK. She met Sheikh Nazim before he became a "spiritual celebrity" and spent time with his family in Cyprus and North America. She is one of the few women with Western education who were initiated into Sufi lineages. She is affiliated with the Naqshbandi, Shadhilli and Darqawi tariquats. She is an active member of the Muslim community of Montreal and has been a member of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women, and the Quebec Writers' Federation. She took courses at Concordia University, Montreal, in Creative Writing and is now part of the Eye of the Heart Center (eyeoftheheart.org) which is her writing community.

Her work has been published in Saima Hussein's anthology of Muslim women's writing, The Muslimah Who Fell to Earth (Mawenzi House, 2016) and has published book reviews (including in the New York Times) and articles for trade journals. Munirah's writing has been inspired by Sufism, Islam, Christianity, mindfulness, meditation, comparative religion, and psychology.

Munirah lives in Île-Perrot, Canada, near a forest with plants and birds, practising Sufi Islam, writing and contemplation.