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Lamya Kaddor (born 1978 in Ahlen) is a German scholar of Islamic studies of Syrian ancestry, a writer and founder and chairwoman of the Liberal-Islamic Association (LIB e.V.). She is known for introducing Islamic education in German in public schools in Germany. Together with Rabeya Müller she has published the first German Qur'an translation for children and adults: "Der Koran für Kinder und Erwachsene". Furthermore she is initiator and editor of the first German school book for Islamic education called "Saphir". Especially since 2014 she works on the subject of Salafism and Islamism. Five of her former students volunteered for jihad in Syria, which Lamya Kaddor perceived as a personal defeat.
She taught Islamic education in a secondary school in Dinslaken in North Rhine-Westphalia.