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Associated Staff Members

Professor Dionisius A. Agius FBA

Professor Siam Bhayro

Dr Ahmed Dailami

Professor William Gallois

Research Staff

(Specialisms: Islamic law, gender, and intellectual history of modern Afghanistan)

(Specialisms: political theories and environmental ethics in Imami Shiʿite Islam, Muslim-Christian dialogue in the Middle East, Contemporary Eastern Christianity)

(Specialisms: Islamic law, gender, and intellectual history of modern Afghanistan)

Honorary Research Fellows

Dr Saud Al-Sarhan

Former Research Visiting and Honorary Fellows

(Specialisms: Islamic Intellectual history (modern and premodern), Islamic law and legal theory, kalÄåm-theology, and QurʾÄånic studies)

(Specialisms: Islamic law and legal theory, Classical Sufism, Quranic Exegesis, The history of the hadith corpus as a discipline and literary genre.)

Samer El-Karanshawy

Sara Forcella

(Specialisms: Islamic law and jurisprudence, fatwas ands their interpretation in the odern period, Islamic law in the Balkans)

Dr Luca Patrizi

(Specialisms: Islamic charities in the Europe, NGOs and International Development in the Muslim World, Islamic perspectives on Climate Change)

Dr Christophe (Pooya) Razavian
(Specialisms: Modern Islamic philosophy and ethics, contemporary Iranian thought, digital humanities)

(Specialisms: Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shi’ite Islam)

(Specialisms: Classical Islamic theology and law, Islamic legal theory, hadith and canonisation)

(Law and Learning in Imami Shiite Islam research fellow project; specialisms: early Islamic law and the formation of the law schools)

(Specialisms: Islamic mysticism, Sufism, religion and modernity, comparative mysticism, Persian literature)

(Specialisms: Modern Shiism, Clerical Authority, the theory and practice of taqlid)

Current PhD Students

Ahmed Aldhubayi

Mohammad Ashkanani, The Reception and Survival of the Poetry of Imruʾ al-Qays from the pre-Islamic to the Abbasid Era

Hassan Asiri, The Implicit Patterns in the Hijazi Sensual Ghazal Poetry during the Umayyad Era – A New Historicist Interpretation

Bryar Bajalan

Shahanaz Begum, From Language to Law – Islamic Legal Hermeneutics in the Formative Period

Alice van den Bosch, Creating the Female Martyr in Late Antique North Africa

Majida Deeb Ibrahim, Prominent Features and Translation Strategies of Arabic Feminist Literature: The case of Nawal el-Saadawi and Hanan al-Shaykh

Amir Mohammad Emami, What Has Athens to Do with Mecca and Medina? MÄ«rzÄå MahdÄ« Iá¹£fahÄånÄ« (d. 1365/1946) on God, the Human, and Their Relation

Uzair Ibrahim, Amid Worlds Seen and Unseen: The Imam, the Ghayb, and History in South Asian ShiÊ¿i Islam

Zahra Jafari, Treating á¸¤adÄ«th Contradictions by Means of Dissimulation in ShīʿīḤadÄ«th Tradition by YÅ«suf b. Aḥmad al-BaḥrÄånÄ«

, The Legal and Ethical Status of the Embryos in Islam

Arghavan Moharrami, The Winds of ZÄår: On Occult Performance among Black Indigenous Communities in the Persian Gulf

Abdulla Saad Moaswes

Majideh Qazizadeh, Islamicate Chess and Its Religious, Social and Scientific Contexts

Elias Ragi, Why Is Death, in Mikhail Naimy’s Literature, Looked at Conflictingly between Punishment and Reward?

Hasti Safavi, The Shrine Ensemble of Shaykh Safi al-Din Ardabili: An Islamic Philosophical Analysis

Mohammad-Payam Saadat Sarmadi, Devil’s Device: Islamic debates about legal analogy in the formative period

Dilshad Sharif

Catherine Tollerton, Is Piety Among Women Important in Understanding the Deoband Movement?

Ibrahim Urkac

Farhan Zaidi, The Ontology and Epistemology of Revelation in MullÄåá¹¢adrÄå 

Awarded PhD Students

Faris Abdel-Hadi,

Saliha Osama Farid Abdelkhalek, 

Francis Acquah, 

Babar Ahmed, 

Zubir Rasool Ahmed, 

Jaber Mohammed Alahmari, 

Usama Al-Atar, 

Ranyh Alatawi,  

Sayed Ismail Albehbehani, 

Khalid Abdulaziz Aldakheel, 

Ahmad Alfaraj,  The Influence of the Discovery of Oil on the Poetry of a Selection of Modern Blind Poets from the Gulf Region 

Saleh Owaid Alharbi, The Image of the West in Saudi poetry 1920-1990 

Ghazoan Ali, Substance and Things: Dualism and Unity in the Early Islamic Cultural Field 

Mehrdad Alipour, Negotiating Homosexuality in Contemporary ShÄ«Ê¿Ä« Islam: a legal-hermeneutical analysis of Twelver ImÄåmÄ« ShÄ«Ê¿Ä« Islamic sources 

Salih Maddah H Aljedani,  

Maryam Alkandari, 

Ahmed Mukhtar Tweirsh Al-Malik, 

Abdullah Alobaid, 

Abdullah Abdulrahman A Aloraini,

Reem Saud Al Rudainy, 

Saud Saleh Al Sarhan, 

Asma Abdulrahim Alshaiban, 

Yasmin Amin, 

Hassan Nasser Y Asiri,  

Mohammed Faia Asiri, 

Hamdullah Baycar, 

Ahab Bdaiwi, 

Hasan J E H M Beloushi, 

Yousef Bennaji, 

Mohamed Bin Ali, 

Mohd Khairul Anam Bin Che Mentri, 

Corrie Jonn Block, 

Amirah Bukhari, 

Michael Calabria, 

Leila Chamankhah, 

Rhiannon Conner, 

Minlib Dallh, 

Zamira Imatovna Dildorbekova, 

Fawzy Shaban Elgariani, 

Sherry Sayed Gad Elrab ElSayed, 

Miles Elwell, 

Zoheir Ali Esmail, 

Adelbert Finch, 

Robert Fuller, 

Massimiliano Fusari, 

Usman Ghani, 

Shayesteh Ghofrani, 

Rahim Gholami, 

John Goodman, 

Emad Hamdeh, 

Khalifa Ezzat Abuzeid Hassan, 

Omneya Nabil Muhammad Ibrahim, 

Amina Inloes, 

Tajul Islam,  

Jewel Hossain Jalil, 

Fouad Jabir Kadhem, 

Colleen Marie Keyes, 

Majid Montazer Mahdi, 

Hamid Reza Maghsoodi, 

Abdelghani Mimouni, 

Yasmin Hanani Mohd Safian, 

Walead Mohammed Mosaad, 

Rishad Raffi Motlani, 

Assmaa Mohamed Naguib, 

Namira Nahouza, 

Caroline Neumueller, 

Farag I.M. Omar, 

Sümeyye Parıldar, 

Davide Domenico Pettinato, 

Kumail Rajani, 

Christopher Pooya Razavian, 

Carla E Roland, 

Geoffrey Brandon Sage, 

Mohammed Sanad,

Zainab Sayed Zahed, 

Amir Shaharuddin, 

Ghulam Shamas ur Rehman, 

Linda Marianne Sijbrand, 

Bianka Ágnes Speidl, 

Khaled Troudi, 

Emine Enise Yakar, 

Sümeyra Yakar, 

Farah Zeb,