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Abdou Filali-Ansary
Professor
Philosophy; Islam and modernity; democratisation and civil society in the Middle East; Islam’s reformist traditions |
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Arskal Salim
Assistant Professor
Islamic legal theory, law and politics in Muslim Countries, Islam and human rights, legal anthropology |
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Farid Panjwani
Assistant Professor and Lead Faculty, Professional Programmes Unit
Education in contemporary Muslim contexts; modern South Asian history |
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Farouk Topan
Interim Director
Swahili literature; Islam in African literature; African poetry; identity in East Africa |
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Jeff Tan
Assistant Professor
Development studies; privatisation, entrepreneurship and innovation; late industrialisation; developmental state theories; governance and corruption; Malaysian political economy |
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Kathryn Spellman Poots
Assistant Professor
Gender and Islam in the Middle East and North Africa; the Iranian diaspora and transnational migration networks; Islam in Europe; gender and religious practices in contemporary Libyan society |
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Sarah Bowen Savant
Assistant Professor
Early Islam; the Study of Religion |
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| Visiting Lecturers |
Amine Cakir Surmeli
SOAS, University of London, UK |
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Azim Nanji
Stanford University, USA |
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Aziz al-Azmeh
Central European University, Hungary |
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David Mitchell
Birkbeck College, University of London, UK |
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David Taylor
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, UK |
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Hassan Rachik
Faculté des Sciences Juridiques Economiques et Sociales de Casablanca, Morocco |
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Iqbal Singh Sevea
Formerly of the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
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K. Humayun Ansari
Royal Holloway, University of London, UK |
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Karim Javan
Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK |
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Malak Shuqair
University of Westminster, UK |
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Nels Johnson
Formerly of Richmond University, USA |
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Robert Rollinger
Leopold Franzens University, Germany |
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Stefan Weber
Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon, Germany |
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Touhami Abdouli
University of Sousse, Tunisia
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Wadad Kadi
University of Chicago, USA |
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Wen-Ching Ouyang
SOAS, University of London, UK |
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Yusuf al-Abdallah
University of San’a, Yemen |
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