Arif Jamal, Senior Instructor obtained his BA from McGill University before completing his LLB at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law after which he was called to the Bar of British Columbia. In 1994 he joined the Institute of Ismaili Studies’ (IIS) graduate programme in Islamic Studies and Humanities, which he completed by reading for an LLM degree, with a focus on Islamic Studies and the Humanities at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He later joined the IIS as research associate and after that worked as unit coordinator in the Director’s office.

From 2003 to 2004 he was a visiting researcher with the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. He has also been a tutor in law at University College London (UCL) and the School of Law at SOAS. His publications have appeared in the Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law and he has a chapter appearing in a forthcoming book on Muslims and the crisis of secularism. Currently Arif is undertaking doctoral work on the relationship between religion, the state and the public sphere in Muslim contexts in the Faculty of Laws at UCL.

Contact Details

Email address: arif.jamal@aku.edu
Telephone: 020 7907 1069

Publications (since joining AKU-ISMC)

Chapters in Books

• Jamal, Arif, (forthcoming 2008) 'Moving out of Kazanistan: Liberal theory and Muslim contexts', Marranci, G. (ed.) Muslims, Communities and the Crisis of Secularism

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

• Jamal, Arif, (2002) 'Models of Pluralistic Discourse: a Consideration of the Ismaili Muslim Conciliation and Arbitration Boards in Kenya', Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, vol. 8
• Jamal, Arif, (2001) 'Principles in the Development of Ismaili Law', Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, vol. 7

Magazine Article

• Jamal, Arif, (December 2000), 'Relating Law and Ethics', The Ismaili UK, vol. 39, July 2000, pp. 10-11.

Workshop/Seminar Participation (Invited Speaker)

• ‘Terms of Engagement: Religion, the Public Square and Law' a lecture presented through the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School, March 2004.
• ‘Justice, Culture and ‘Encultured’ Justice: ADR and the Regulation of Family Law in Ismaili Muslim Communities in East Africa', Centre for Contemporary Islam (University of Cape Town) Third Symposium of the Islamic Law in Africa Project, Cape Town, March 2002 (subsequently revised into 2002 publication)
• ‘How should Europe’s relations with the Islamic world develop?’, presentation made at the Wilton Park British-German Forum 2002 (sponsored by the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, UK)
• ‘Relating Law and Ethics’, Conference on ‘Islam and Ethics’ in Dushanbe & Khorog, Tajikistan, May 2001