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Moncef Ben Abdeljelil, Professor and Head of Educational Programmes
Islamic thought and Arabic civilisations; Qur'anic exegesis; Islamic theology in the formative period; educational reforms in the Maghreb; Arabic literature and languages |
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Sarah Bowen Savant, Assistant Professor
Qur'anic exegesis and reception history; Hadith and historiography; religion and society; early Islamic Iran |
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Abdou Filali-Ansary, Professor and Director
Philosophy; Islam and modernity; democratisation and civil society in the Middle East; Islam’s reformist traditions |
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Arif Jamal, Senior Instructor (Part-Time)
Islamic law; religion, the state and the public sphere |
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Catherine Lee, Senior Instructor
Constructions, disseminations and peripheries of knowledges; dynamics of cultural interactions; orientalism; governance in higher education; research methodologies; academic practice; pedagogy |
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Farid Panjwani, Senior Instructor
Education in contemporary Muslim contexts; modern South Asian history |
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Modjtaba Sadria, Professor
Cultural studies; theories of modernity and Muslim societies; knowledge construction in contemporary Muslim societies; comparative cultural studies |
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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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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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Stefan Weber, Assistant Professor
Material history, Islamic art and history;
Residential and public architecture and urban organisation; Ottoman and Mamluk Middle East |
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| Visiting Lecturers |
Yusuf al-Abdallah
University of San’a, Yemen |
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Touhami Abdouli
University of Sousse, Tunisia
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K. Humayun Ansari
Royal Holloway, University of London, UK |
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Aziz al-Azmeh
Central European University, Hungary |
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Karim Javan
Institute of Ismaili Studies, UK |
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Nels Johnson
Formerly of Richmond University, USA
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Wadad Kadi
University of Chicago, USA |
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David Mitchell
Birkbeck College, University of London, UK |
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Azim Nanji
Stanford University, USA |
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Wen-Ching Ouyang
SOAS, University of London, UK |
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Hassan Rachik
Faculté des Sciences Juridiques Economiques et Sociales de Casablanca, Morocco |
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Robert Rollinger
Leopold Franzens University, Germany |
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Iqbal Singh Sevea
Formerly of the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
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Malak Shuqair
University of Westminster, UK |
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Amine Cakir Surmeli
SOAS, University of London, UK |
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David Taylor
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, UK |
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Farouk Topan
SOAS, University of London, UK |
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