School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics & Near and Middle East Section

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School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies
Department
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics & Near and Middle East Section
Qualifications
BA, PhD (London)
Building
Russell Square: College Buildings
Office
434a
Email address
ms99@soas.ac.uk
Telephone number
020 7898 4341

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Mustafa Shah has been based in the Near and Middle East Department for many years. 

His research interests include early Islamic literary texts; the history of the Arabic linguistic tradition; the literature of qirāʾāt; classical exegesis; traditionalist theological discourses, hadith studies and law.  He has edited two major collections on exegesis and hadith and is currently preparing monographs on classical exegesis for (EUP) and a further one on the history of Arabic linguistic thought. 

In addition to compiling a biographical dictionary of classical Islamic civilization and culture he worked with Professor Abdel Haleem on the Oxford Handbook of Qur’anic Studies and is separately editing a handbook on hadith. Among his on-going projects are a translation and study of the medieval treatise on the principles of law by Ibn Qudāma, Rawḍat al-nāẓir, and an edition of an Ashʿarite theological treatise. He is also the editor of two book series, Themes in Qurʾānic Studies and Monographs in Arabic and Islamic Studies.

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The early Arabic linguistic tradition; classical Islamic theology and jurisprudence

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Mohammad Radhi Bin Mohammad Noh The Aḥwāl (States) and Maqāmāt (Stations) of the Divine Journey: An Analysis of Imām al-Ḥaddād’s Thoughts
Mohammad Radhi Bin Mohammad Noh The Aḥwāl (States) and Maqāmāt (Stations) of the Divine Journey: An Analysis of Imām al-Ḥaddād’s Thoughts
Maria De Cillis The Discourse of Compromise: Theoretical Constructs of Free Will and Predestination in the Works of Avicenna, Ghazālī and Ibn ʿArabī. 2010
Faizul Redhwan Karim Gender Relations in the Qur'ān
Ummugulsum Kurukol Riḥla: Interpreting the Islamic city through Muslim Travellers by revisiting the meaning of travel from the medieval period to early modern times.
Khadiga Musa A Critical Edition of a Twelve/Eighteenth Century Manuscript on Legal Maxims: ‘Umdat al-Nazir fi’l-Ashbāh wa’l-Naẓā`ir. 2010
Muhammad Nabil Charities in the Qurʾān and aḥādīth, and charitable work in multicultural societies
Fatima Rashid The Qurʾānic arrangement of sūras: Continuity and progression in language and themes
Zhicheng Ye Ma'rūf al-Karkhī and Islamic asceticism in the context of early Abbasid society

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Email
ms99@soas.ac.uk
Telephone
020 7898 4341

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