School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
& Near and Middle East Section
Dr Mustafa Shah
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Key information
Key information
- Roles
- School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies
- Qualifications
- BA, PhD (London)
- Building
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office
- 434a
- Email address
- ms99@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone number
- 020 7898 4341
Biography
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.
Research interests
The early Arabic linguistic tradition; classical Islamic theology and jurisprudence
PhD Supervision
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Mahammed Bouabdallah | Muḥammad Ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī and His Kalām. |
| 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 |
| Dr Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour | |
| Yaser Almatrfi | Transformations in the Attitude of the Ahl al-Ḥadīth School towards the Engagement in Theological Polemics (Al Kalam) |
| Maria De Cillis | The Discourse of Compromise: Theoretical Constructs of Free Will and Predestination in the Works of Avicenna, Ghazālī and Ibn ʿArabī. 2010 |
| Dr Hannah Erlwein | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Publications
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