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Dr Mansur Ali
PhD, FHEA
Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies
School of History, Archaeology and Religion
Overview
Research interests
I have two main research interests: Hadith Studies and Practical Theology. By Practical Theology, I mean making sense of the world we live in through the lens of Islamic theology (Ilm al-Kalam). How can Muslims have a meaningful religious experience in a predominantly secular society? What psychological impact has modernity has had on the lives of Muslims in the West? An offshoot of this is to look at religious leadership (chaplains, imams) in the British Muslim community. Furthermore, using tools developed in Ilm al-Kalam as well as Usul al-Fiqh, I research modern issues such as Islamic bio-medical ethics with a particular focus currently on Islam and organ donation.
I am willing to supervise any PhD theses on: Hadith, Muslim chaplaincy, Islamic leadership, Islamic bio-medical ethics.
Research projects
'The Medieval Future of Sleep: Trialling lessons from the past for enhancing sleep, reducing disease, and improving mental health in post-Covid Wales,’ with Dr Megan Leitch. Funded by the Welsh Crucible Seedcorn funding scheme.
'Understanding British Muslim Religious Professionals' Perception of the Organ Donation Process' Principle Investigator, with Co-Investigator Dr Mohammed Azim Ahmed. Funded by the Centre for Islamic Medicine.
“Our Bodies Belong to God: The Human Transplantation Act 2013 and Cardiff Muslims’ response to it.” Cardiff University Engagement and Impact funding.
Muslim Chaplaincy Project (AHRC/ESRC)
Public-facing Publications
2017: The Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence (Usul Ash-Shashi), translation and commentary by Mansur Ali, (London: Turath Publishing, 201i)
2015: Review: Refuting ISIS: A Rebuttal of Its Religious and Ideological Foundations, by Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi, (Sacred Knowledge press, 2015), £6.95, 2015, http://muslimview.co.uk/culture/review-refuting-isis-a-rebuttal-of-its-religious-and-ideological-foundations/
2014: Al-Arba'in of Ahmad Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani - Forty Hadiths from Forty Companions Through Forty Shuyukh, edited and annotated by Mansur Ali, (London: Turath Publishing, 2014)
2014: Qawa'id Fi Ulum al-Hadith (Principles of Hadith), edited and annotated by Mansur Ali and Shamsudduha, (London: Turath Publishing, 2014)
2012: ‘They Are Your Garments And You Are Theirs: Marital Relation and the Metaphor of the Garment Reflections on surat –al-Baqara 2:187’ 2012, http://mansys.blogspot.co.uk/
Impact Activities
- https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/research/impact-and-innovation/research-impact/informing-muslims-about-organ-donation
- NHSBT: Organ donation and Islam
- https://youtu.be/a8auL-vu-Qk?list=PLjl4wHu2TagPtfYFYgym-5C0QoPJMAita
- https://youtu.be/HQyQuXg5ufY?list=PLjl4wHu2TagPtfYFYgym-5C0QoPJMAita
- NHSBT organ donation strategy panel
- Frequent show on British Muslim TV (Ask the Alim show)
- Friday imam in local mosque in Cardiff, Dar ul-Isra
- Muslim Council of Wales, iLead leadership training instructor
- Oxford, Cambridge and RSA (OCR) exam board: Religious studies consultant
- Expert report writer for court cases
- Consultant BBC Bitesize GCSE Religious Studies (Wales)
Publication
2024
- Gilliat-Ray, S., Schmid, H. and Ali, M. M. 2024. Mapping Muslim chaplaincy: An analytic review of publications between 1989 and 2023. Journal of Muslims in Europe (10.1163/22117954-bja10102)
2023
- Ali, M. 2023. The human being as the mystery of Kun fa Kān: An engagement with Shoaib Ahmed Malik’s Islam and Evolution: Al-Ghazālī and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm. Theology and Science 21(4), pp. 732-744. (10.1080/14746700.2023.2255954)
- Ali, M. 2023. [Book Review] Rebellious wives, neglectful husbands: controversies in modern Qur’anic commentaries, by Hadia Mubarak (oxford university press, 2022). Muslim World Book Review 43(4), pp. 25-29.
- Ali, M., Maravia, U. and Padela, A. 2023. Religious viewpoints: Sunni Islam. In: Hurst, D. J., Padilla, L. and Paris, W. D. eds. Xenotransplantation: Ethical, Regulatory, and Social Aspects., Vol. 1. Cham: Springer, pp. 163-177., (10.1007/978-3-031-29071-8_14)
- Ali, M. 2023. Islam and Biomedical Research Ethics by Mehrunisha Suleman (London: Routledge, 2021) [Book Review]. Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice 19(2), pp. 193-195.
- Ali, M. 2023. [Book Review] The Bruce B. Lawrence reader: Islam beyond borders. Edited and with an introduction by Ali Altaf Mian. Muslim World Book Review 43(3), pp. 31-37.
2022
- Ali, A., Randhawa, G. and Ali, M. 2022. Transplantation within the Framework of Shariah (Islamic ethics)—Lessons from a public engagement program in the UK. In: Jaffer, M., Padela, A. and Randhawa, G. eds. Organ Donation in Islam: The Interplay of Jurisprudence, Ethics, and Society. London and ew York: Lexington Books, pp. 271-302.
- Ali, M. 2022. Soul-searching: Organ donation, death, and the social construction of the soul. In: Jaffer, M., Padela, A. and Randhawa, G. eds. Organ Donation in Islam: The Interplay of Jurisprudence, Ethics, and Society. London and New York: Lexington Books, pp. 73-98.
- Ali, M. 2022. Hadith. In: Leaman, O. ed. Routledge Handbook of Islamic Ritual and Practice. London & New York: Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, pp. 38-61., (10.4324/9781003044659-4)
- Ali, M. M. 2022. Can neuroscience aid in establishing an Islamic view of death?. University of St Andrews. Available at: https://www.theo-puzzles.ac.uk/2022/03/15/mali/
2021
- Ali, M. 2021. ORGAN-ised rejection: An Islamic perspective on the dead donor rule in the UK- Revisited. Journal of British Islamic Medical Association 7(3), pp. 12-20.
- Maravia, U., Ali, M., Bekzhanova, Z. and Alibri, R. 2021. British Muslims caught amidst FOGs - A discourse analysis of religious advice and authority. Religions 12(2), article number: 140. (10.3390/rel12020140)
- Ali, M. 2021. [Book Review] Modern Hadith studies: continued debates and new approaches. Edited by Belal Abu-Alabbas, Michael Dann and Christopher Melchert. Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice 17(1), pp. 290-293.
- Padela, A., Ali, M. and Yusuf, A. 2021. Aligning medical and Muslim morality: an Islamic bioethical approach to applying and rationing life sustaining ventilators in the COVID-19 pandemic era. Journal of Islamic Ethics 5, pp. 1-36. (10.1163/24685542-12340061)
2020
- Chiramel, F. D., Kalavampara, V. S., Ali, M. M. and Singh, B. 2020. The view of major religions of India on brain stem death and organ donation. Amrita Journal of Medicine 16(2), pp. 82=86. (10.4103/AMJM.AMJM_33_20)
- Ali, M. M. and Maravia, U. 2020. Seven faces of a fatwa: organ transplantation and Islam. Religions 11(2), article number: 99. (10.3390/rel11020099)
2019
- Ali, M. 2019. Our bodies belong to God, so what? God’s ownership vs. human rights in the Muslim organ transplantation debate. Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 19, pp. 57-80.
- Ahmed, M. and Ali, M. 2019. In search of Sylhet – the Fultoli tradition in Britain. Religions 10(10), article number: 572. (10.3390/rel10100572)
- Ali, M. M. 2019. Organ donation: ‘Redressing the reality’. Journal of the British Islamic Medical Association 2(1)
- Ali, M. M. 2019. Three British Muftis understanding of organ transplantation. Journal of the British Islamic Medical Association 2
2018
- Ali, M. M. 2018. Muslim chaplaincy as a model for Imamship: From liminality to immanent spirituality. In: Hashas, M., De Ruiter, J. J. and Vinding, N. eds. Imams in Western Europe: Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 295-315.
2017
- Ali, M. M. 2017. Shifting discourse in the Muslim debate on organ transplanting. Presented at: Research Seminar, Al-Mahdi Institute, Birmingham, UK, 27 April 2017.
2016
- Ali, M. M. 2016. Our bodies belong to God: The Human Transplantation Act and Cardiff Muslims’ response to it. Presented at: Seminar on Death and Dying, University of Bath, Bath, UK, October 2016.
- Ali, M. M. 2016. Transplanting Fatwa: Fatwa on organ donation. Presented at: Markfield Institute of Higher Education: Research Seminar, Markfield, UK, October 2016.
- Ali, M. 2016. Immaculate Conception: Islam. In: Thomas, D. et al. eds. Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception Online., Vol. 12. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 970-971.
2015
- Ali, M. M. 2015. Is the British weather anti-Islamic? Prayer times, the Ulama and application of the Shari'a. Contemporary Islam 9(2), pp. 171-187. (10.1007/s11562-014-0318-7)
- Ali, M. M. 2015. Muslim minorities and citizenship: authority, communities and Islamic Law by Sean Oliver-Dee [Book Review]. Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 26(1), pp. 111-113. (10.1080/09596410.2014.964038)
2014
- Ali, M. 2014. Perspectives on drug addiction in Islamic history and theology. Religions 5(3), pp. 912-928. (10.3390/rel5030912)
2013
- Gilliat-Ray, S., Ali, M. M. and Pattison, S. 2013. Understanding Muslim chaplaincy. Ashgate AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Series. Farnham: Ashgate.
2012
- Ali, M. M. and Gilliat-Ray, S. 2012. Muslim chaplains: working at the interface of 'public' and 'private'. In: Ahmad, W. I. U. and Sardar, Z. eds. Muslims in Britain: Making Social and Political Space. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 84-100.
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- Ali, M. . Book review: Innovative opinions (A review of Joel Blecher and Stefanie Brinkmann, editors, Hadith Commentary: Continuity and Change, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. Critical Muslim(48), pp. 261-265.
Articles
- Gilliat-Ray, S., Schmid, H. and Ali, M. M. 2024. Mapping Muslim chaplaincy: An analytic review of publications between 1989 and 2023. Journal of Muslims in Europe (10.1163/22117954-bja10102)
- Ali, M. 2023. The human being as the mystery of Kun fa Kān: An engagement with Shoaib Ahmed Malik’s Islam and Evolution: Al-Ghazālī and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm. Theology and Science 21(4), pp. 732-744. (10.1080/14746700.2023.2255954)
- Ali, M. 2023. [Book Review] Rebellious wives, neglectful husbands: controversies in modern Qur’anic commentaries, by Hadia Mubarak (oxford university press, 2022). Muslim World Book Review 43(4), pp. 25-29.
- Ali, M. 2023. Islam and Biomedical Research Ethics by Mehrunisha Suleman (London: Routledge, 2021) [Book Review]. Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice 19(2), pp. 193-195.
- Ali, M. 2023. [Book Review] The Bruce B. Lawrence reader: Islam beyond borders. Edited and with an introduction by Ali Altaf Mian. Muslim World Book Review 43(3), pp. 31-37.
- Ali, M. 2021. ORGAN-ised rejection: An Islamic perspective on the dead donor rule in the UK- Revisited. Journal of British Islamic Medical Association 7(3), pp. 12-20.
- Maravia, U., Ali, M., Bekzhanova, Z. and Alibri, R. 2021. British Muslims caught amidst FOGs - A discourse analysis of religious advice and authority. Religions 12(2), article number: 140. (10.3390/rel12020140)
- Ali, M. 2021. [Book Review] Modern Hadith studies: continued debates and new approaches. Edited by Belal Abu-Alabbas, Michael Dann and Christopher Melchert. Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice 17(1), pp. 290-293.
- Padela, A., Ali, M. and Yusuf, A. 2021. Aligning medical and Muslim morality: an Islamic bioethical approach to applying and rationing life sustaining ventilators in the COVID-19 pandemic era. Journal of Islamic Ethics 5, pp. 1-36. (10.1163/24685542-12340061)
- Chiramel, F. D., Kalavampara, V. S., Ali, M. M. and Singh, B. 2020. The view of major religions of India on brain stem death and organ donation. Amrita Journal of Medicine 16(2), pp. 82=86. (10.4103/AMJM.AMJM_33_20)
- Ali, M. M. and Maravia, U. 2020. Seven faces of a fatwa: organ transplantation and Islam. Religions 11(2), article number: 99. (10.3390/rel11020099)
- Ali, M. 2019. Our bodies belong to God, so what? God’s ownership vs. human rights in the Muslim organ transplantation debate. Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 19, pp. 57-80.
- Ahmed, M. and Ali, M. 2019. In search of Sylhet – the Fultoli tradition in Britain. Religions 10(10), article number: 572. (10.3390/rel10100572)
- Ali, M. M. 2019. Organ donation: ‘Redressing the reality’. Journal of the British Islamic Medical Association 2(1)
- Ali, M. M. 2019. Three British Muftis understanding of organ transplantation. Journal of the British Islamic Medical Association 2
- Ali, M. M. 2015. Is the British weather anti-Islamic? Prayer times, the Ulama and application of the Shari'a. Contemporary Islam 9(2), pp. 171-187. (10.1007/s11562-014-0318-7)
- Ali, M. M. 2015. Muslim minorities and citizenship: authority, communities and Islamic Law by Sean Oliver-Dee [Book Review]. Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 26(1), pp. 111-113. (10.1080/09596410.2014.964038)
- Ali, M. 2014. Perspectives on drug addiction in Islamic history and theology. Religions 5(3), pp. 912-928. (10.3390/rel5030912)
- Ali, M. . Book review: Innovative opinions (A review of Joel Blecher and Stefanie Brinkmann, editors, Hadith Commentary: Continuity and Change, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. Critical Muslim(48), pp. 261-265.
Book sections
- Ali, M., Maravia, U. and Padela, A. 2023. Religious viewpoints: Sunni Islam. In: Hurst, D. J., Padilla, L. and Paris, W. D. eds. Xenotransplantation: Ethical, Regulatory, and Social Aspects., Vol. 1. Cham: Springer, pp. 163-177., (10.1007/978-3-031-29071-8_14)
- Ali, A., Randhawa, G. and Ali, M. 2022. Transplantation within the Framework of Shariah (Islamic ethics)—Lessons from a public engagement program in the UK. In: Jaffer, M., Padela, A. and Randhawa, G. eds. Organ Donation in Islam: The Interplay of Jurisprudence, Ethics, and Society. London and ew York: Lexington Books, pp. 271-302.
- Ali, M. 2022. Soul-searching: Organ donation, death, and the social construction of the soul. In: Jaffer, M., Padela, A. and Randhawa, G. eds. Organ Donation in Islam: The Interplay of Jurisprudence, Ethics, and Society. London and New York: Lexington Books, pp. 73-98.
- Ali, M. 2022. Hadith. In: Leaman, O. ed. Routledge Handbook of Islamic Ritual and Practice. London & New York: Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, pp. 38-61., (10.4324/9781003044659-4)
- Ali, M. M. 2018. Muslim chaplaincy as a model for Imamship: From liminality to immanent spirituality. In: Hashas, M., De Ruiter, J. J. and Vinding, N. eds. Imams in Western Europe: Developments, Transformations, and Institutional Challenges. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 295-315.
- Ali, M. 2016. Immaculate Conception: Islam. In: Thomas, D. et al. eds. Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception Online., Vol. 12. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 970-971.
- Ali, M. M. and Gilliat-Ray, S. 2012. Muslim chaplains: working at the interface of 'public' and 'private'. In: Ahmad, W. I. U. and Sardar, Z. eds. Muslims in Britain: Making Social and Political Space. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 84-100.
Books
- Gilliat-Ray, S., Ali, M. M. and Pattison, S. 2013. Understanding Muslim chaplaincy. Ashgate AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Series. Farnham: Ashgate.
Conferences
- Ali, M. M. 2017. Shifting discourse in the Muslim debate on organ transplanting. Presented at: Research Seminar, Al-Mahdi Institute, Birmingham, UK, 27 April 2017.
- Ali, M. M. 2016. Our bodies belong to God: The Human Transplantation Act and Cardiff Muslims’ response to it. Presented at: Seminar on Death and Dying, University of Bath, Bath, UK, October 2016.
- Ali, M. M. 2016. Transplanting Fatwa: Fatwa on organ donation. Presented at: Markfield Institute of Higher Education: Research Seminar, Markfield, UK, October 2016.
Monographs
- Ali, M. M. 2022. Can neuroscience aid in establishing an Islamic view of death?. University of St Andrews. Available at: https://www.theo-puzzles.ac.uk/2022/03/15/mali/
Research
Current Research:
- Medical fatwas
- Organ transplantation and Islam
- Islamic Bioethics
Teaching
I teach mainly in the field of Islam and ethics, and British Muslim Studies. I teach in all the undergraduate years as well as on the MA Islam in Contemporary Britain.
Current PhD students
- Laiqah Osman (Muslim Women in Britain and the authority of online Islamic content). Jameel scholarship funded.
- Afsan Redwan (Interpreting the Qur'an in English: hermeneutical approaches in Muhammad Asad, Yusuf Ali and Abdul Majid Darybadi’s works)
- Fatima Khan (Muslims in Britain and Disabilities: An Exploration of Visual Impairment Experiences, Attitudes and Cultural influences Amongst British South Asian Muslims). Jameel scholarship funded.
- Andreas Hamzah Tzortzis (Is the Qur'an Scientific: An Assessment of 'ijāz al-'ilmī and the multiplicity of readings approach).
- Feyza Goren (Hadith in al-Sarakhsi's al-Mabsut).
- Sheam Khan (The Perils of Receiving Revelation in Your Mother Tongue: A Critical Study of the Translator's Ideological Influence on the Message of the Qur'an).
Previous Phd students
- Dr Riyaz Timol: 2012-2016
- Dr Haroon Sidat: 2015-2018
- Dr Ayesha Khan: 2016-2020
- Dr Momamer Khaleylah: 2018-2023.
- Dr Arwa AbaHussain: 2019-2024
Biography
Maulana Dr Mansur Ali is a traditionally trained Muslim scholar, imam, author and educator. His Islamic learning spans three worlds of scholarship (South Asian Dars e Nizami, Azhari and Western academia). Traditionally trained in Darul Uloom Birmingham, Darul Uloom Bury, and Al-Azhar University Cairo, he read for postgraduate studies (MA and PhD) at the University of Manchester writing a PhD thesis on the Sunan of Imam al-Tirmidhi.
His teaching career equally oscillates between traditional Islamic seminary and Western academia. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies at Cardiff University, where he teaches on Islam and ethics. Having supervised five doctoral students to completion, he is currently supervising six PhD students. Furthermore, he has taught traditional Islamic texts such as Mishkat, Hidaya, Sharh al-Aqaid al-Nasafiyya, Nur al-Anwar and Nuzhat al-Nazar.
He is interested in Hadith studies, Islamic legal theory, fiqh al-fataawa, Muslim chaplaincy, and Islam and bioethics. Currently he is researching various aspects of organ transplantation and Islam.
He is a Council member of the British Board of Scholars and Imam (BBSI), a member of the British Association of Islamic Studies (BRAIS), a member of the advisory board at Cambridge Muslim College, a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a khatib at the Dar ul Isra Mosque in Cardiff.
Education and qualifications
2014: Postgraduate Certificate in University Teaching and Learning (PCUTL), Cardiff University.
2005-2009 PhD Middle Eastern Studies (Islamic), "Al-Tirmidhi and the Role of the Isnad in His Sunan", University of Manchester, supervised by Dr Ronald P. Buckley. Funded by Manchester University 'Graduate Teaching Fellowship Award'.
2004-2005 MA Middle Eastern Studies (Islamic), "The Methodology of Western Scholars in the Study of Hadith Literature", University of Manchester, supervised by Dr Andreas Christmann.
2002-2004 BA Islamic Theology, Al-Azhar University, Cairo Egypt.
1990-2000 Advanced Certificate in Classical Islamic and Arabic Studies. Darul Uloom Al-Arabiyya Al-Islamiyya Bury, UK.
Career overview
2021 - Present: Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies
2015- 2021: Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Cardiff University
2012-2015: Post-doctoral Jameel fellow in Islamic Studies, Cardiff University
2011- 2012: Post-doctoral fellow, Cambridge Muslim College
2010 – 2011: Research associate, Cardiff University
2007-2010: Muslim chaplain, Ashworth High Security Hospital, Liverpool
2005-2008: Graduate teaching fellow, University of Manchester.
Other academic activities
Reviewer for a number of academic journals
Honours and awards
2022: Welsh Crucible training award.
2021: Cardiff University Outstanding Contribution Award.
2015: BISCA (British Imams and Scholars Contribution Award) for best contribution in teaching and research. (http://www.biscaawards.org/bisca-2015-awardees-2/)
Professional memberships
- Fellow: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
- Member: British Islamic Medical Association (BIMA)
- Member: Centre for Islam and Medicine (CIM)
- Council member: British Board of Scholars and Imams (BIMA).
- Council Member: British Association of Islamic Studies (BRAIS)
- Member: Muslims in Britain Research Network (MBRN)
Academic positions
2021 - Present: Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Cardiff University.
2016 - 2021: Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Cardiff University.
2012-2015: Post-doctoral Jameel fellow in Islamic Studies, Cardiff University.
2011 – 2012: Research Fellow, Cambridge Muslim College.
2010-2011: Cardiff University, Research Associate, Understanding Muslim Chaplaincy Project.
Speaking engagements
June 2023: ‘What was Adam taught?’ Pre and Post-Darwinian Perspectives on Islamic Theological Anthropology, University of Nottingham.
June 2022: ‘E-Nikah in Hanafi fiqh.’ Spirituality and Resiliency, Islam in Cyberspace, and Muslim Popular Culture conference, Western University of Sydney.
June 2022: ‘E-Majlis in Hanafi fiqh’ BRAIS conference, Edinburgh University.
2021: Online: 'E-Majlis: Nikah, Tarawih and Hadith audition during Covid-19 lockdown' in Islamic Responses to COVID-19: Authority and Religiosity in #Muslim Communities and Digital Worlds. University of Wales Trinity St David. Online.
2021: Online: Neuroscience, Moral Responsibility, and Sin. Society of Christian Ethics. January 2021.
2020: Online: Between and Betwixed: Islam brain-death and organ donation. University of Winchester Theology Lecture series. November 2020.
2020: Online: Linking Social Justice and Brain Injuries Through Theology, International Neuroethics Society. October 2020.
2019: Our bodies belong to God, So what?: Organ donation and bodily property, British Association of Islamic Studies, University of Nottingham
2018: Understanding organ transplantation fatwas, International conference on organ transplantation in Islam, Western Sydeny University, Sydney, Australia.
2017: Pediatric organ donation and Islamic ethics, Great Ormond Street Hospital chaplaincy department
2016: ‘Praying With, Praying For and Praying on Patients: Towards a Muslim Practical Theology in Chaplaincy’, 1st International Congress on Spiritual care and counselling, Istanbul University, Turkey. (April 2016)
2015: ‘How do we know the Prophet said it? Hadith commentary as polemic in post-colonial India: a study of al-Uthmani’s I’la al-Sunan’, British Association of Islamic Studies Second Annual Conference, University of London, Senate House, April 2015
2014: ‘British Imams in Chaplaincy: Working at the interface of ‘public’ and ‘private’’, Imams in Western Europe Conference, LUISS and JCU, Rome, November 2014
2014: ‘More than bosom friends: British Muslims and milk banks’ , British Association of Islamic Studies Inaugural Conference, May 2014
Committees and reviewing
- 2024-present: Director of Postgraduate Research -SHARE
- 2020- 2023: Director of Postgraduate Taught Studies - SHARE.
- 2015- 2017: Religious and Theological Studies, years 2 and 3 Senior tutor
- 2012- 2017: School of History, Archaeology and Religion Equality and Diversity Committee
External Committees
- 2022-present: Editorial Board member: Journal of Practical Theology.
- 2022-present: Council Member British Association of Islamic Studies (BRAIS)
- 2018-present: Academic Advisor on the BA programme at Cambridge Muslim College.
- 2015: Leeds University External examiner for Arabic and Islamic Studies (Life Long Learning Centre).
Supervisions
I am interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of:
1. Islam and organ transplantation
2. Islam and bioethics
3. Muslim chaplaincy
4. Hadith studies
5. Usul al-Fiqh and ilm al-kalam
7. Qur'an and tafsir studies
8. Contemporary fatwas
Current supervision
Laiqah Osman
Research student
Afsan Redwan
Research student
Fatima Khan
Research student
Feyza Goren
Research student
Past projects
- Dr Riyaz Timol: 2012-2016. Spiritual Wayfarers in a Secular Age: The Tablighi Jama'at in Modern Britain.
- Dr Haroon Sidat: 2015-2018. Formation and Training of British Muslim Religious Leadership: An Ethnography of a Dar al-Uloom in Britain.
- Dr Ayesha Khan: 2016-2020. Sufisticated: Exploring Contemporary Sufism Amongst Young British Muslims.
- Dr Momamer Khalayleh: 2018-2023. Engaging Contemporary Atheism Through the Conceptual Tools of Ash'ari Theology.
- Dr Arwa AbaHussain: 2019-2024. The Hermeneutics of Renewal in Khaled Abou El Fadl’s Writings.
Contact Details
+44 29208 76297
John Percival Building, Room 5.08, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
Research themes
Specialisms
- Islamic studies
- Islamic Revival
- Chaplaincy Studies
- Bioethics
