Overview
Research interests
My academic interests are in the pre-modern Islamic tradition. My research interests focus on how ideas are received, circulated, assimilated, reproduced and transformed as well as the religious, social and institutional contexts in which this process takes place. I concentrate on two subject areas: the Islamic religious tradition and Islamic natural philosophy. I use both textual (manuscript and print) and material (object and image) sources.
Publication
2023
- Malik, S. 2023. Islamic science in the 11th CE / 5th AH Century: Ibn Sīnā on sight, light, and light-phenomena. Leiden: Brill.
2021
- Malik, S. 2021. Diocles. In: Fleet, K. et al. eds. Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, (10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_26044)
2017
- Malik, S. 2017. Countering the Sharī‘a: how material culture constructs a narrative of an “Islamic” identity that counters the Sharī‘a. Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies 2(2), pp. 76-99. (10.2979/jims.2.2.04)
- Malik, S. 2017. Observation versus experiment: an adequate framework for analysing scientific experimentation?. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 48, pp. 71-95. (10.1007/s10838-016-9335-y)
2014
- Malik, S. 2014. Optics and optical theories. In: Kalin, I. ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 96-102., (10.1093/acref:oiso/9780199812578.001.0001)
2010
- Malik, S. 2010. "Enjoin the good, prevent the harmful" - the intersection of theory and practice in the implementation of sharī'a for Muslims in Western societies: The case of medical ethics in Britain. Journal of Islamic Law and Culture 12(3), pp. 244-257. (10.1080/1528817X.2010.618017)
- Malik, S. 2010. The social transformation of the 'ūlamā' in British India during the nineteenth century. Journal of Islamic Law and Culture 12(1), pp. 45-57. (10.1080/1528817X.2010.528593)
2009
- Malik, S. 2009. An analysis of apostasy/irtidād: Considerations for Muslims in contemporary Western societies. Journal of Islamic Law and Culture 11(3), pp. 211-224. (10.1080/15288171003718632)
- Malik, S. 2009. A contextual reading of Sharīʿa in the Quran: Implications for contemporary Western societies. Journal of Islamic Law and Culture 11(1), pp. 1-13. (10.1080/15288170902857681)
Articles
- Malik, S. 2017. Countering the Sharī‘a: how material culture constructs a narrative of an “Islamic” identity that counters the Sharī‘a. Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies 2(2), pp. 76-99. (10.2979/jims.2.2.04)
- Malik, S. 2017. Observation versus experiment: an adequate framework for analysing scientific experimentation?. Journal for General Philosophy of Science 48, pp. 71-95. (10.1007/s10838-016-9335-y)
- Malik, S. 2010. "Enjoin the good, prevent the harmful" - the intersection of theory and practice in the implementation of sharī'a for Muslims in Western societies: The case of medical ethics in Britain. Journal of Islamic Law and Culture 12(3), pp. 244-257. (10.1080/1528817X.2010.618017)
- Malik, S. 2010. The social transformation of the 'ūlamā' in British India during the nineteenth century. Journal of Islamic Law and Culture 12(1), pp. 45-57. (10.1080/1528817X.2010.528593)
- Malik, S. 2009. An analysis of apostasy/irtidād: Considerations for Muslims in contemporary Western societies. Journal of Islamic Law and Culture 11(3), pp. 211-224. (10.1080/15288171003718632)
- Malik, S. 2009. A contextual reading of Sharīʿa in the Quran: Implications for contemporary Western societies. Journal of Islamic Law and Culture 11(1), pp. 1-13. (10.1080/15288170902857681)
Book sections
- Malik, S. 2021. Diocles. In: Fleet, K. et al. eds. Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, (10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_26044)
- Malik, S. 2014. Optics and optical theories. In: Kalin, I. ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 96-102., (10.1093/acref:oiso/9780199812578.001.0001)
Books
- Malik, S. 2023. Islamic science in the 11th CE / 5th AH Century: Ibn Sīnā on sight, light, and light-phenomena. Leiden: Brill.
- Malik, S. 2010. "Enjoin the good, prevent the harmful" - the intersection of theory and practice in the implementation of sharī'a for Muslims in Western societies: The case of medical ethics in Britain. Journal of Islamic Law and Culture 12(3), pp. 244-257. (10.1080/1528817X.2010.618017)
- Malik, S. 2010. The social transformation of the 'ūlamā' in British India during the nineteenth century. Journal of Islamic Law and Culture 12(1), pp. 45-57. (10.1080/1528817X.2010.528593)
- Malik, S. 2009. An analysis of apostasy/irtidād: Considerations for Muslims in contemporary Western societies. Journal of Islamic Law and Culture 11(3), pp. 211-224. (10.1080/15288171003718632)