Director & Head of Research    

    Email: s.hussain@ibnrushdcentre.org

    Profile

    Dr Shahrul Hussain is a graduate of a traditional private Islamic seminary. In 1997, after graduating from the Seminary, he won a full scholarship to study at the University of Al-Azhar, and in 2001 graduated from the Faculty of Islamic Jurisprudence and Law. In 2009, he completed his PhD at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.

    During his career Shahrul Hussain has held many posts in the field of education. In 2010, he started his academic career with an institute affiliated to the University of Gloucestershire and Newman University Birmingham. He was a lecturer in Islamic Studies and the BA Islamic Studies Course Leader. Shahrul Hussain has travelled to many parts of the world attending academic conferences and seminars. He is passionate at teaching as well as research, and he is happy to hear from research scholars with ideas for research collaboration or PhD student requiring help and support with their research.

    Shahrul Hussain’s primary research focus is applied jurisprudence, Islamic legal theories and contemporary jurisprudence. He also has a keen interest in Hadith studies and Qur’anic studies. He feels passionately that good quality research and teaching will provide a space for detailed and nuanced understanding of religion and the changing nature of religious society, traditions and practices in the modern world.

    Education 

    Ph.D. in Islamic Studies. Area of study: Islamic Jurisprudence, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK;

    B.A. Islamic Jurisprudence, University of Al-Azhar, Cairo, Egypt; 

    B.A. Islamic and Cultural Studies with Arabic (Fadil), Darul Uloom Islamic College, Birmingham, UK. Grade: First Class Honours

    B.A. Islamic Studies, Correspondence Course, Accrediting body: Rabitah Madaris al-Islamiyyah  in Pakistan; Grade: Distinction

    Modules: Arabic Language, Hanafi Jurisprudenc, Hadith, Ulūm al-Hadith, Tafsir, Ulūm al-Tafsir

    Publications 

    Journal articles 

    2021 Tamlīk-proper to Quasi-tamlīk: Unconditional Cash Transfer (UCT) of Zakat Money, Empowering the Poor and Contemporary Modes of Distributing Zakat Money with Special Reference to British Muslim Charities, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, https://doi.org/10.1080/13602004.2021.1894388

    2020 Khalifah, the Environment and Recycling Copies of the Holy Qur’an: A Symbiotic Sematic Consideration, Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice, Vol 16, Issue 1, 2020. The Issue is also available online (subscription only): https://www.electronicpublications.org/catalogue/244 

     Vol 16, Issue 1 (2020) of the Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice

    2016 Hussain, Shahrul,  Ribā Based Mortgages in  Dār al-Harb: An Issue of Modernist Application of Fiqh al-Aqalliyāt for Muslim Minorities. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 36:3, 364-382.

    2015 Hussain, Shahrul, The Ethico-legal Principals of Arms Trade and Arms Embargo in Early Sunni Jurisprudence: Journal of Islamic State Practices in International Law, 11:1, 26-48.  

    2014 Hussain, Shahrul, The Theories of Coercion and the Influence of Social Class on the Rules Regarding Coercion in Contracts in Early Sunni Jurisprudence The Islamic Law and Culture Journal, Routlegde, DePaul University, USA :http://media.law.uark.edu/jilc/ Issue: Volume 2014, Number 1

    Books 

    2023  Six volume Forty Hadith Collection from the Six books of Hadith, (Kube Publishing)

    2012 Hussain, Shahrul, Islamic Commercial Contractual Law Between Muslims and Non-Muslims: A classical and contemporary comparative analysis: (Cambridge: Lambert Publishing, 2012).  

     2016 A Treasury of Sacred Maxim, (Markfield: Kube Publishing, 2016)

     2016 What the Living can do to Help the Dead, (London: Whitethread Publishing, 2016). 

     2012 Dār al-Islām and Dār al-Ĥarb: An Analytical Study of its Historical Inception, Its Classical Definition and its Applicability in the Contemporary, (Birmingham: Al-Hikma Publications, 2012)

    Current Research Projects

    1. The Islamic Legal Responsibility of Caring for the Muslim Elderly in Britain: A Socio-religious Survey and its Financial Implications 
    2. “100% Donation Policy” Cooperate Altruism or Marketing Ploy: The Islamic Ethico-Legal Axiom of Using Charity Money for Administration Purposes

    Future Research Projects 

    1.  Neo-traditionalist Muslim Scholars and Gender-reassignment Surgery:  Contemporary Development in Sunni and Shia Legal Thought with Particular Reference to British Muslim Attitudes
    2. Essentialism and Islamic Theology of Beauty Enhancement Surgery: A Critical Reflection on an Essentialist Epistemology toward Bio-medical Ethics: 

    Published Book Reviews 

    1. The Creation of Saudi Arabia: Ibn Saud and British Imperial Policy, 1914-1927, Askar H. al-Enazy, Routledge; 2010, published by The Muslim World Book Review: vol. 32, Issue 1, Autum 2011
    2. Islamic Law and the Law of Armed Conflict: The armed conflict in Pakistan, Niaz A. Shah, Routledge; 2011, published by The Muslim World Book Review: vol. 32, Issue 1, Autum 2011
    3. Shari’a in the West, edited by Rex Ahdar & Nicholas Aroney, Oxford University Press: 2010, by The Muslim World Book Review: vol. 32, Issue 3, Spring 2012
    4. Youth Work and Islam: A Leap of Faith for Young People,Editedby Brian Belton and Sadek Hamid. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2011. by The Muslim World Book Review: vol. 32, Issue 3, Winter 2012
    5. Theological Approaches to Qur’anic Exegesis: A practical comparative-contrastive analysis. By Hussein Abdul-Raof. Oxon: Routledge, 2012. The Muslim World Book Review: vol. 33, Issue 3, Spring 2013
    6. Non-Muslims in the early Islamic Empire: From Surrender to Coexistence, Milka Levy-Rubin, Camabrigde University Press, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. The Muslim World Book Review: vol. 33, Issue 3, Spring 2013
    7. Economic Problems and the Teaching(s) of the Qur’an. Edited by Ausaf Ahmad and Abdul Azim Islahi. Aligarh. The Muslim World Book Review: vol. 34, Issue 3, Spring 2014
    8. Mālik and Medina: Islamic Legal Reasoning in the Formative Period. Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf: Leiden: Brill, 2013. The Muslim World Book Review: vol. 34, Issue 3, Spring 2014
    9. The History of the Qur’ān. Theodor Noldeke, Friedrich Schwally, Gotthelf Bergstraser and Otto Pretzl. Edited and translated by Wolfgang H. Behn: Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. 666. ISBN: 978-90-04-21234-3, The Muslim World Book Review: vol. 35, Issue 3, Spring 2014
    10. The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qur’ān. By Shady Hekmat Nasser.: Leiden: Brill, 2013. Pp. 252. ISBN: 978-90-04-24081-0, The Muslim World Book Review: vol. 35, Issue 3, Spring 2014
    11. Encyclopedia of Hadith Forgeries. By Mulla ‘Ali al-Qari Translated by Gibril Fouad Haddad: Rochdale: Beacon Books, 2013. Pp. 723. ISBN: 978-0-9926335-0-9, The Muslim World Book Review: vol. 35, Issue 1, Autumn 2014
    12. Henry Stubbe and the Beginning of Islam: The Originall & Progress of Mohometanism. Edited and Introduced by Nabil Matar: New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. Pp. 274. ISBN: 978-0-231-15664-6, The Muslim World Book Review: vol. 36, Issue 1, Autumn 2015
    13. Muslim Family Law in Western Courts, Edited by Elisa Giunchi: Oxon, Routledge, 2014. Pp. 196. ISBN: 978-0-415-81977-0, The Muslim World Book Review: vol. 36, Issue 1, Autumn 2015
    14. Performing Salah Using the Prophetic Example: Based on Authentic Hadiths From the Six Most Authentic Books. By M. Mushfiqur Rahman: USA: Fitrah Press, 2015. Pp. 274549. ISBN: 978-1-943108-00-8, The Muslim World Book Review: vol. 36, Issue 2, Winter 2016
    15. Politics of the Islamic Tradition: The Thought of Muhammad al-Ghazali. Mohammed Moussa, Oxon: Routledge, 2016. Pp. 186. ISBN: 978-1-138-84121-5
    16. Women and Shari‘a Law. Elham Manea, Norwich: I.B. Tauris, 2016. Pp. 301. ISBN: 978-1-78453-735-7

    PAPERS PRESENTED IN THE SEMINAR AND CONFERENCES

    1. The Ethico-legal Principals of Arms Trade and Arms Embargo in Early Sunni Jurisprudence: Friday 7th July 2017, Al-Mahdi Institute, Birmingham
    2. Fiqh al-Aqalliyat, al-Qardawi’s Reformation to Fiqh: A study of Riba Based Mortgages in Dar al-Harb.University of Exeter, 25th November 2014
    3. Constitutionismand the Dār Issue: Understanding Non-Muslim Loyalty and Citizenship a Study of their Rights in Arms Trade: Thursday 7th January 2016, presented paper at University of Exeter

    Membership of professional associations 

    1. Former Chair of Directors the Abrahamic Foundation
    2. Member of the National Council of British Ulema (BBSI)
    3. British Association of Islamic Studies (BRAIS), 
    4. Muslims in Britain Research Network (MBRN), 
    5. British Association of Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES)