Profile

Shaykh Afsan Yusaf Redwan is Research Scholar of Qur’anic Studie. He is a passionate and dedicated teacher who constantly seeks ways to improve and adopt new teaching pedagogies. His higher education experience has developed his ability to critically engage with concepts and synthesise different ideas to create exciting learning environments. Experience teaching undergraduates and marking assignments has enhanced how I provide student feedback and further developed my teaching practice. In addition, I have completed peer-reviewed publications on numerous topics. Research interests include religious studies, education, ethics, and theology.

 

Education

2019 Cardiff University (present) PhD in Theology and Religious Studies ‘Quranic Hermeneutics; a study on the pedagogical tools of English Qur’an translations impacting current exegetical typologies.’ Cardiff University.

Cardiff University Education Associate Fellowship Programme – Awarded AFHE – Fellowship reference PR259531

MA Islamic Studies – Distinction, Newman University Birmingham

University of Hertfordshire

PGCE and QTS in Secondary teaching (Science) – TRN – 1586891

University of Bedfordshire (2012-2015)

BSc Biological Science University of Bedfordshire

Publications

Redwan A, Amin, MD, Carss, J., forthcoming 2024, A Theoretical Exploration of Enhancement Sessions at Bedford Sixth Form, Practitioner Research in College-Based Education, IGI Global.

Redwan, A., Muslim World Book Review, forthcoming 2023: The ethics of Generating Posthumans. Bloomsbury Academic.

Muslims in the UK and Europe Postgraduate Symposium, Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, 22-23 June 2023, forthcoming 2024 ‘Engaging with the Quran in the Anglosphere: How New Textual Productions, Quranic essays and commentary contribute to the Discursive Canon of Anglophone Islam’.

Chapter in Islam and Pastoral Care edited collection, Kube Publishing, forthcoming 2024. Redwan, A., Changing the fabric, embedding an Islamic ethos across the curriculum and form time: a case study on Al Hikmah Boys School.

Redwan, A., Muslim World Book Review, Vol 42, Iss.4, The Islamic Foundation 2022: I, WARBOT: THE DAWN OF ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT CONFLICT, by Kenneth Payne. Location: C Hurst & Co. Publishers Ltd., 2021, ix+288pp. ISBN: 9781787384620

Redwan, A., GloQur Blog: Spiritual translations a review of ‘The Qur’an: English Translation, Commentary and Parallel

Arabic Text, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan and Prof. Farida Khanam. 2022

Redwan, A., “When The Earth Speaks Against Us: Environmental Ethics In Islam: Yaqeen Institute For Islamic

Research”, Yaqeen Institute For Islamic Research, 2018, https://yaqeeninstitute.org/read/paper/when-the-earth-speaks- against-us-environmental-ethics-in-islam.

Professional Associations

British Association for Islamic Studies BRAIS Doctoral Academy, Cardiff University

Pearson Associate

Researcher Scholar of Islamic Jurisprudence

Profile

Dr Sohail Hanif is Researcher Scholar of Islamic Jurisprudence and currently the Chief Executive of the National Zakat Foundation.

Prior to his current role, he held the position of BA Manager and Lecturer at Cambridge Muslim College. From 2015-17, he was NZF’s Head of Research and Development and has also held the position of Head of Sciences at Qasid Arabic Institute in Amman.

His expertise lies in Islamic law, having studied extensively with traditional scholars. His PhD thesis, which explores Islamic legal epistemology, won the 2019 prize of the British Association for Islamic Studies. He has lectured widely on Islamic law and Qur’anic studies in academic, public and traditional settings.

Education

St Antony’s College, University of Oxford

DPhil in Oriental Studies (Islamic World)

Thesis: A Theory of Early Classical Ḥanafism: Authority, Rationality and Tradition in the Hidāyah of Burhān al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (d. 593/1197)

St Antony’s College, University of Oxford

MA Oriental Studies (Awarded “distinction”) Examined in history, law and Sufism

1^st Dissertation: Sixth-Century Ḥanafī Fatāwā Literature and the Consolidation of School Identity

2^nd Dissertation: Al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī (d. c. 295/907-8) and the Kasb Debates of the Second and Third Islamic-Centuries

Anwar al-Ulama Institute, Amman, Jordan

Study of classical texts in theology, logic, Islamic law, legal methodology, history of law, hadith methodology and research in hadith sources

Imperial College London

BEng Information Systems Engineering

Publications

• “The Five Categories”. In Routledge Handbook of Islamic Ethics. Edited by Mohamed Ghaly. (forthcoming)
• “Abū Yūsuf’s Ikhtilāf Abī Ḥanīfa wa-Ibn Abī Laylā and the Transmission of Knowledge in the Early Ḥanafī school,” Islamic Law and Society (2021): 1-33.
• “The Questions of Abū Ḥanīfa,” Diyanet İlmî Dergi, 56 (2020): 1349-1404.
• “Hadith and Fiqh in the Ottoman Period Between Egyptian and Rumelian Ḥanafīs, 9^th-11^th Centuries A.H” Pages 229-85 in Osmanlı’da İlm-i Hadis. Edited by Zekeriya Güler, Bekir Kuzudişli and Mustafa Celil Altuntaş. Istanbul: İSAR Yayınları, 2020.
• “Al-Kāsānī”, Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3^rd edition. Leiden: Brill, 2020.
• “A Tale of Two Kufans: Abū Yūsuf’s (d. 182/798) Ikhtilāf Abī Ḥanīfa wa-Ibn Abī Laylā and Schacht’s Ancient Schools,” Islamic Law and Society, 25 (2018): 173-211.
• “Al-Ḥadīth al-Mashhūr: A Ḥanafī Reference to Kufan Practice?” in Sohaira Siddiqui (ed.), Locating the Sharia: Legal Fluidity in Theory, History and Practice. Leiden: Brill, 2018.

Forthcoming Academic Projects

• Publication of PhD thesis – contract signed with De Gruyter, final manuscript submission December 2023
• Book Chapter – “Inheritance and Political and Religious Leadership,” Chapter Three in Cambridge Companion to Women and Islam. Edited by Masooda Bano. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Book Chapter – “Commentaries.” Handbook of Islamic Legal Genres. Edited by Hakki Arslan.
• Encyclopaedia Entry – “Qādīkhān”. Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3^rd edition.
• Article – “Tricky Ethics: The Problem of the hila for a Discourse on Ethics and Islamic Law.”
• A Classical Commentary on Muslim Creed: A Textbook on Classical Islamic Kalām Based on al-

Taftāzānī’s Sharḥ al-‘Aqā’id al-nasafīyah and Its Commentaries, funded by John Templeton Foundation (under peer review).

 

 

Conference and workshop papers

• “Pluralism in Islamic Law,” Fourth Annual Symposium on Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society, University of Indiana, November, 2020
• “Al-Mashaqqa in Zayn al-Dīn ibn Nujaym’s al-Ashbāh wa-al-naẓāʾir” LAWALISI Text-Based Workshop on al-Qawāʿid al-Fiqhiyya Texts, University of Exeter, December 2019
• “Engaging Politics With Zakat,” Lilly School of Philanthropy, University of Indiana, November 2019
• “Tradition in Modernity: The Islamic Higher Education Experience at Cambridge Muslim College,” Workshop on Islamic Higher Education, Royal Plaza, Singapore, July 2019
• “Working Out the Rules of Tracking Menstrual Periods: A Ḥanafī Story,” Menstruation in Islamic Legal Discourses Project, University of Exeter, July 2019
• “The Hanafi Classification of Legal Rulings,” 6th Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies, University of Nottingham, April 2019
• “Fiqh as Method: Early Classical Ḥanafism in the Classroom,” Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Amsterdam, December 2018
• “The Salafī Epistemology of Early Classical Ḥanafism: From Uṣūl al-Fiqh to Furū‘ al-Fiqh,” 5th Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, April 2018
• “The Bāb al-ʿĀshir from al-Marghīnānī’s al-Hidāya” Religious Taxes in Islamic Law: A Workshop Sponsored by the LAWALISI Project, University of Exeter, March 2018
• “Arguing the Law: Unravelling the Dialectic of al-Marghīnānī’s (d. 593/1196-7) al-Hidāyah,” Annual Meeting of Middle Eastern Studies Association, Boston, November 2016
• “The Battle for Hearts: Reconciling Hearts with Zakat,” 4th Annual Contemporary Fiqhī Issues Workshop, al-Mahdi Institute, Birmingham, June 2016
• “Tricks or Ethics? The Problem of the Ḥīlah for a Discourse on Ethics and Islamic Law,” 8th International Conference of the International Society for Islamic Legal Studies, University of Leiden, November 2015
• “Al-Ḥadīth al-Mashhūr: A Ḥanafī Reference to Kufan Practice?” Uncovering the Divine Law: A Workshop on Muslim Legal Theory, University of Exeter, October 2015
• “Sixth-Century Ḥanafī Fatāwā Literature and the Consolidation of School Identity,” 2nd Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies, April 2015
• “The Lasting Influence of an Early Garrison Town: Abū Ḥanīfah and the Fiqh of Kufa,” 11th Annual Islamic Studies Conference, University of North Carolina, February 2014
• “A Tale of Two Kufans: A Study of Abū Yūsuf’s Ikhtilāf Abī Ḥanīfah wa-Ibn Abī Laylā,” Sharia Project Workshop, University of Leiden, November 2013

Safaruk Zaman Chowdhury Research Fellow

Email: sc@cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk

Academia Page: https://safchowdhury.academia.edu/ ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2196-2968

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Islamic Studies. Area of study: Sufism, SOAS, London, UK.

M.A. Islamic (distinction). SOAS, London, UK.

B.A. Philosophy. Kings College London, London, UK.

A.K.C. Associate of Kings College. Christian Theology. Kings College London, London, UK. Diploma, Arabic. Ministry of Education, Cairo, Egypt. Accrediting body: Wizārat al-Taʿlīm

EMPLOYMENT

2007-2011: Lecturer, Islamic Studies and World Religions, SOAS, London, UK

2007-2011: Lecturer, Philosophy, Theology and Islamic Studies, Birkbeck College, London, UK 2009-2019: Head of Humanities, The King Fahad Academy, London, UK

2019-2022: Cover supervisor, Thomas Deacon Academy, Peterborough, UK 2020-2023: Visiting Fellow, Cambridge Muslim College, Cambridge, UK

2022-Current: Humanities Teacher, Thomas Deacon Academy, Peterborough, UK

ACADEMIC OUTPUT

Monographs

2021. Safaruk Chowdhury, Islamic Theology and The Problem of Evil. American University Cairo Press, New York and Cairo.

――― 2019. A Ṣūfi Apologist of Nishāpūr: The Life and Thought of Abū ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī. Equinox Publishing. Sheffield.

Independent

――― 2021. A Treatise on Disputation and Argument: Risālat al-Ādāb Fī ʿIlm al-Baḥth wa’l-Munāẓara. Dar al-Nicosia. London.

――― 2013. Introducing Arabic Rhetoric. A New Revised & Expanded Version. Dar al-Nicosia. London.

Journal Articles

2020. Safaruk Chowdhury, ‘God, Gluts and Gaps: Examining an Islamic Traditionalist Case for a Contradictory Theology’. History and Philosophy of Logic. https://doi.org/10.1080/01445340.2020.1797449

――― 2022. ‘Explaining Evil in the Bio-Sphere: Assessing Some Evolutionary Theodicies for Muslim

Theists’. Zygon https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12775

――― 2022. ‘The Risāla fī ādāb al-baḥth wa-l-munāẓara of Ismāʿīl Gelenbevī (d. 1206/1791) and Applications to Contemporary Argumentation Theories’. In Osmanlı’da İlm-i Mantık ve Münazara. Istanbul: İSAR, 551-570.

――― 2022. ‘“Invoke Your Lord in Humility and in Secret (Q. 7:55)”: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī on the Efficacy of Petitionary Prayers’. Journal of Islamic Philosophy 13:3-49.

――― 2023. ‘“God, Logic and Lies: Intra-Ḥanafī Polemics on Divine Omnipotence in Colonial India”.

Kader 20: 960-983.

――― 2024. ‘Prayer Language and the Problem of Petitionary Prayer in Islamic Theology’. In Islamic Philosophy of Religion: Analytic Perspectives. Routledge (forthcoming).

――― 2024. ‘Suffering, Islamic Consolation Literature and the Process of Meaning Making’. Journal of Islamic Ethics (forthcoming)

Papers and Presentations

Safaruk Chowdhury, ‘Exploring Meaning-Making in the Midst of Suffering’. Saturday 4^th February 2023, British Board of Scholars and Imams, 11^th Symposium, London.

―――, ‘Quantum Mechanics, Incompleteness of Physical Reality and An Islamic Occasionalist Idealism’.

Saturday 3^rd December 2022, ASIPT Conference, Harvard University, Boston.

―――, ‘Ibn Taymiyya’s Fiṭralism and Alvin Plantinga’s Religious Epistemology: A Study in Comparative Theories of Belief’. Monday 6^th June 2022, BRAIS, Edinburgh.

―――, ‘Late Ottoman Art of Disputation: The Risāla fī Ādāb al-Baḥth wa-l-Munāẓara of Ismāʿīl Gelenbevī (d.1206/1791)’. Friday 17^th December 2021, İSAR, Istanbul, Turkey.

―――, ‘Abū ’l-Muʿīn al-Nasafī’s Critique of Various Definitions of Knowledge in Tabṣirat al-Adilla: A

Philosophical Analysis’. Saturday 4^th December 2021, ASIPT Conference, Harvard University, Boston.

―――, ‘Death and Destruction in the Earth’s Zone of Life: Examining Some Islamic Evolutionary Theodicies’. Wednesday 5^th July 2021, LUSSI, Leiden.

―――, ‘A Very Heated Affair: Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī’s Justification for Hell’s Unending Chastisement’. Wednesday 23^rd June 2021, BRAIS, London.

―――, ‘Bayʿa to the Machines: How is a Ṣūfī to be within a post-Human Ṭarīqa?’ Saturday 1^st May 2021, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul.

―――, ‘Prior Cognitive Information and An Islamic Argument from Reason’. Wednesday 1^st March 2021, Rationality, Theism and Atheism Conference, Tehran.

―――, ‘Ibn Taymiyya’s Case for Fiṭralism and the Kalām Evidentialist Rejoinder’. Saturday 6^th December 2020, ASIPT Conference, Harvard University, Boston.

―――, ‘Destructibles and Indestructibles: Examining Some Problems Related to Resurrection and Bodily Continuity in Medieval Islamic Theology’. Monday 15^th April 2019, BRAIS, Nottingham.

―――, ‘God was and No Thing was with Him’: Exploring Muslim Views on God and Abstract Objects’. Tuesday 22^nd February 2019, Helsinki Analytic Theology Workshop, University of Helsinki, Finland.

―――, ‘Evil in the Biosphere: Towards an Islamic Evolutionary Theodicy’. Wednesday 11^th April 2018, BRAIS, Exeter.

―――, ‘The Lord of the Excluded Middle: The Qur’ān, Logic and Arguments’. Wednesday 12^th April 2017, BRAIS, Chester.

―――, ‘Into the Eschaton: Possible Animal Theodicies in Māturīdite Thought’. Sunday 29^th October 2017, Kalam Research & Media Conference, Amman, Jordan.

RESEARH PROJECTS

1. Lead Researcher in ‘Beyond Foundationalism: New Horizons in Islamic Analytic Theology’ (John Templeton Grant: Award ID: 61383)
2. Team Coordinator in ‘Revelation and Communication: A Muslim Theological Perspective’ with

International Foundation for Muslim Theology (John Templeton Grant: Award ID: 61439)

• Paraconsistent logic.
• Virtue epistemology.
• Resurrection and bodily identity in Islamic thought.
• Moral realism and divine command ethics.
• God and abstract objects.
• Disability, metaphysics and justice.
• Islamic argumentation theory. 10.Education Theory

RESEARCH INTEREST

• Sufism.
  • Logic
  • Modernism and Islamic thought.
  • Islamic philosophical theology.
  • Arabic linguistics and rhetoric.
  • Qur’ān studies.
  • Islamic law and legal theory.
  • Ḥadīth studies.
  • Islamic Education.

• Critical Thinking.

TEACHING INTEREST

• Sufism.
  • Philosophy.
  • Theology.
  • Logic
  • Ethics
  • Islamic Law
  • Education

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND OTHERS

1. British Association of Islamic Studies (BRAIS)
2. Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics (SSME)
3. The British Society for the Philosophy of Religion (BSPR)
4. The Journal of Analytic Theology (JAT)
5. American Academy of Religion (AAR)
6. International Qur’an Studies Association (IQSA)
7. European Academy of Religion (EuAR)

REFEREES

Dr. Mustafa Shah SOAS

Ms99@soas.ac.uk (academic)

Dr. Ramon Harvey Cambridge Muslim College

rh@cambridgemuslimcollege.ac.uk (academic)

Professor of Political Economy and Islamic Finance, University of Dundee, School of Business

Head of Islamic Finance and Development Studies, Ibn Rushd Centre of Excellence for Islamic Research

Email: a.avdukic@ibnrushdcentre.org

Background:

Dr Alija Avdukic has a BA in Islamic studies from the prestigious University of Al – Azhar (Egypt) and a BA from the University of Damascus (Syria). After his undergraduate degrees he pursed his postgraduate education gaining an MA in Islamic Economics, Finance and Management from the University of Gloucestershire. He completed his PhD in Islamic Political Economy and Finance at the University of Durham.

Alija Avdukic teaches and supervises research on Islamic Political Economy; Islamic Moral Economy; Islamic Banking, Finance and Management; Political Economy of Development in the Muslim world and Islamic studies related subjects. He is Deputy Director of MSc Islamic Finance programme at University of Dundee; Visiting professor for Master programme in Islamic banking and finance for the joint programme School of Economics, University of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina) with University of Bolton (UK). Finally, he is a visiting research fellow of Durham Centre in Islamic Economics, Banking and Finance (UK).

Alija Avdukic research includes the theoretical construction of Islamic moral/political economy as guiding theory for Islamic finance. Building on the earlier contributions in the post-colonial period made by scholars from the sub-continent, Dr Avdukic aims to systemize Islamic political economy as the defining framework for the moral or social economy. He also develops the discourse around social and develop-mentalist failure of Islamic charitable and financial sectors in relation to the expressed ideals of Islamic moral economy. Dr Avdukic is also involved in empirical research in various aspects of Islamic economics and finance.

Current Publication

“Maqasid al-Shari’ah (Higher Ethical Objective) Augmented Framework for Assessing the Ethical Performance of Islamic Banks: Performance and Determinants ”, Journal of Business Ethics. (2019).

“History of Economic Thoughts in the Ibrahimc Religions: A Case of Religiously Informed Regulative Environment” (Palgrave Edited Book on Islamic Economics and Finance) (2019). “Utility Theory: an Islamic Political Economy Perspective” (Palgrave Edited Book on Islamic Economics and Finance) (2019).

“Accounting for the Ideology and Culture within Literature: Deconstruction of Arguments”, Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics and Business Law . (2019).

Expected or under review papers:

“The Islamic institutional ethics in the writings of Ibn-Khaldun, Al-Mawardi’s, Al- Ghazzali, and Ibn-Taymiya” (Paper submitted to Journal of History of Political Economy) (2019)

“When It Comes to Risk, is Sukuk Better than Conventional Bonds? A Comparative Study of Nasdaq Securities” (Journal of Research of International Business and Finance) (2019).

Education

Ph.D in Islamic Economics and Finance, Durham Doctoral Training Centre for Islamic Economics and

Finance, Durham University Business School, Durham University, UK. Title of the Thesis: Essays In

Islamic Political and Moral Economy: Explorations in Microeconomic Foundations of Islamic

Economics.

M.A. in Islamic Banking, Finance and Management, Distinction, University of Gloucestershire, UK.

Title of Dissertation: Microfinance from an Islamic Perspective for Achieving Sustainability.

Postgraduate Diploma in Islamic Studies (Shari’ah Law), Distinction, Fatih Institute of

High Education, Damascus, Syria.

B.A. (Hons.) in English Language and Education, First Class, Damascus University, Damascus, Syria.

B.A. (Hons.) in Usul al Deen, (Islamic Studies, Shari’ah), First Class, Al Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.

Advanced Diploma in Arabic Language, Distinction, Abu-Nur Foundation, the Department for Arabic

Language, Damascus, Syria.

Career overview

Head of Department for Islamic Economics, Banking and Finance and Islam and Sustainable

Development in Leicestershire, course accredited by Newman University, Birmingham, UK.

Visiting lecturer at Master Programme of Bolton University in Partnership with Schools of Economics

of Sarajevo University, Bosnia and Herzegovina, teaching two modules Advanced Islamic Banking and

Islamic Commercial Law. Oral examination (viva) for dissertation is a condition for completion of

master level according to regulations of Sarajevo University in Bosnia and Herzegovina; I have

examined two master dissertations.

Visiting lecturer in Islamic Economics and Finance Programmes at Al-Maktoum College of Higher

Education, Dundee, Scotland, in collaboration with Scottish Qualification  Authority (SQA) and Dundee

University (Honorary Fellow).

Assistant to Director of Durham Islamic Finance Programmes for organising the Durham Islamic

Finance Summer Schools. Occasional and event related assistantship involving preparation and

organisation of conferences; editorial assistantship with the Review of Islamic Economics Journal; and

other books published by the Director. Publication

Avdukic A. and Asutay, M. (2017). “An Analytical Exploration and Assessment of the

Social Risks Faced

by Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions: Credibility, Legitimacy, Sustainability and

Trust Risks”, in

Islamic Banking: Risk Management, Regulation and Supervision. Edward Elgar Publishin.

Forthcoming publications

“Framing Islamic Economics as Islamic Moral Economy”,Alija Avdukic, Corresponding

Author:

Lecturer at Markfield Institute of Higher Education, UK and Mehmet Asutay, Professor of Middle

Eastern and Islamic Political Economy & Finance at Durham University Business School. Paper

submitted for review in Journal of Economic and Social Review (2017).

“Islamic Banking Premium: Signalling, Piety or Both?”, Alija Avdukic, Corresponding

Author: Lecturer

at Markfield Institute of Higher Education, UK, Nathan Berg, Associate Professor, Department of

Economics, University of Otago, NZ and Mohamed El-Komi, Assistant Professor, Department of

Economics, American University in Cairo, Egypt (Paper is submitted for review in special issue of

Islamic Finance JEBO 2017).

“Locating Islamic Moral Economy within the Heterodox Economics: Convergence of the Economics

Thinking”. Paper submitted for review in Kyoto University Journal in Islamic Studies.

Papers Presented at Conferences and Seminars

“The Impact of Islamic Banking on Economic and Social Development: An Empirical Analysis”,

proposed to be presented on International Conference on Islamic Finance, Islamic Economic

Development and Sustainability, jointly organised by Durham Centre for Islamic Economics, Durham

University Business School, Durham University, England and Finance and Centre for Excellence in

Islamic Finance (CEIF), Institute of Management Sciences, Peshwar, Pakistan on 25th – 26th July 2016

at Durham University Business School in Durham, UK.

“Embededdness as a Feature of Islamic Moral Economy: Exploring the Divergence of

Islamic Finance

from Embeddedness” Paper presented at the SASE Conference on ‘Moral Economies,

Economic

Moralities’ on June 24-26, 2016 organised by University of California-Berkeley, USA. “Social and Financial Performance of Islamic Financial Institutions” Paper presented at the BRISMES/

EURAMES annual conference on 23-26 June 2015 hosted by London School of Economics, London, UK.

“An Analytical Exploration of Islamic Social Welfare Policies as Practiced by Islamic Financial

Institutions: Realities and Suggestions”. Paper presented at The First International

Conference on

Shari’ah Oriented Public Policy in Islamic Economic System, on 30 – 31 March 2015, Ar-Raniry State

Islamic University, Banda Aceh, Indonesia.

“An Analytical Exploration and Assessment of the Social Risks Faced by Islamic Banks

and Financial

Institutions: Credibility, Legitimacy, Sustainability and Trust Risks”. Paper presented

at the 6th

International Conference on Islamic Banking and Finance: Risk Management, Regulation and

Supervision, organised by IRTI-IDB and Borsa İstanbul with the Support of Central

Bank of the

Republic of Turkey and the World Bank-Global Islamic Finance Development Centre (WB-GIFDC) on

16th -17th September 2014 at Borsa Istanbul, Turkey.

“Beyond Financial and Operational Risks into Social Risks Faced by Islamic Banks and

Financial

Institutions”. Paper presented on 8th Kyoto-Durham International Workshop in Islamic Economics and

Finance on 25th – 26th August 2014, at Durham University Business School, organised by Centre for

Islamic Area Studies at Kyoto University; Centre for On-Site Education and Research,

Graduate School

of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan and Durham Doctoral Training Centre in

Islamic Finance, Durham University Business School, Durham University, UK. “Social Welfare Functions and Public Choice from the Islamic Political Economy Perspective: Correcting

the Failure of Islamic Banking and Finance”. Paper presented at 7th Kyoto-Durham International

Workshop in Islamic Economics and Finance New Horizons in Islamic Economics:

Socio-Economic Role

of Islamic Finance and its Potential at the Post-Capitalist Era 1st -2nd October 2013, Centre for Islamic

Area Studies at Kyoto University, KIAS, Japan.

“Locating Islamic Moral Economy within the Heterodox Economics: Convergence of

the Economics

Thinking”. Paper presented at 6th Kyoto-Durham International Workshop in Islamic Economics and

Finance: New Horizons in Islamic Economics: Islamic Finance and Economy and Finance in the Muslim

World: Theories and Realities, Durham, 17th-18th July 2012, Durham Islamic Finance Doctoral

Training Centre, Van Mildert College, Durham University, UK

Research and Teaching Interests:

• Islamic Political/Moral Economy (Islamic Economics)
• • International Development and Finance
• • Sustainable Development
• • Public Choice Theory and Welfare Function
• • Islamic Banking and Financial Transactions
• • Corporate Finance
• • Islamic Microfinance and Entrepreneurship
• • Islamic Capital Market
• • Risk Management in Islamic Financial Institutions
• • Comparative Islamic Commercial and Transactional Law (Muamalat)
• • Insurance (Takaful)
• • Ethics, Social and Governance Issues (maqasid al-Shari’ah)

Professional Membership and Alumni

• Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
• Member of British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES)
• Member of International Association for Islamic Economics (IAIE)
• Durham University Business Alumni (DUBA)

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 7^th 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, 25^th November 2014
3. Constitutionismand the Dār Issue: Understanding Non-Muslim Loyalty and Citizenship a Study of their Rights in Arms Trade: Thursday 7^th 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)