Abdul Rahman Mustafa (LLB; M.St.; Ph.D)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Christian Muslim Studies Network

Biography

Qualifications

 

LLB (1st class Hons.) London School of Economics & Political Science

M.St. Modern History University of Oxford

Ph.D. Arabic & Islamic Studies Georgetown University

 

Undergraduate teaching

 

Global Religions (Islam)

Conflicts and Controversies in Islam: Theology, Law and Politics (THET10067)

Islamic Law: From Prayer to Politics

 

Postgraduate teaching

 

Islam, Law and Human Rights (THET11052)

Research summary

 

Islamic Studies

Theology

Law 

History

Critical Theory 

 

Current research interests

Current projects include books and articles on: The philosophical, theological and legal thought of Ibn Taymiyyah and Ibn al-Qayyim; Islamic legal reform and Islamic ritual law; the role of the senses in Islamic law; the role of the senses in Islamic law; translations and commentaries of hadith literature in Sunni Islam.

Past research interests

Contemporary interpretations of Islamic in Muslim countries; Islamic sex laws, Procedural law in Islam; Islam in South Asia.
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