Meet our Faculty
Prof. Kamal Abu-Deeb – Arabic Literature
Mr Rafiq Ajani – (IIS) Islamic Law; Ethics, including bioethics; Philosophy
Dr Omar Alí-de-Unzaga – (IIS) Qur’anic Studies
Mr Hasan Al-Khoee – (IIS) Arabic Public Oratory in the Early Muslim Period
Dr Nuha Al-Shaar – (IIS) Classical Arabic Literature and Thought
Dr Omar Anchassi – (Exeter) Islamic Law and Legal Theory
Prof. Ali Asani – (Harvard) Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures
Dr Karen Bauer – (IIS) Islamic Social and Intellectual History; Qur’anic Studies
Dr Stephen Burge – (IIS) Qur’anic Studies; Devotional Literature
Dr Alessandro Cancian – (IIS) Cultural Anthropology of Muslim Societies
Dr Valentino Cattelan – Islamic Law
Dr Farhad Daftary – (IIS) Ismaili Studies
Dr Dagi Dagiev – (IIS) History and Religion of Contemporary Societies in Post-Communist Central Asia; Re-emergence of Islam
Dr Maria De Cillis – (IIS) Islamic Philosophers and Shi’i Studies
Dr Zamira Dildorbekova – (IIS) Islam and Modernity in Post-Soviet Tajikistan
Dr Hadi Enayat – (Richmond) Religion and International Relations; Sociology of Law; Secularism
Dr Aziz Esmail – (IIS) Topics in the Philosophy of Religion
Dr Janis Esots – (IIS) Shi’i Studies
Dr Laila Halani – (IIS) Anthropology; Gender; Ismaili Studies; Contemporary Islamic movements
Prof. Gerald Hawting (SOAS) – Early Development of Islam in the Middle East; Premodern Islamic and Middle Eastern History
Dr Shainool Jiwa – (IIS) Fatimid History
Dr Christie Johnson – (IIS) Arabic Verbal Arts; Theories of Literature and the Arts
Mr Zulfiqar Khimani – (IIS) Critical social theory; Contemporary Muslim communities; Media studies; Philosophy
Dr Tullio Lobetti – (IIS) Philosophy of Religion
Dr David Lunn – (SOAS) Hindi and Urdu Literature
Dr Toby Mayer – (IIS) Qur’anic Studies
Dr Anna McSweeney – (Sussex) Islamic Arts and Architecture
Dr Orkhan Mir-Kasimov – (IIS) Intellectual History of Shi’i Islam; Islamic Mysticism and Messianism
Dr Gurdofarid Miskinzoda – (IIS) Shi’i Heritage
Mr Luay Mohammed – (ISMC/IIS) Arabic Language
Mr Abdul Jalil Muhammad – (ISMC/IIS) Arabic Language
Mr Wael Odeh – (ISMC/IIS) Arabic Language
Dr Daryoush Mohammad Poor – (IIS) Ismaili Philosophy
Dr Mohammad Rasekh – (IIS) Philosophy of Law; Law and Society; Comparative Law
Dr Maryam Rezaee – (IIS) Research Methods; Persian Language
Dr Farouk Topan – (ISMC) Swahili Literature; Islam in African Literature
Please note that some faculty members may not teach every year.