Professor Oliver Scharbrodt

Selected publications

• Scharbrodt, Oliver. 2025. “Transnational Shia Networks and the Islamic Republic of Iran.” In The Wiley Companion to Religion, Politics, and Nations, edited by Jocelyne Cesari. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell.
• Scharbrodt, Oliver. 2022. Muhammad ʿAbduh: Modern Islam and the Culture of Ambiguity. London: I.B. Tauris. Translated into Arabic by Tariq Ghanim, 2023, as Muḥammad ʿAbduh: al-islām al-ḥadīth wa-thaqāfat al-iltibās. Beirut: Namaa.
• Scharbrodt, Oliver. 2022. “Divine Sovereignty and Clerical Authority in Early Shiʿi Islamism: Bāqir al-Ṣadr (1935–80) and Taqī al-Mudarrisī (b. 1945) on the Islamic State.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.
• Scharbrodt, Oliver, and Yafa Shanneik, eds. 2020. Shiʿa Minorities in the Contemporary World: Migration, Transnationalism and Multilocality. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Scharbrodt, Oliver. 2020. “Anti-Sufism in Early Qajar Iran: Āqā Muḥammad ʿAlī Bihbahānī (1732–1801) and His Risāla-yi khayrātiyya.” In Sufis and Their Opponents in the Persianate World, edited by Reza Tabandeh and Leonard Lewisohn, 327–363. Irvine, CA: Jordan Center for Persian Studies.