июня 2018

Proclaimed publicly in the Abbasid capital in 402 AH / 1011 CE, and subsequently read out across the Abbasid lands, the principal purpose of Baghdad manifesto was to invalidate the Alid lineage of the Fatimids and thus their claim to be the descendants of the Prophet, through his daughter, Fatima, and Shi‘i Imam and fourth caliph (d. 661).

">Ali b. Abi Talib; and by these means to render illegitimate their claim to be vested with the sole legitimate, universalist authority and leadership of the Islamic world.

STEP Faculty The faculty is comprised of lecturers who have made a significant contribution to scholarship and are engaged in innovative research projects in their respective fields. The current lecturers include IIS, IOE and visiting scholars from leading international academic institutions: Professor Afzal Ahmed – Teaching, Learning and Assessment; Lifelong Learning; Communication and Teaching Subjects through Art Forms. Dr Omar Ali-De-Unzaga (IIS) – Qur’an; Qur’anic Exegesis; Tafsir. Dr Nuha Al-Shaar (IIS) – Classical Arabic literature and thought; Ethics in Muslim traditions; Qur’anic exegesis. Professor Ali Asani (Harvard) – Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures. Ms Rosa Barugh (IIS) – Global Ethics; Post-Graduate Teaching; International Teaching and International Programmes. Dr Stephen Burge (IIS) – Hadith Studies; Hermeneutics; Qur'anic Exegesis; Literary Theory. Dr Maria De Cillis (IIS) – Islamic Philosophy; Shi’i Studies; Islamic Theology. Dr Alessandro Cancian (IIS) – Shi'i Sufism; Twelver Shi'ism; Mystical exegesis of the Qur'an; Anthropology of Islam. Dr Dagi Dagiev (IIS) – Regime Transitions in Central Asia; Democratisation, Nationalism and Islam; Shi’i and Ismaili Studies. Dr Farhad Daftary (IIS) – Ismaili History; Shi’i Studies; Shi’i Intellectual History. Dr Zamira Dildorbekova (IIS) – Islam in Central Asia; Ismaili Studies; Curriculum Development; Research Methods. Dr Hakim Elnazarov (IIS) – Central Asian Studies; Islam in Central Asia; Ismaili Studies. Mr Stephen Ford (IOE) – Software Development; TEFL; Educational Technology Dr Karim Gulamali (IIS) – Religious Education; Teacher Education. Dr Laila Halani (IIS) – Anthropology; Gender; Ismailis in Modern times; Contemporary Islamic movements. Mr Nazmin Halani (IIS) – Education; Religious Education; Curriculum Development. Mr Faheem Hussain (IIS) – Sensory History; Influence of state policies on history textbooks; Adolescent moral development. Dr Abdulmamad Iloliev (IIS) – Central Asian Studies; Islamic mysticism; Ismaili devotional literature; Islamic popular culture. Dr Nadia Eboo Jamal – Islamic Studies; Persian history and culture in the period of Mongol rule. Dr Shainool Jiwa (IIS) – Ismaili History and Thought; Fatimids. Dr Hassan Al-Khoee (IIS) - Arabic Public Oratory in the Early Muslim Period Dr Christie Johnson (IIS) – Arabic Verbal Arts; Theories of Literature and the Arts. Ms Sophie Kerslake (IOE) – Classroom based action research; Developing innovation in education; Curriculum. Dr Tullio Lobetti (IIS) – Philosophy of Religion; Hermeneutics and Epistemology; Theory in the Study of Religions. Dr Toby Mayer (IIS) – Muslim philosophy; Esoteric Scriptural Exegesis; Mysticism; Qur’anic Hermeneutics. Dr Orkhan Mir-Kasimov (IIS) – Shi'i Islam; Islamic mysticism and messianism. Dr Gurdofarid Miskinzoda (IIS) – Shi’i Islam; Early Islam; Muslim Historical and Literary Tradition. Dr Farouk Mitha (Victoria) – Teaching Shakespeare in Secondary Schools; Muslim intellectual history; Curriculum development in the Humanities. Dr Farid Panjwani (UCL) – Philosophy of education; Contemporary education in Muslim societies; Religious Education. Dr Daryoush Mohammad Poor (IIS) – Shi’i intellectual history; Ismaili Philosophy; Contemporary political theory. Dr Maryam Rezaee (IIS) – Shi’i Studies; Women and Development; Cultural Studies; Gender; Social Policies; Research Methods. Mr Riaz Rhemtulla (IIS) – Teacher Education; Religious Education; Curriculum Development and Implementation. Ms Alexis Stones (IOE) – Sacred art; Museum education and Theatre-in-Education. Dr Farouk Topan (AKU) – Oral and written African Literature; Swahili Culture, spirit possession, and Islam in East Africa. Dr Roy Wilson (IIS) – Applied Language Studies; International English Language Teaching; Academic literacy.