School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics,
Department of Languages
& Department of Literature and Translation
Dr Mustafa Shah
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Key information
Key information
- Roles
- School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies
- Department
- School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Department of Languages & Department of Literature and Translation
- Qualifications
- BA, PhD (London)
- Subject
- Languages & Literature and translation
- Building
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office
- 434a
- Email address
- ms99@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone number
- 020 7898 4341
Biography
Mustafa Shah has been based in the Near and Middle East Department for many years.
His research interests include early Islamic literary texts; the history of the Arabic linguistic tradition; the literature of qirāʾāt; classical exegesis; traditionalist theological discourses, hadith studies and law. He has edited two major collections on exegesis and hadith and is currently preparing monographs on classical exegesis for (EUP) and a further one on the history of Arabic linguistic thought.
In addition to compiling a biographical dictionary of classical Islamic civilization and culture he worked with Professor Abdel Haleem on the Oxford Handbook of Qur’anic Studies and is separately editing a handbook on hadith. Among his on-going projects are a translation and study of the medieval treatise on the principles of law by Ibn Qudāma, Rawḍat al-nāẓir, and an edition of an Ashʿarite theological treatise. He is also the editor of two book series, Themes in Qurʾānic Studies and Monographs in Arabic and Islamic Studies.
Research interests
The early Arabic linguistic tradition; classical Islamic theology and jurisprudence
PhD Supervision
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Mahammed Bouabdallah | Muḥammad Ibn Yūsuf al-Sanūsī and His Kalām. |
| Runako Charles | The Legacy of al-Imām al-Dāraquṭnī: The Study of Traditions in the 4th/10th Century |
| Ummugulsum Kurukol | Motivations of Muslim Travellers: The Travel Memoirs of Abū Ḥāmid Al-Gharnaṭī (d. 565/1169-70) and Evliya Çelebi (d.1096/c.1685) |
| Muhammad Nabil | Charities in the Qurʾān and aḥādīth, and charitable work in multicultural societies |
| Fatima Rashid | The Qurʾānic arrangement of sūras: Continuity and progression in language and themes |
| Zhicheng Ye | Ma'rūf al-Karkhī and Islamic asceticism in the context of early Abbasid society |
Publications
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