Research

The Iqbal Centre is committed to a research agenda that promotes Critical Muslim Studies and related fields. Centre Members are presently engaged in research in the following areas:

Critical Muslim Studies, Decolonial thought, Islamic law and legal theory; Hanafi jurisprudence; Maturidi, Murji'i, Khariji and Mu'tazili theology; Islamic Finance; Taymiyyan Studies; Iqbalian thought; post-madrhhabi thought; hadith qudsi.

Salhi, K.  (2022). Women in Algeria. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History  link

McLoughlin, S. (2017). 'Locating Muslim diasporas: multi-locality, multi-disciplinarity and performativity'. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 40(3), 421–427. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2017.1249503

Sheikh, M. and T. Islam (2018). 'Islam, Alcohol, and Identity: Towards a Critical Muslim Studies Approach'. In Reorient: Journal of Critical Muslim Studies. PDF

Sheikh, M. (2017). A Treasury of Ibn Taymiyyah: Timeless Wisdom of His Words (Treasury in Islamic Thought and Civilisation). Kube Publishing.

Sheikh, M. (2016). Ottoman Puritanism and Its Discontents: Ahmad al-Rumi al-Aqhisari and the Qadizadelis. Oxford University Press.

Sheikh, M. and M.S. Ebrahim (2016). 'Debt Instruments in Islamic Finance: A Critique'. In Arab Law Quarterly.

Sayyid, S. (2015 3rd ed.). A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism. Zed Books.

Sayyid, S. (2015). Recalling the Caliphate. London: Hurst Publishers.

Sheikh, M. and M.S. Ebrahim (2015). 'The Mudaraba Facility: Evolution, Stasis and Contemporary Revival'. In Arab Law Quarterly.

Islam, T. (2015). 'Scholastic traditional minimalism: A critical analysis of intra-Sunni sectarian polemics'. PhD, University of Exeter.

Sheikh, M. and M.S. Ebrahim (2014). 'Hybrid Islamic Finance Instruments: An Usuli-Rationalisation'. In Arab Law Quarterly.

Sayyid, S. and A. Vakil (2010). Thinking through Islamophobia: Global Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.