People

Affiliate Members

Name	Faculty	School	Job title	Location	Areas of expertise
Shaykh Arif Abdul Hussain			Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies and Director of AMI	Al-Mahdi Institute, Birmingham
Dr Yunis Alam		Social Sciences	Head of Department - Sociology/Crimimology	University of Bradford	Ethnic relations, consumption, radicalisation, social cohesion, multiculturalism, ethnography, public sociology
Rashad Ali			Senior Fellow	Institute for Strategic Dialogue	Islamic legal theory; Maliki jurisprudence; hadith sciences and literature; Islamic economics and Islamic thought
Dr Hashim Bata			Lecturer in Islamic Legal Studies and Managing Director of AMI	Al-Mahdi Institute, Birmingham	Islamic legal theory, the history and development of Shiʿism, Islamic theology, and mysticism
Dr Ali-Reza Bhojani		Department of Theology and Religion	Assistant Professor in Islamic Ethics	University of Birmingham; Al-Mahdi Institute	Modern Twelver Shi'i legal theory and its value as a discourse for exploring questions across philosophy and theology, in particular ethics, epistemology and hermeneutics
Dr Izram Chaudry		Social Sciences	Lecturer in Criminology	University of Bradford	Racism and Ethnicity Studies, Islamophobia, Critical Muslim Studies, Relational Sociology (Education, Family, Community, Sport) as well as Qualitative Methodology
Dr David Drennan	Islamic Studies			Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilization, Charles Sturt University	Contemporary Islamic legal thought; Muslim minority communities; Islamic reformist movements; transnational and transcultural Islamic movements
Professor Rob Gleave		Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies	Professor of Arab Studies	University of Exeter	Islamic legal theory and practice, particularly legal hermeneutics; the history of Shi’ite legal thought and institutions.
Abdul Hai			Project Manager	London	Community outreach; book binding; Islamic literary tradition
Mr Ridwaan Haris			Solicitor	Bradford
Dr Hina Khalid	Divinity		Independent Researcher	University of Cambridge (alumni)	Muhammad Iqbal; Rabindranath Tagore; Sufism; Islamic theology; Hindu theology and devotion; Religions of South Asia
Dr Shehla Khan		School of Global Affairs and Politics	Associate Lecturer	University of Derby	Decoloniality and the Islamicate; Critical Muslim Studies; liberal world-making, war, and epistemic justice; securitisation and subjectivity
Dr Joseph Lumbard		College of Islamic Studies	Associate Professor of Quranic Studies	Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar	Islamic philosophical theology, Sufism, Quranic studies and decoloniality
Dr Shamim Miah	Department of Education	School of Business, Education and Law	Senior Lecturer	University of Huddersfield	Framing of race and religion in policy; race and education policy; Muslims in Britain; Ibn Khaldun: social theory and education; Muslim intellectual history
Professor Gavin Picken	College of Islamic Studies		Professor of Islamic Studies	Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar	Islamic law, Islamic theology, Sufism, translation of Islamic literature
Dr Chella Ward	Arts and Social Sciences		Lecturer	Open University	Greek and Latin literature; Critical Muslim Studies; Decoloniality