Aurangzeb Haneef

Thesis title: The Tafsīr of Sufyān al-Thawrī (d. 161/778): A Study of its Provenance, Sources, Methods, and Topics

PhD in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Year of study: 6

  • School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

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16 George Square

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9LD

Biography

Qualifications

  1. Harvard University, Divinity School, Cambridge, MA, USA, June 2009

       Master of Theological Studies – Islamic Studies

  1. Universidad Jaime I (UNESCO Chair for Philosophy of Peace), Spain; and University of Innsbruck, Austria, June 2007

       International Master in Peace, Conflict, and Development Studies (Thesis title: Religion and Peacebuilding: Paradigm of Peace, Nonviolence and the Use of Force in Islam)

Research summary

  • Early Islamic History
  • Islamic Intellectual History
    • History of Text and Knowledge Transmission
    • Early Qurʾānic Exegesis (tafsīr)
    • Early Ḥadīth
    • Early Sufism
  • Critical issues in contempoaray Muslim societies
    • Text and society: legal and the social
    • Religion, conflict, and peacebuilding
    • Religion and the state
  • Classical Arabic Literature (mainly for pleasure and nor for reasearch)
  • Islamic Spain (mainly for pleasure and nor for reasearch)

Current research interests

PhD research: Sufyān al-Thawrī (d. 161/778) and Early Qurʾānic Exegesis

  1. “Education in Muslim Societies: Learning from the Past” in Basit, Abdul (ed.) (2012): Global Muslim Communities at a Crossroads: Understanding Religious Beliefs, Practices, and Infighting to End the Conflict, Praeger: Santa Barbara.
  2. “Islam: A system of Salaam/Peace” in Dietrich, Wolfgang et al (eds.) (2011): International Handbook on Peace, Palgrave McMillan: London/New York.
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