Islam

Mona Siddiqui is Professor of Islamic Studies and Public Understanding at the University of Glasgow. She began her academic life with a BA in Arabic and French at Leeds University which led eventually to a PhD in Classical Islamic Law at Manchester University. She came to the University of Glasgow in 1996 and two years later founded the Centre for the Study of Islam, which she directs. Professor Siddiqui′s research and publication areas are Classical Islamic Law and Theology and Christian-Muslim textual engagement. Professor Siddiqui is well known as a public intellectual and as a broadcaster. She makes regular radio appearances, and writes frequently for the Scottish and British press, as well as being the Chair of the BBC′s Religious Advisory Committee. She is an international speaker and has travelled the world at the invitation of diverse institutions to talk about her life and work. She holds 3 honorary doctorates from British universities for her contribution to religious studies and Islamic Studies. In 2005 she became an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Society of Arts. In 2008 she was the Jantina Tammes Visiting Professor at the University of Groningen′s Faculty of Theology. She is a member of the Commission on Scottish Devolution and a member of the Global Agenda Council on Faith for the World Economic Forum.

• VOLUME 1: QUR′AN AND PROPHECYQur′anUnderstanding the Qur′an in Text and Context - Richard C. MartinQur′an as Spoken Word - William GrahamThe Tasks and Tradition of Interpretation - Jane Dammen McAuliffeThe Dilemma of the Literary Approach to the Qur′an - Nasr Abu-ZaydStructure and the Emergence of Community - Angelika NeuwirthSound, Spirit, and Gender in Surat al-Qadr - Michael SellsThe Light Verse: Qur′anic Text and Sufi Interpretation - Gerhard BöweringSome Key Ethical Concepts of the Qur′an - Fazlur RahmanThe Will in the Qur′an - Frederick M. DennyThemes and Topics - Dan MadiganReadings of the Qur′an in London and Najaf: John Wansbrough and Muhammad Ba—qir al-Sadr - Chibli MallatHistory and Nostalgia: Reflections on John Wansbrough′s The Sectarian Milieu - Norman CalderProphecyImages of Muhammed in the Work of Iqbal: Tradition and Alterations - Earle H. WaughThe Signs of Prophecy: The Emergence and Early Development of a Theme in Arabic Theological Literature - Sarah StroumsaPre-Existence and Light: Aspects of the Concept of Nu—r Muhammad - Uri RubinThe Story of the Portraits of the Prophet Muhammad - Oleg GrabarDevotion to the Prophet and His Family in Egyptian Sufism - Valerie J. Hoffman-LaddMetaphors and Sacred History: The Genealogy of Muhammad and the Arab "Tribe" - Daniel Martin VariscoThe Quest of the Historical Muhammad - Francis E. PetersVOLUME 2: ISLAMIC THOUGHT, LAW AND ETHICSNecessary Knowledge in Islamic Theology - Binyamin AbrahamovAspects of the Creed of Imam Hanbal: A Study of Anthropomorphism in Early Islamic Discourse - Wesley WilliamsThe Unknowability of God in al-Ghazali - David B. BurrellObservations on the Muslim Concept of Evil - Gustave E. von GrunebaumDivine Preordination and Human Hope a Study of the Concept of Bada′ in Imam - Mahmoud AyoubConditions for Meaningful Comparative Philosophy - Seyyed Hussein NasrTwo Muslim-Christian Debates from the Early Shi′ite Tradition - David ThomasTraditionist-Jurisprudents and the Framing of Islamic Law - Christopher MelchertDead Tradition: Joseph Schacht - Ze′ev MaghenWas the Gate of Ijtihad Closed? - Wael B. HallaqSigns as Evidence: The Doctrine of Ibn Taymiyya (1263–1328) and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (D. 1351) on Proof - Baber JohansenIslamic Law and Muslim Minorities - Khaled Abou el-FadlThe Islamization of Criminal Law - Rudolph PetersWhy You Should Poison Your Husband: Note on Liability in Hanaf - Colin ImberMahr: Legal Obligation or Rightful Demand? - Mona SiddiquiEthical Presuppositions of the Qu′ran - George F. Hourani Ethics in Medieval Islamic Philosophy - Charles E. ButterworthThe Answers of Applied Islamology - Mohammed ArkounVOLUME 3: WORSHIP AND RITUALThe Essence of Religious Experience in Islam - Isma′il R. al-FaruqiqThe Aesthetic Reception of the Qur′an as Reflected in Early Muslim History - Navi′d KermaniIslam and Art - Isma′il R. al-FaruqiqImpurity/No Danger - Kevin Reinhart The Hajj and the Study of Islamic Ritual - Marrion KatzFinancial Worship: The Qur′anic Injunction to Almsgiving - Jonathan BenthallEating and Fasting for God in Sufi Tradition - Valerie HoffmanMiracles in Ši′i Thought: A Case-Study of the Miracles Attributed to Imam Ga′far al-Šadiq - Judith LoebensteinSome Aspects of Mystical Prayer in Islam - Annemarie SchimmelRehearsed Spontaneity and the Conventionality of Ritual: Disciplines of "Salat" - Saba MahmoudOn Scriptural Essentialism and Ritual Variation: Muslim sacrifice in Sumatra and Morocco - John R. BowenThe Birth of the Prophet: Ritual and Gender in Turkish Islam - Nancy Tapper and Richard TapperWomen, Saints and Sanctuaries - Fatima MernissiMazar Festivals of the Uyghurs: Music, Islam and the Chinese State - Rachel Harris and Rahilä DawutDeath, Funeral Processions, and the Articulation of Religious Authority in Early Islam - Muhammad Qasim ZamanVOLUME 4: GENDER AND POLITICSWomen and Hadith Transmission: Two Case Studies - Asma SayeedDisciplining Wives: A Historical Reading of Qur′an 4:34 - Manuela MarinMuftis and Matrimony: Islamic Law and Gender in Ottoman Syria - Judith E. TuckerWomen in the Afterlife: The Islamic View as Seen from Qur′an and Tradition - Jane I. Smith and Yvonne Y. HaddadIslamic Feminism and Its Discontents: Toward a Resolution of the Debate - Valentine M. MoghademGendered Transformations: Beauty, Love, and Sexuality in Qajar Iran - Afsaneh NajmabadiInternationalising the Conversation on Women′s Rights: Arab Countries Face CEDAW Committees - Ann Elizabeth MayerExploited by Whom? An Alternative Perspective on Humanitarian Assistance to Afghan Women - Sultan Barakat and Gareth WardellThe Saudi Public Speaks: Religion, Gender and Politics - Monsoor MoaddelThe Political Concepts of Islam - Ira M. LapidusThe Origins and Objectives of Islamic Revivalist Thought, 1750 - 1850 - Ahmad DallalRhetoric, Discourse and the Future of Hope - Richard W. BullietPublic Islam and the Problem of Democratisation - Robert W. HefnerThree Islamic Strands in the South African Struggle for Justice - Farid EsackContentious Public Religion: Two Concepts of Islam in Revolutionary Iran - Ali Shariati and Abdolkarim Soroush - Behroz Ghamani TabriziGlobalization and the Politics of Religious Knowledge: Pluralizing Authority in the Muslim World - Peter Mandaville