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 PROPHECY
Qur′an
Understanding the Qur′an in Text and Context - Richard C. Martin
Qur′an as Spoken Word - William Graham
The Tasks and Tradition of Interpretation - Jane Dammen McAuliffe
The Dilemma of the Literary Approach to the Qur′an - Nasr Abu-Zayd
Structure and the Emergence of Community - Angelika Neuwirth
Sound, Spirit, and Gender in Surat al-Qadr - Michael Sells
The Light Verse: Qur′anic Text and Sufi Interpretation - Gerhard Böwering
Some Key Ethical Concepts of the Qur′an - Fazlur Rahman
The Will in the Qur′an - Frederick M. Denny
Themes and Topics - Dan Madigan
Readings of the Qur′an in London and Najaf: John Wansbrough and Muhammad Ba—qir al-Sadr - Chibli Mallat
History and Nostalgia: Reflections on John Wansbrough′s The Sectarian Milieu - Norman Calder
Prophecy
Images of Muhammed in the Work of Iqbal: Tradition and Alterations - Earle H. Waugh
The Signs of Prophecy: The Emergence and Early Development of a Theme in Arabic Theological Literature - Sarah Stroumsa
Pre-Existence and Light: Aspects of the Concept of Nu—r Muhammad - Uri Rubin
The Story of the Portraits of the Prophet Muhammad - Oleg Grabar
Devotion to the Prophet and His Family in Egyptian Sufism - Valerie J. Hoffman-Ladd
Metaphors and Sacred History: The Genealogy of Muhammad and the Arab "Tribe" - Daniel Martin Varisco
The Quest of the Historical Muhammad - Francis E. Peters
VOLUME 2: ISLAMIC THOUGHT, LAW AND ETHICS
Necessary Knowledge in Islamic Theology - Binyamin Abrahamov
Aspects of the Creed of Imam Hanbal: A Study of Anthropomorphism in Early Islamic Discourse - Wesley Williams
The Unknowability of God in al-Ghazali - David B. Burrell
Observations on the Muslim Concept of Evil - Gustave E. von Grunebaum
Divine Preordination and Human Hope a Study of the Concept of Bada′ in Imam - Mahmoud Ayoub
Conditions for Meaningful Comparative Philosophy - Seyyed Hussein Nasr
Two Muslim-Christian Debates from the Early Shi′ite Tradition - David Thomas
Traditionist-Jurisprudents and the Framing of Islamic Law - Christopher Melchert
Dead Tradition: Joseph Schacht - Ze′ev Maghen
Was the Gate of Ijtihad Closed? - Wael B. Hallaq
Signs as Evidence: The Doctrine of Ibn Taymiyya (1263–1328) and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (D. 1351) on Proof - Baber Johansen
Islamic Law and Muslim Minorities - Khaled Abou el-Fadl
The Islamization of Criminal Law - Rudolph Peters
Why You Should Poison Your Husband: Note on Liability in Hanaf - Colin Imber
Mahr: Legal Obligation or Rightful Demand? - Mona Siddiqui
Ethical Presuppositions of the Qu′ran - George F. Hourani
Ethics in Medieval Islamic Philosophy - Charles E. Butterworth
The Answers of Applied Islamology - Mohammed Arkoun
VOLUME 3: WORSHIP AND RITUAL
The Essence of Religious Experience in Islam - Isma′il R. al-Faruqiq
The Aesthetic Reception of the Qur′an as Reflected in Early Muslim History - Navi′d Kermani
Islam and Art - Isma′il R. al-Faruqiq
Impurity/No Danger - Kevin Reinhart
The Hajj and the Study of Islamic Ritual - Marrion Katz
Financial Worship: The Qur′anic Injunction to Almsgiving - Jonathan Benthall
Eating and Fasting for God in Sufi Tradition - Valerie Hoffman
Miracles in Ši′i Thought: A Case-Study of the Miracles Attributed to Imam Ga′far al-Šadiq - Judith Loebenstein
Some Aspects of Mystical Prayer in Islam - Annemarie Schimmel
Rehearsed Spontaneity and the Conventionality of Ritual: Disciplines of "Salat" - Saba Mahmoud
On Scriptural Essentialism and Ritual Variation: Muslim sacrifice in Sumatra and Morocco - John R. Bowen
The Birth of the Prophet: Ritual and Gender in Turkish Islam - Nancy Tapper and Richard Tapper
Women, Saints and Sanctuaries - Fatima Mernissi
Mazar Festivals of the Uyghurs: Music, Islam and the Chinese State - Rachel Harris and Rahilä Dawut
Death, Funeral Processions, and the Articulation of Religious Authority in Early Islam - Muhammad Qasim Zaman
VOLUME 4: GENDER AND POLITICS
Women and Hadith Transmission: Two Case Studies - Asma Sayeed
Disciplining Wives: A Historical Reading of Qur′an 4:34 - Manuela Marin
Muftis and Matrimony: Islamic Law and Gender in Ottoman Syria - Judith E. Tucker
Women in the Afterlife: The Islamic View as Seen from Qur′an and Tradition - Jane I. Smith and Yvonne Y. Haddad
Islamic Feminism and Its Discontents: Toward a Resolution of the Debate - Valentine M. Moghadem
Gendered Transformations: Beauty, Love, and Sexuality in Qajar Iran - Afsaneh Najmabadi
Internationalising the Conversation on Women′s Rights: Arab Countries Face CEDAW Committees - Ann Elizabeth Mayer
Exploited by Whom? An Alternative Perspective on Humanitarian Assistance to Afghan Women - Sultan Barakat and Gareth Wardell
The Saudi Public Speaks: Religion, Gender and Politics - Monsoor Moaddel
The Political Concepts of Islam - Ira M. Lapidus
The Origins and Objectives of Islamic Revivalist Thought, 1750 - 1850 - Ahmad Dallal
Rhetoric, Discourse and the Future of Hope - Richard W. Bulliet
Public Islam and the Problem of Democratisation - Robert W. Hefner
Three Islamic Strands in the South African Struggle for Justice - Farid Esack
Contentious Public Religion: Two Concepts of Islam in Revolutionary Iran - Ali Shariati and Abdolkarim Soroush - Behroz Ghamani Tabrizi
Globalization and the Politics of Religious Knowledge: Pluralizing Authority in the Muslim World - Peter Mandaville