| Adjunct Professor: Dr Sajjad Rizvi |
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Dr Sajjad Rizvi is Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, having previously taught at the Universities of Cambridge and Bristol. Coming from a Twelver Shi'i background from the Indian subcontinent and being a lineal descendant of the Prophet, he was educated at Westminster School in London, read Modern History at Christ Church, Oxford University, and completed his PhD in Islamic philosophy in 2000 at Pembroke College, Cambridge University. A specialist on Islamic intellectual history and Muslim political thought, Dr Rizvi has published widely on Islamic philosophy, Shi'ism and Qur'anic hermeneutics. He is the author of Mulla Sadra (Oxford University Press, 2006), and with Feras Hamza, Understanding the Word of God (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2007). He is currently completing projects on Islamic philosophical traditions in the early modern period, and the divergent narratives of Jihad in contemporary Islamic thought. Dr Rizvi is actively engaged in policy work and involved with a number of governmental agencies and interfaith groups. He has both advised and given interviews to all the major broadcast channels, including the BBC, Channel 4, CNN and other media organisations on aspects of the contemporary Muslim preoccupations and other Islamic issues. |
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