Contributors

Belal Abu-Alabbas is a British Academy Newton International Fellow at Exeter University and a Lecturer at Al-Azhar University of Cairo. He publishes in the fields of Islamic intellectual history, sectarianism in the formative period of Islam, Islamic legal thought, and the history of the hadith corpus.

Aun Hasan Ali is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received his Ph.D. from McGill University’s Institute of Islamic Studies in 2016. His research focuses on Imami Shi'i intellectual history, especially substantive law and jurisprudence.

Dale Correa (Middle Eastern Studies Librarian and History Coordinator, The University of Texas Libraries) received her Ph.D. from New York University (2014) and her M.S. in Library & Infor­mation Science from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (2019). Her scholarship focus­es on knowledge transmission in digital contexts and Islamic epistemology.

Amin Ehteshami is a postdoctoral fellow at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He obtained his doctorate in Islamic studies from the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on Islamic intellectual history.

Robert Gleave is Professor of Arabic Studies, University of Exeter. He was Director of the Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shi'ite Islam (www.lawalisi.eu) project, funded by the Europe­an Research Council from 2016 to 2022. His main areas of research are Islamic legal theory, the Shi'ite tradition of legal thinking and hermeneutics and the interface of law and ethics in Islam. In 2022 he was selected as a British Academy Wolfson Professor (2023-6).

Nebil Husayn is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Miami. His research broadly considers the development of Islamic theology, historiography and debates on the cali­phate. He is the author of Opposing the Imam (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Sarah Islam received her Ph.D in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 2022. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow in the project, “Interactive Histories, Co-Produced Communi­ties: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam” co-directed by David Nirenberg (Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton) and Katharina Heyden (University of Bern, Switzerland).

Hadi Qazwini holds a Ph.D. in Religion/Global Islam from the University of Southern California as well as advanced traditional Islamic studies training from the seminary in Qum, Iran. His are­as of academic research are in Islamic intellectual history, with a focus on theology, law, and Imami Shi‘ism.

Raha Rafii is an Honorary Fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. She received her Ph.D. in medieval Islamic history and jurisprudence from the Depart­ment of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kumail Rajani is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. Though primarily focused on the origins and development of Shi'i hadith corpora, his research interests include Islamic law, legal theory, and Shi'i studies more broadly. In 2022, he was awarded British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship for three years (2023-5).

Hassan Rezakhany is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Jyväskylä. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Jan Thiele is a scholar in Islamic intellectual history based at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid. His publications include Kausalität in der mu'tazilitischen Kosmologie (2011), Theologie in der jemenitischen Zaydiyya (2013) and Philosophical Theology in Islam: Later Ash'arism East and West (2020, co-edited with Ayman Shihadeh).

Yusuf Ünal is an associate research scholar at the Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Is­lamic Law and Civilization at Yale Law School. His scholarship focuses on the religious transfor­mation, violence, and polemical encounters in the early modern Middle East.