Dr Lloyd Ridgeon

Lecturer in Islamic Studies

contact details

+44 141 330 6127
Lloyd.Ridgeon@glasgow.ac.uk  
office hours: 1:00-3:00 Mondays

teaching areas

• Classical Islamic Studies
• Modern Iran
• Modern Islamic Thought
• Islamic Understandings of Muhammad

research interests

• Islamic history, theology and politics
• Classical and Modern Sufism
• Iranian history and culture
• Persian literature

areas of postgraduate supervision

Areas for prospective postgraduate research might include:

• Islamic history, theology and politics
• Classical and Modern Sufism
• Iranian history and culture
• Persian literature

recent publications

Persian Metaphysics and Mysticism (Curzon 2002), ISBN 070070666-6, pp. 241.

Sufi Castigator: Ahmad Kasravi and the Iranian Mystical Tradition (Routledge, 2005), ISBN 0415316359, pp. 332.

“War and Peace in Islam” in P. Schmidt-Leukal (ed), War and Peace in World Religions (SCM Press, 2004). ISBN 0334029384.

“Makhmalbaf’s Broken Mirror: The Socio-Political Significance of Modern Iranian Cinema” Durham Middle East Papers, 2000.

“The Islamic Apocalypse: Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Moment of Innocence” in Brent Plate (ed), Representing Religion in World Cinema (Palgrave: 2003). ISBN 1403960518. pp. 145-58.