Professor Mona Siddiqui

Professor of Islamic Studies
Director of Centre for the Study of Islam

contact details

tel: +44 141 330 4604
email: Mona.Siddiqui@glasgow.ac.uk  
office hours: None.  Contact Professor Siddiqui to make an appointment. 

about Prof Siddiqui

Mona Siddiqui is Professor of Islamic Studies and founding director of the Centre for the Study of Islam at the University of Glasgow. She researches on classical Islamic law and theology, contemporary law and ethics, and Christian-Muslim relations. Siddiqui is the chair of the BBC's Scottish Religious Advisory Committee and is a regular broadcaster and commentator on radio and other media. She is a member of the Commission on Scottish Devolution and the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Islam-West Dialogue. She holds three honorary doctorates. During 2010-2012 she holds the Chair in Islam and Citizenship at the Universities of Tilburg and Utrecht. In 2011 she will be a Visiting Professor at the Angelicum University in Rome, sponsored by the Russell Berrie Foundation. Since February 2011, she has been an associate scholar with Georgetown University’s Berkeley Centre on their Templeton funded Religious Freedom Project. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Society of Arts and in June 2011, was awarded an OBE for her contribution to interfaith relations.

Professor Siddiqui is currently: 

• The Chair of the BBC's Scottish Religious Advisory Committee.
• A member of the Commission on Scottish Devolution.
• A member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Islam-West Dialogue.
• The Chair in Islam and Citizenship at the Universities of Tilburg and Utrecht 2010-2012.
• Visiting Professor at the Angelicum University in Rome 2011. 

Professor Siddiqui: forthcoming lectures

teaching areas

• Religious Studies
• Islam

research interests

• Classical Islamic law
• Law and gender
• Early Islamic theology and thought
• Contemporary legal and ethical issues in Islam
• Modern Arabic literature

areas of postgraduate supervision

Areas for prospective postgraduate research might include:

• Classical Islamic law
• Law and gender
• Early Islamic theology and thought
• Contemporary legal and ethical issues in Islam
• Modern Arabic literature

recent publications

'Being Human in Islam' in M. Ipgrave and D. Marshall (eds.) Humanity, Texts and Contexts, Georgetown University Press, 2011.

'Clarity of Confusion, Classical Fiqh and the Issue of Logic,' in J.Nielsen and L.Christoffersen (Eds.), Shari'a as Discourse, Legal Traditions and the Encounter with Europe, Ashgate, 2010.

'Seeing the face of the Lord: Hope or heresy?' in The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth: Christ, Scripture and the Church, A.Paddison and A.Pabst (eds), SCM Veritas 2009.

'Is Islamic Law ethical?' Justice Journal Vol 5:1, London, 2008

'Drinking and Drunkenness: Ibn Rushd and the Issue of Intoxication,' in Studies in Islamic Law, Festschrift for Colin Imber, Oxford University Press, November 2007,  ISBN 9780199534913.

'Divine law and Divine Love: Complimentary or Competing claims on Human Dignity,' in Paul Middleton (ed), God of Love and Human Dignity, Essays in Honour of George Newlands,  T&T Clark, September 2007, ISBN, 0567031659.

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CV (including all publications)

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