Professor Mona Siddiqui
Professor of Islamic Studies and Public Understanding
Director of Centre for the Study of Islam
contact details
tel: +44 141 330 4604
email: msi@arts.gla.ac.uk
office hours: None. Contact Professor Siddiqui to make an appointment.
about Prof Siddiqui
Mona Siddiqui started her academic life with a BA in Arabic and French, which led eventually to a PhD in Classical Islamic Law. She came to the University of Glasgow in 1996 and two years later founded the Centre for the Study of Islam, which she directs. She provides invaluable consultancy work to institutions such as museums, local government and educational institutions, and also provides advice in legal cases, including anti-terrorism cases. Professor Siddiqui is well known for her broadcasting work, including regular radio appearances, and writes frequently for the Scottish and British press. She has also travelled the world at the invitation of diverse institutions to talk about her life and work. In 2008 she was the Jantina Tammes Visiting Professor at the University of Groningen's Faculty of Theology.
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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
‘The Ethics of Gender Discourse in Islam’, (ed.) Michael Ipgrave, Scriptures in Dialogue, pp.72-80, Church House Publishing, 2004, ISBN 07151 40124
‘Jesus in Popular Muslim Thought’, (ed.) Greg Barker, Jesus in the World’s Faiths, Orbis Books, 2005, ISBN 157075-573-6.
‘Islam in Scotland after 1945’, (eds.) Colin MacLean and Kenneth Veitch, A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology, Vol.12, pp.281-294, European Ethnological Research Centre, Edinburgh 2006, ISBN 10:085976650 0
with Max Farrar, ‘When Alienation turns to Nihilism’, Conversations in Religion and Theology, Blackwell Publishing, 4:1, 2006, pp.109-114. (response article)
‘Islam: Issues of Political Authority and Pluralism’, Political Theology, 7:3, pp.337-350, Equinox Publishing, July 2006
`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.
`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.
select media contributions
- BBC Radio Four:
- The following articles have been reproduced with the kind permission of The Tablet:
- 16 Feb 2008: Where sharia can seem problematic
- 12 Jan 2008: Blaming another faith
- 20 Oct 2007: Peace comes about when we make coexistence our goal
- 7 July 2007: Faith requires voices and action
- 10 Feb 2007: There can be no room for just a little bit of discrimination
- 23 Sept 2006: On the path to mutual respect
- Interview with Thirdway Magazine, March 2008, vol.31
- Book review in The Scotland on Sunday
- January 2008: Hit and Amis
- Articles in The Sunday Herald
- Articles in The Herald
- Conrtibution to The Globe and Mail:
- Article in The Birmingham Post:
- Recognition in The Huddersfield Daily Examiner:
CV (including all publications)
- Download/read: Mona Siddiqui's CV (doc.)