Mr. Aurangzeb Haneef
Teaching Fellow
Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Selected Qualifications:
- Ph.D. Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh, April 2022. Focus: Sufyan al-Thawri (d. 778 CE) and Early Qur'anic Exegesis (Tafsir)
- MTS (Master of Theological Studies), Harvard University, 2009. Focus: Islamic Studies
- International MA in Peace, Conflict, and Development Studies, Universitat Jaume I (Spain) and University of Innsbruck (Austria), 2007. Focus: Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding.
Research Interests:
- Early Qur'anic exegesis (Tafsir)
- Qur'anic studies
- The oral and the written in early Islam
- Text and interpretation
- Education and transmission of knowledge in early Muslim societies
- Religion, ethics, and justice
- Religion, violence/conflict, and peacebuilding
- Religion and ecology
- Sufism
Undergraduate courses offered at LUMS:
- SS 101: Islamic Studies
- HIST 235: Jihad: A Social, Political, and Theological History
- HIST 236: Classical Sufism
- REL 362/HIST-337: Qur'an and its Interpreters: Between text and context
Academia.edu: https://edinburgh.academia.edu/AurangzebHaneef
Blog: https://totbatot.wordpress.com/
Photography on Instagram: @aurangzebh