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Dr. Aurangzeb Haneef
Assistant Professor
Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences
aurangzeb.haneef@lums.edu.pk
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Introduction

I am an Assistant Professor in the Study of Religion with a specialization in Islamic Intellectual History of the Formative and Classical periods complemented by a scholarly interest in the modern period. I have been associated with LUMS in various teaching roles since 2010. 

 

Selected Qualifications

Ph.D. Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh, 2022

Thesis: "The Tafsīr of Sufyān al-Thawrī (d. 161/778): A study of its provenance, sources, methods, and topics."

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

Thesis: Religion and Peacebuilding: Nonviolence and the Use of Force in Islam

 

Research Interests

  1. Early Qur'ānic Exegesis (Tafsīr)
  2. Qur'ānic studies
  3. The Oral and the Written in Early Islam
  4. Text and Interpretation
  5. Education and Transmission of Knowledge in Early Muslim Societies
  6. Religion, Ethics, and Justice
  7. Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
  8. Religion and Ecology
  9. Sufism

 

Undergraduate courses

  1. Current courses
    • SS-101: Introduction to Islamic Studies
    • REL-235: Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
    • REL-362/HIST-337: Qur'an and its Interpreters: Between Text and Context
    • REL-363: Jihad: Religion and Warfare in the Islamic Context
  2. Future courses
    • REL-2XX: The Sacred Nature: Religion and Ecology
    • REL-3XX: The Prophetic Word: The Origins, Development, and Function of Hadith
    • REL-3XX: Qur'ān in the Modern: Interpreting an Ancient Text
  3. Previous courses
    • HIST 235: Jihad: A Social, Political, and Theological History
    • HIST 236: Classical Sufism

 

Academic and other links

Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7038-1257

Academia.edu: https://edinburgh.academia.edu/AurangzebHaneef

Academic blog: https://totbatot.wordpress.com/

Photography: @AurangzebH

Twitter: @AurangzebHaneef

 

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