Dr. Aurangzeb Haneef
Assistant Professor
Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences
I am an Assistant Professor in the Study of Religion with a specialization in early Islamic intellectual history and a scholarly interest in the modern period. I have been associated with LUMS since 2010.
Selected Qualifications
- Ph.D. Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh, Nov 2022.
- Thesis: "The Tafsir of Sufyan al-Thawri (d. 778 CE): A study of its provenance, sources, methods, and topics."
- 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
- Previous courses
- SS 101: Islamic Studies
- HIST 235: Jihad: A Social, Political, and Theological History
- HIST 236: Classical Sufism
- Present courses
- SS 101: Islamic Studies
- REL 362/HIST 337: Qur'an and its Interpreters: Between text and context
- REL 363: Jihad: Religion and Warfare in the Islamic Context
- Future courses
- REL3XX: The Prophetic Word: The Origins, Development, and Function of Hadith
- REL 2XX: Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
- REL 2XX: The Sacred Nature: Religion and Ecology
Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7038-1257
Academia.edu: https://edinburgh.academia.edu/AurangzebHaneef
Academic blog: https://totbatot.wordpress.com/
Photography: https://www.instagram.com/aurangzebh/