Position:
Lecturer in Islamic Studies and History
Faculty / College Address:
Oriental Institute / Pembroke College
Email:
ahmad.khan@pmb.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
- Early and medieval Islamic history
- Islamic historiography (Arabic and Persian)
- Rebels, scholars, and heretics
- Early modern Islamic reform
- Modern contestations in the Islamic world
Current Projects:
- Islamic reform in the early modern period
- Modern contestations between Salafīs and late Sunnī traditionalists
- Heresy and orthodoxy in medieval Islamic societies
Courses Taught:
- FHS Islamic Religion (pre-modern and modern)
- Introduction to Islam (pre-modern and modern)
- Various undergraduate and graduate options, especially on Islamic law, history, reform, Salafism, and Islamic fundamentalism
Recent Publications:
Books:
- E. Kendall and A. Khan (eds.), Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Readings of the Classical Heritage, Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
Articles:
- ‘Modern Contestations between Salafis and Late Sunni traditionalists’, in E. Kendall and A. Khan (eds.), Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Readings of the Classical Heritage, Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
- ‘Religious Reformers as Historians in the Early Modern Period’, forthcoming.
- ‘Framing Cities and Heresies in the Ninth Century’, forthcoming.
- ‘Shaping (Islamic) Authority in the Middle Ages’, in J. Leemans, B. Meijns, and S. Boodts (eds.) Shaping Authority in the Middle Ages (Turnhout, Belguim: Brepols, 2015).
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