Professor Robert Gleave
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Telephone: 01392 724025
Professor of Arabic Studies
Rob Gleave's current research projects include:
1. Principal Investigator on the project "Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Islamic Thought", a three-year project, funded by the AHRC and ESRC as part of the Global Uncertainties Programme. The total budget is £594,251, and the project commences on 1st January 2010. The project will examine the legal reasoning of Muslim jurists and ethical thinkers by which acts of violence are justified or condemned. The Research Fellow attached to this project is Dr Istvan Kristo-Nagy. More information on the project can be found on the project website, www.livitproject.net. There are two PhD studentships associated with the project , for details of how to apply for these click here.
2. Principal Investigator for the three-year collaborative project (2009-2011) between the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) and the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS), sponsored by the British Academy, entitled Clerical Authority in Shi'ite Islam: The Seminaries of Iraq and Iran with a total budget of £142,000 for visiting fellowships, workshops, and research projects. This project will bring together a collection of international scholars to work collaboratively between March 2009 and March 2012. For further details, visit the project website - www.thehawzaproject.net. The first workshop of the project was held on 2nd June, 2009. For details click here. The workshop was followed by a lecture by Professor Roy Mottahedeh on "The Hawza in Contemporary Iraq". This was followed by other workshops at the University of Exeter and Royal Holloway College. The most workshop was be held on Thursday 13th June 2010 at the British Academy in London, with a public lecture the preceding evening by Dr Sabrina Mervin entitled "Can we write a history of the Hawza? Challenges, Issues and Prospects". Workshops are scheduled for December 2010 and March 2011.
For a list of Rob Gleave's recent papers and conference contributions, click here.
His recently completed projects include:
3.Principal Investigator of the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Networks and Workshops Project: Network of British Researchers and Practitioners of Islamic Law. For more information on the project, click here.
4. Co-Investigator on the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Project: Shah Abbas and the Safavid Shrines (started January 2008, with Dr Sheila Canby of the British Museum). For a project summary, click here. The exhibition linked with this project was on show at the British Museum. Click here for details.
5. Rob Gleave was co-Investigator of the British Academy Sponsored project, "Shiism and Identity" (for more information click here). This is a combined project of the British Institute of Persian Studies, and the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. The project committee included Dr Paul Luft (University of Durham) Professor Ali Ansari (University of St Andrews) and Dr Lloyd Ridgeon (University of Glasgow). This project consisted of two workshops - one in Exeter held in December 2008 (for a programme, click here, and for a report, click here) and one in St Andrews in February 2008. The project reached its final stages in March 2008 with a conference ("Modern Shi'ism and Identity") at the University of Glasgow organised by Dr Lloyd Ridgeon (for a programme, click here, a report click here).
Rob Gleave is also Chair of the Advisory Board for the UK Islamic Studies Network, funded by HEFCE, Honorary Librarian of the British Institute for Persian Studies and President of the International Society for Islamic Legal Studies.
