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Professor Robert Gleave

Publications

Books

Religion and Society in Qajar Iran, London, Routledge, 2009. Full Article Publisher Website

Scripturalist Islam: The History and Doctrines of the Akhbari School of Shii Thought, Brill, 2007.

with A Gleave, A Christmann, Christmann A,Gleave R (eds) Studies in Islamic law: a Festschrift for Colin Imber, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007. Publisher Website

Religion and Society in Qajar Iran, Routledge Curzon, 2005.

with E Kermeli, Islamic law, I. B. Tauris, 2001.

Inevitable doubt: Two Theories of Shi'i Jurisprudence, Leiden, Brill Academic Pub, 2000.

with E Kermeli, Islamic law, I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 1997.

Chapters

Muslim Jurisprudence, in Albertini T (eds) Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy, OUP, 2011

Shi'i Jurisprudence during the Seljuq period: Rebellion and Public Order in an Illegitimate State, in Lange C,Mecit S (eds) The Seljuqs: Islam revitalised?, Edinburgh: EUP, 2011

Prayer and Prostration: Imami Shi'i Discussions of al-sujud ala al-turba al-husayniyya, in Khosronejad P (eds) The Art and Material Culture of Iranian Shi'ism: Iconography and Religious Devotion in Shi'i Islam, London: I B Tauris, 2011

Introduction, in Calder N (eds) Islamic Jurisprudence in the Classical Era, Cambridge Univ Pr, 2010, 1-21

Afterword: Scholarly Priorities and Islamic Studies: The Reviews of Norman Calder, in Calder N,Imber C (eds) Islamic Jurisprudence in the Classical Era, Cambridge Univ Pr, 2010, 201-222

The Ritual Life of the Shrines, in Canby S (eds) Shah 'Abbas: The Remaking of Iran, London: , 2009

Public Violence, State Legitimacy: The Iqamat al-hudud and the Sacred State, in Lange C,Fierro M (eds) Public Violence in Islamic Societies: Power, Discipline, and the Construction of the Public Sphere, 7th-19th Centuries CE, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009, 256-275

Mīrzā Muḥammad al-Akhbārī’s Kitāb al-Jihād, in Amir-Moezzi M,Asher MB,Hopkins S (eds) Le Shi'isme Imamite Quarante Ans Apres - Hommage a Etan Kohlberg, Paris: BREPOLS, 2009, 209-224 Publisher Website

Sunni Law, in Rippin A (eds) The Islamic World, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2008, 167-178

Scripturalist Sufism and Scripturalist Anti-Sufism: Theology and Mysticism amongst the Shi’i Akhbariyya, in Sufism and Theology, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007, 158-176

Crimes and against God and violent Punishment in al-Fatawa al-Alamgiriyya, in Hinnells J,King R (eds) Religion and Violence in South Asia, Routledge, 2007, 83-106

The Qadi and the Mufti in Akhbari Shii Jurisprudence, in Heinrichs W,Bearman P,Weiss B (eds) The Law Applied: Contextualizing the Islamic Shari’a, Studies in Honor of Frank Vogel, London: I.B.Tauris, 2007, 235-258

Question and Answers in Akhbari jurisprudence, in Christmann A,Gleave R,Imber C (eds) Studies in Islamic law, Oxford University Press, 2007, 73-122

Wala in Shi’ite Law, in Bernard M,Nawas J (eds) Patronate And Patronage in Early And Classical Islam, Leiden: Brill, 2006, 134-166

Intra-madhhab Ikhtilaf in Late Classical Imami Shii Law, in Peters R,Bearman P,Vogel F (eds) The Islamic School: Evolution, Devolution and Progress, Harvard University Press, 2006

Shi’ism, in Blackwells (eds) Blackwells Companion to the History of the Middle East, , 2005

The ‘Ulama’ and the British in the Early Qajar Period, in Martin V (eds) Anglo-Iranian Relations, London: Royal Asiatic Society/Routledge, 2005, 36-54

Jihad and Religious Legitimacy in the Early Qajar State, in Gleave R (eds) Religion and Society in Qajar Iran, London: Routledge, 2004, 41-70

Khumayni and Khu’i on ijtihad and qada, in Roberson B (eds) Shaping the current Islamic Reformation, London: Cass, 2003

Imami Shi'i Refutations of qiyas, in Weiss B (eds) Studies in Islamic Legal Theory, Brill, 2002, 267-292

The ‘First Source’ of Islamic Law: Classical Muslim Legal Exegesis of the Qur’an, in Dair RO,Lewis A (eds) Religion and Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, 145-161

Two Classical Shi’i Theories of qada, in Mojaddedi J,Samely A,Hawting G (eds) Studies in Islamic and Middle Eastern Texts and Traditions in Memory of Norman Calder, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001, 105-121

Elements of Religious Discrimination in Europe: the position of Muslim Minorities, in Konstadinidis SV (eds) A people's Europe, Ashgate Pub Ltd, 1999, 95-107

Biography and Hagiography in Tunukabuni’s Qisas al-'Ulama', in Melville C (eds) Proceedings of the third European Conference of Iranian Studies, Wiesbaden: Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 1999, 237-255

Shi'ite Exegesis and the Interpretation of Qur'an 4:24, in Jones A (eds) University lectures in Islamic studies, , 1998, 79-112

Jihad, Khums and Legitimacy in Pre-Qajar Iran, in Proceedings Association des Chercheurs Iraniens 1998, Paris: ACI, 1998

Akhbari Shi'i Usul al-fiqh and the Juristic theory of Yusuf b. Ahmad al-Bahrani, in Gleave R,Kermeli E (eds) Islamic law: Theory and Practice, I B Tauris & Co Ltd, 1997, 24-45

Journal articles

Recent Research into the History of Early Shi'ism, History Compass, vol. 7, no. 6, 2009, 1593-1605 Publisher Website DOI

The ‘Future’ of Islamic Studies: A Clutch of Conferences, Journal of Quranic Studies, vol. 10, no. 1, 2009, 153-157 Publisher Website DOI

Conceptions of Authority in Iraqi Shiism: Baqir al-Hakim, Ha’iri and Sistani on Ijtihad, Taqlid and Marja’iyya, Theory, Culture and Society, vol. 24, no. 2, 2007, 59-78 DOI

Modern Shi’i Discussions of khabar al-wahid: Sadr, Khumayni and Khu’i, Oriente Moderno, vol. 21, 2002, 189-205

Political aspects of modern Shi'i legal Discussions: Khumayni and Khu'i on ijtihad and qada, Mediterranean Politics, vol. 7, no. iii, 2002, 96-116 Publisher Website DOI

Between Hadith and Fiqh: Early Imami Collections of Akhbar, Islamic Law and Society, vol. 8, no. 3, 2001, 350-382 DOI

Elements of Religious Discrimination in Europe: the position of Muslim Minorities”, Encounters, no. ii, 1998, 169-180

The Akhbari-Usuli Dispute in Tabaqat Literature: an analysis of the biographies of Yusuf al-Bahrani and Muhammad Baqir al-Bihbihani, Jusur: UCLA Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 1994, 79-109

Peshuheshha-ye Akhir-e gharbiyan dar bareh-ye tarikh-e mazhabi-ye 'asr-e Safavi, Kitab-e Mah, 20-27

The ijaza from Yusuf al-Bahrani (d.1186/1772) to Muhammad Mahdi ‘Bahr al-'Ulum’ (d.1212/1797-8), Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, vol. 1994, 115-123