Professor Sajjad Rizvi
BA, MA, MPhil (Oxon), PhD (Cantab)
Extension: 4037
Telephone: 01392 724037
Associate Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Director of Education
Broadly speaking I work on Islamic intellectual history. My particular interests which grew from my PhD at Cambridge on the philosophy of Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d. c. 1635) lie in post-Avicennan philosophical, theological and mystical traditions. My second main area of interest is Quræanic exegesis and textual hermeneutics.
I am currently completing three projects: an analysis of the noetics of Mullā Ṣadrā, a monograph on Mīr Dāmād, and an introduction to philosophy in the Islamic east and a reader of the works of Mullā Ṣadrā. My next major projects are mapping Islamic philosophical traditions in India 1450-1850, and writing an intellectual history of apophasis in Islamic thought.
I have advised various government departments and private sector concerns on Iraq, Iran, Shii Islam in the Gulf, and Islam in Britain and Europe.
I also run a blog that has my various musings on philosophy both Islamic and otherwise as well as notes on manuscript research and related critical editions. The blog entitled Hikmat is available here.
