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 two projects: 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 philosophy 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.
