Our research

Current research projects

The CSI brings together existing research projects including:

• Law and Learning in Imami Shi'ite Islam (LAWALISI) - A 5 year project funded by the European Research Council. Research Fellows: Dr Omar Anchassi, Dr Raha Rafii, Dr Kumail Rajani, Dr Pooya Razavian
  
  

Past research projects

• 'Islam and water management in a changing climate: building ‘faith-based evidence’ – a six-month project, funded by the GCRF Facilitation Fund, examining religious engagement with climate change in the Muslim world, with a focus on Tunisia, and in collaboration with Institut des Régions Arides (Tunis) and the Centre for Water Systems (Exeter). Postdoctoral research fellow:  Dr Davide Pettinato
• Understanding Shari'a: Past Perfect/Imperfect Present - This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 649307. Postdoctoral research fellow: Dr Sejad Mekic.
• Understanding Religion and Law: Fatwas Muftis and Law in British Islam (www.britishfatwas.co.uk) 2015-2017
• Islamic Reformulations project: Belief, Violence, Governance 2013-2016
• The Sharia Project (2011-2013)
• Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Islamic Thought (LIVITproject.net) 2010-2013
• Contextualising Islam in Britain (a joint project with Cambridge and Westminster universities)
  - Executive Summary Part I 
  - Executive Summary Part II
  - Full Report
• The Hawza project on culture and learning in Shi’ite Islam (2009-2013)