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Professor Muhammad A S Abdel Haleem, BA (Cairo), PhD (Cantab), FIL (London)
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Profile
Interested in Arabic language and literature, the Qur'an and Hadith and comparative religion. Research is mainly on Qur'anic themes, the language and style of the Qur'an and their effects on Arabic literature. Teaches BA and MA Arabic, the Qur'an and Hadith, English-Arabic-English translation and Islam in modern society.
Interests
Islamic studies, Cultural studies; Islamic law
Publications
Journal
Editor Journal of Qur’anic Studies Edinburgh University Press 1999 to date
Books
English Translations of the Qur’an: the Making of an Image, SOAS, 2004
The Qur'an: A New Translation (with introduction), Oxford University Press 2004
Edited with Adel Omar Sherif and Kate Daniels, Criminal Justice in Islam: Judicial Procedure in the Shari'a, published by IB Tauris, London & New York, 2003.
Understanding the Qur'an: a study of themes and style, I.B. Tauris, 2001.
Chance or Creation? God’s Design in the Universe, attributed to Jahiz, translation and introduction, Ithaca Press, 1995.
English-Arabic Business Dictionary (with E. Kay), Graham and Trotman, London, 1984.
Omani Poetry, in Arabic, published as a monograph by the Omani Ministry of National Heritage and Culture, Oman, 1986.
The Superiority of Dogs Over Many of Those Who Wear Clothes, edition, translation and introduction (with G. R. Smith), Arris & Phillips, 1978.
The Creed of Islam (translated from Arabic) World of Islam Festival Trust, London 1978.
In preparation:
Dictionary of Qur’anic Usage, with Elsaid Badawi, to appear in 2005.
Salah (Islamic formal prayer): its religious, cultural, social, and political dimensions, to appear in 2005.
Chapters in Books
‘Qur’an and Hadith’ in Cambridge Companion to Islamic Theology, Ed. T. Winter, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (to appear in 2004)
‘Compensation for Homicide in Islamic Shari'a’, in Criminal Justice in Islam: Judicial Procedure in the Shari'a, edited by Muhammad Abdel Haleem, Adel Omar Sherif and Kate Daniels, IB Tauris, London & New York, 2003, pp 97-108.
'Human Rights in Islam and the United Nations Instruments', in Democracy, the Rule of Law and Islam, eds. Eugene Cotran and Adel Omar Sherif, Kluwer Law International, The Hague, London, Boston (1999).
'War and Peace in Islam,' incorporated in The Crescent and the Cross: Muslim and Christian Approaches to War and Peace, eds Abdel Haleem, Ramsbotham, Risaluddin and Wicker, Macmillan 1998.
‘Life and Beyond in the Qur'an', in Beyond Death, ed. Christopher Lewis and Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Macmillan Publishing, London, 1995, pp. 66-79.
‘Early kalam' in The Routledge History of Islamic Philosophy, eds. Oliver Leaman, S.H. Nasr, Routledge, 1995.
‘Medical Ethics in Islam' in Choices and Decisions in Health Care, ed. A. Grubb, John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, 1993, pp.1-20.
‘Context and Internal Relationships: Keys to Qur'anic Exegesis' in Approaches to the Qur'an, A. Shereef and G. Hawting (eds.) Routledge, London, 1993, pp.71-98.
‘The Qur'an', in G.R. Hawting (ed), Sacred Writings in Oriental and African Religions, SOAS (External Services Division (Occasional Paper XII), London 1986, pp. 17-22.
‘Al-Sayyab; a study of his poetry' in Studies in Modern Arabic Literature, ed. R.C. Ostle, Arris & Phillips, 1975, pp. 69-85.
Articles in Refereed Journals
'The Prophet Muhammad as a Teacher: implications for Hadith literature', The Islamic Quarterly XLVI, 2, 2002, pp.121-137.
‘Qur'anic Orthography: the written presentation of the recited text of the Qur'an', Islamic Quarterly, Vol. XXXVIII, 3, 1994, pp.171-192.
‘Grammatical Shift for Rhetorical Purposes: Iltifat and related features in the Qur'an', BSOAS, 1992, LV, 3, pp.407-432.
‘Early Islamic Theological and Juristic Terminology: Kitab al-Hudud fi'l-usul by Ibn Furak (d.406/1015)' in BSOAS, LIV, I, London 1991, pp.5-41.
‘The Story of Joseph in the Qur'an and the Old Testament' in Islam and Christian Muslim Relations, I, 2, pp.171-191, Birmingham 1990.
‘Water in the Qur'an', The Islamic Quarterly, XXXIII, 1, London 1989, pp. 34-50.
Other publications
‘Makkah in the Qur'an and Hadith', (in Arabic) Al-Ahram, London, 28 July 1988.
‘Islamic Feasts in Egypt', The Egyptian Bulletin, London, September 1983, pp.17-19.
‘The Effect of the Use of the Gregorian Calendar on the Islamic World' (in Arabic), Ash-Sharq al-Awsat, London, 30 September 1983.
‘Divorce and Re-marriage in the Anglican Church Compared with the Islamic Approach' (in Arabic) Ash-Sharq al-Awsat, London, 20 August 1983.
‘The Debate on Capital Punishment in the British Parliament, Summer 1983: an Islamic Viewpoint' (in Arabic), Ash-Sharq al-Awsat, London, 26 July 1983.
Book reviews in The Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies.
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