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Dr Muhammad Mansur Ali 


Position:Jameel Lecturer in Islamic Studies

Telephone:+44 (0)29 208 76297
Extension:76297
Location:John Percival Building Room 5.08

Research Interests

 I have two main research interests, one textual and the other practical. I am interested in Hadith studies both Muslim and Orientalist as well as classical and modern. I am also interested in British Muslims and practical theology. How can Muslims have a meaningful religious experience in a predominant secular society? What psychological impact has modernity and the technocratic society has had on the lives of Muslims in the West? An offshoot of this is to look at religious leadership in the British Muslim community. This includes Muslim chaplaincy and its impact on the wider community as well as the influence of Muftis and imams in enhancing the religious experience of British Muslims. 

Selected Publications

Forthcoming 2013:  Understanding Muslim Chaplaincy, with Sophie Gilliat-Ray and Stephen Pattison, Aldershot: Ashgate

Forthcoming 2013: Translation of Qawa’id fi Ulum al-Hadith by Zafar Ahmad Uthmani, with Aisha Bewley, Abdassamad Clarke and Shams ad Duha, Turath Publishing.

2012  ‘Muslim Chaplains: working at the interface of ‘public’ and ‘private’, in Ahmad, W. and Sardar, Z (eds.), in ‘Muslims in Britain: Making Social and Political Space’ London: Routledge (with Sophie Gilliat-Ray)

Research Projects

Muslim Chaplaincy Project (AHRC/ESRC)

Conference Papers

January 2013 (Abstract accepted). Islamic Soteriology Between Exclusivism, Inclusivism and Pluralism. Islam and conflict transformation conference. University of Manchester.

September 2012: Friday prayer in prison chaplaincy, Religion and Society conference, Cambridge University, with Sophie Gilliat-Ray and Stephen Pattison.

June 2012: Comparison between UK and USA Higher education chaplains Religion and belief in higher education conference, Derby University.

February 2012: Islamic soteriology Lecture for the Cambridge Theological Federation, Cambridge.

February 2012: Theological paradigms for Muslim chaplaincy in the UK context. Faculty of Divinity research seminar, Cambridge University

January 2012: Understanding Muslim Chaplaincy. Cambridge Muslim College research seminar. CMC, Cambridge.

Teaching

History and Development of the Muslim community in Britain (RTT132)

Contemporary Debates (RTT133)