Dr Sajjad Rizvi BA, MA, MPhil (Oxon), PhD (Cantab)

Broadly speaking I work on Islamic intellectual history. My particular interests which grew from my PhD at Cambridge on the philosophy of Mulla Sadra Shirazi (d. c. 1635) lie in post-Avicennan philosophical, theological and mystical traditions. My second main area of interest is Qur'anic exegesis and textual hermeneutics.

I am currently completing  two projects: a monograph on Mir Damad (2009 completion), and an introduction to philosophy in the Islamic east and a reader of the works of Mulla Sadra (Edinburgh University Press, completion end of 2009 - this will be my 3rd book on Mulla Sadra!).  My next major project is mapping Islamic philosophical traditions in India 1450-1850 supported initially by a British Academy grant (2006-08) and to be published by OUP.

I am involved in three consultancy projects:

1) For the DCLG, I am on the steering committee of the Contextualising Islam in Britain Project that is running until June 2009 initially,

2) I am an expert member of the European Network of Experts on Radicalisation (ENER) which runs through to 2010.

3) I am currently completing a research project on Shia Religious Institutions and Politics in Iraq for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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.