I am Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Fellow at The University of Toronto, mentored by Prof Walid Saleh. I was awarded a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Durham in 2015. I have published research articles in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies<\/em>, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society<\/em>, the Muslim World<\/em> and Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs<\/em>. My first book In Search of Ali ibn Abi Talib\u2019s Codex: History and Traditions of the Earliest Copy of the Qur\u2019an<\/em>, was published in 2018. I am currently writing my second monograph on the Textual integrity of the Qur\u2019an<\/em>. I am specialised in the isnad-cum-matn method<\/em> and am interested in working with Sunni\/Shi\u02bfi sources. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n I am editing a volume on Qur\u2019anic commentary entitled, Understanding Surah al Baqarah: A Modern Interpretation of the Qur\u2019an in the Light of the Qur\u2019an<\/em> (SBC Publication: London, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The work analyses some of the prominent classical and contemporary Sunni and Shi\u02bfi commentators to relate their commentaries to contemporary Muslim communities living in the West. The volume is intended to benefit those Muslim and non-Muslim readers who are interested in a comprehensive understanding of the Quran and Muslim faith. The commentary also into some of the most complicated issues related to Muslim, Christian and Jewish relations, Muslims in the West, Islam and modernity, Islam and human rights, gender issues, Islamic eschatology, ethics, and law. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe rational-analytical tafs\u012br<\/em> in modern Iran: The influence of U\u1e63\u016bl\u012b School of Jurisprudence on the interpretation of the Qur\u2019an,\u201d in Interpretation of the Qur\u2019\u0101n in Modern Iran<\/em>, ed. Alessandro Cancian, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019 pp.19-39.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Search of \u02bfAl\u012b ibn Ab\u012b \u1e6c\u0101lib\u2019s Codex: History and Traditions on the Earliest Copy of the Qur\u02be\u0101n, <\/em>(Berlin & London: Gerlach Press, 2018), Second Edition to be published in 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cSuppression of \u02bfAl\u012b ibn Ab\u012b \u1e6c\u0101lib\u2019s codex: Study of the traditions on the earliest copy of the Qur\u2019\u0101n,\u201d Journal of Near Eastern Studies<\/em> (2016), 75\/2, pp. 267-289. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Collection of the Qur\u02be\u0101n in the Early Sh\u012b\u02bfite Discourse,\u201d Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society<\/em> (2016), 26\/3, pp. 375-406.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Seyfeddin Kara and Arzu Merali, \u201cIs \u201cvicarious Vicarious Retribution Model\u201d Sufficient to Analyse Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes?\u201d Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs<\/em> (2020), 40\/4, pp. 1-24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBetween Salman Rushdie and Ayatollah Khomeini: Kalim Siddiqui and political Islam in Britain in the last quarter of the 20th century,\u201d The Muslim World<\/em> (2017), 107\/3, pp. 375-400.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cUse of transmission patterns in contemporary Sh\u012b\u2019ite \u1e25ad\u012bth <\/em>studies,\u201d Journal of Shia Islamic Studies<\/em> (2016), 9\/2, pp. 144-164. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cContemporary Shi\u2019i approach to the textual history of the Qur\u2019\u0101n,\u201d in New Trends in Qur\u2019anic Studies,<\/em> ed. Mun\u2019im Sirry, Atlanta, Georgia: Lockwood Press, 2019, pp. 109-124.<\/p>\n\n\n\nResearch related to commentary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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