Oliver Scharbrodt
Researcher
Oliver Scharbrodt is Professor of Islamic Studies. He has published on the intellectual history of modern Islam, Sufism, Twelver Shiism and Muslim minorities in Europe in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Die Welt des Islams, the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Contemporary Islam and the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs. He is the author of Islam and the Baha’i Faith: A Comparative Study of Muhammad ‘Abduh and ‘Abdul-Baha ‘Abbas (London: Routledge, 2008) and co-authored Muslims in Ireland: Past and Present (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015). Together with Yafa Shanneik he co-edited the volume Shi’a Minorities in the Contemporary World: Migration, Transnationalism and Multilocality (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020). He was editor-in-chief of the Yearbook of Muslims in Europe (Leiden: Brill) from 2015 until 2020. His latest book Muhammad ‘Abduh: Modern Islam and the Culture of Ambiguity (London: IB Tauris, 2022) illustrates ‘Abduh’s complex engagement with Islam’s diverse intellectual traditions in his reformist discourse. From 2018 until 2023, he served the principal investigator of the project “Creating an alternative umma: clerical authority and religio-political mobilisation in transnational Shii Islam” which was funded by a Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (grant agreement no. 724557).
Publications
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Creating Shia Spaces in British Society : The Role of Transnational Twelver Shia Networks in North-West London
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2024) British Muslims and Their Discourses , p.101-120
Book chapterMahmud Taliqani
Oliver Scharbrodt, Mohammad Mesbahi
(2023) Handbook of Qur'anic Hermeneutics : Vol. 4: Qur'anic Hermeneutics in the 19th and 20th Century, 4 p.291-308
Book chapterMuhammad 'Abduh
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2023) Handbook of Qur'anic Hermeneutics : Vol.4: Qur'anic Hermeneutics in the 19th and 20th Century, 4 p.41-58
Book chapterCMES Regional Outlook: MENA Responses to the Qur’an Burnings in Sweden
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2023) CMES Regional Outlook Series
Web publicationContesting ritual practices in Twelver Shiism : modernism, sectarianism and the politics of self-flagellation (taṭbīr)
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2023) British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 50 p.1067-1090
Journal articleDivine Sovereignty, Morality and the State : Maududi and His Influence
Humeira Iqtidar, Oliver Scharbrodt
(2022) Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 32 p.277-293
Journal articleDivine Sovereignty and Clerical Authority in Early Shi‘i Islamism : Bāqir al-Ṣadr (1935–80) and Taqī al-Mudarrisī (b. 1945) on the Islamic State
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2022) Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 32 p.311-332
Journal articlePreface
Stephanie Müssig, Egdūnas Račius, Samim Akgönül, Ahmet Alibašić, Jørgen S. Nielsen, et al.
(2021) Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, 13
PrefaceExperiences of Muslims in Western Europe
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2021) Handbook of Contemporary Islam and Muslim Lives, 1 p.147-170
Book chapterYearbook of Muslims in Europe : Volume 13
(2021) Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, 13
BookAnti-Sufism in Early Qajar Iran : Āqā Muḥammad ‘Alī Bihbahānī (1732–1801) and His Risāla-yi khayrātiyya
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2020) Sufis and Their Opponents in the Persianate World , p.327-363
Book chapterCreating a Diasporic Public Sphere in Britain : Twelver Shia Networks in London
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2020) Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 31 p.23-40
Journal articleIntegrating Syrian refugee children in Turkey : The role of Turkish language skills (A case study in Gaziantep)
Iman Sarmini, Emel Topçu, Oliver Scharbrodt
(2020) International Journal of Educational Research Open, 1
Journal articleYearbook of Muslims in Europe : Volume 12
(2020) Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, 12
BookKhomeini and Muhammad al-Shīrāzī : Revisiting the Origins of the “Guardianship of the Jurisconsult” (wilāyat al-faqīh)
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2020) Welt des Islams, 61 p.9-38
Journal articleEditorial
Oliver Scharbrodt, Reza Gholami, Sufyan Abid Dogra
(2019) Contemporary Islam, 13 p.233-242
Journal article (comment)Yearbook of Muslims in Europe : Volume 11
(2019) Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, 11
BookA minority within a minority? : the complexity and multilocality of transnational Twelver Shia networks in Britain
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2019) Contemporary Islam, 13 p.287-305
Journal article‘Spatial methodology’ in religion and belief research : the example of a study of Twelver Shii Muslim networks in Britain
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2018) Re-imagining religion and belief : 21st century policy and practice , p.55-74
Book chapterYearbook of Muslims in Europe : Volume 10
(2018) Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, 10
BookModern approaches to the Qurān
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2017) Reading the Sacred Scriptures : From Oral Tradition to Written Documents and their Reception , p.120-136
Book chapterYearbook of Muslims in Europe : Volume 9
(2017) Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, 9
Book'Abbās Afandī 'Abd al-Bahā' : Treatise on civilisation (Iran, 1875)
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2017) Numen Book Series, 154 p.443-460
Book chapterBrian Bocking : Making the Study of Religions
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2016) Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions, 3 p.16-26
Journal articleYearbook of Muslims in Europe : Volume 8
(2016) Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, 8
BookMuslim immigration to Ireland after World War II
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2015) Muslims in Ireland : Past and Present , p.49-72
Book chapterMosque communities and Muslim organisations in Dublin and other cities
Adil Hussain Khan, Oliver Scharbrodt, Tuula Sakaranaho
(2015) Muslims in Ireland : Past and Present , p.113-136
Book chapterMuslims in Ireland : Past and present
Oliver Scharbrodt, Tuula Sakaranaho, Adil Hussain Khan, Yafa Shanneik, Vivian Ibrahim
(2015)
BookConclusion : Being Irish, being Muslim
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2015) Muslims in Ireland : Past and Present , p.216-229
Book chapterYearbook of Muslims in Europe : Volume 7
(2015) Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, 7
Book"From Hafiz" : Irish Orientalism, Persian Poetry, and W. B. Yeats
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2015) Erin and Iran : Cultural Encounters between the Irish and the Iranians , p.57-78
Book chapterFrom Irish Exceptionalism to European Normality? : The New Islamic Presence in the Republic of Ireland
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2014) Etudes Irlandaises, 39 p.147-160
Journal articleIreland
Oliver Scharbrodt, Victoria Montgomery
(2014) Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, 6 p.317-333
Book chapterMuslim immigration to the Republic of Ireland : Trajectories and dynamics since World War II
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2012) Eire-Ireland, 47 p.221-243
Journal articleIslam and muslims in the Republic of Ireland : An introduction to the special issue
Oliver Scharbrodt, Tuula Sakaranaho
(2011) Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 31 p.469-485
Journal articleShaping the Public of Image of Islam : The Shiis of Ireland as “moderate” Muslims
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2011) Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 31 p.518-533
Journal articleIslam in Ireland : Organising a Migrant Religion
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2011) Ireland’s New Religious Movements , p.318-336
Book chapterThe qutb as special representative of the Hidden Imam : the conflation of Shii and Sufi Vilayat in the Ni‘matullahi Order
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2010) Beiruter Texte und Studien, 115 p.33-49
Book chapterIslam and the Baha'i Faith : A comparative study of Muhammad Abduh and Abdul-Baha Abbas
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2008) Culture and civilisation in the Middle East, 13
BookThe Salafiyya and Sufism : Muhammad 'Abduh and his Risālat al-Wāridāt (Treatise on Mystical Inspirations)
Oliver Scharbrodt
(2007) Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 70 p.89-115
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