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PhD Islamic literature of West Africa, SOAS
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Dr R. Masterton |
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Senior Lecturer |
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Interests |
- Mysticism
- Islamic history
- Comparative literature
- Philosophy
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Email |
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Tel |
0208 451 9993 |
Profile
Dr Masterton holds a BA in Japanese, an MA in Comparative East Asian and African Literature, and PhD in francophone and Islamic mystical literature of West Africa from the School of Oriental and African Studies London. She has taught Islamic mysticism at Birkbeck College. She presented and co-produced an 88-part series on religion and culture for Press TV and published a collection of short stories entitled Passing Through the Dream... To the Other Side, blending esoteric Islam and the Western cultural experience.
Teaching
Islamic mysticism (BA & MA)
Publications & Supervision
Some of her recent work includes:
- ‘A Critical Comparison of the Manifestation of Cosmic Hierarchies in the Development of Christian and Islamic Mystical Theology’, in Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies
- Review of Early Islam between Myth and History: Al-Hasan al-Basri (d. 110H/728 CE) and the Formation of His Legacy in Classical Islamic Scholarship, by Suleiman Ali Mourad, in Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies
- Review of Sufism, the Formative Period, by Ahmet T. Karmanustafa, in Journal of Qur’anic Studies.
- Review of The Other Shiites, Monsutti, Naef and Sabahi (eds), in Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies.
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- Review: Fighting the Greater Jihad, by Cheikh Anta Babou 2008, in Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies.
- ‘Islamic Mystical Readings of Cheikh Hamidou’ Kane, in Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies.
- Translation of The Moral World of the Qur’an, by M. A. Draz. French to English. London: IB Tauris, 2008.
- Review of Muslim-Christian Encounters in Africa, ed. Benjamin Soares 2007, Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies.
- ‘Islamic Mystical Resonances in Fulbe Literature 2007’, in Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies.
- Review of Swedenborg and Esoteric Islam: two essays by Henry Corbin 2007, in Journal of Qur’anic Studies..
Some of his recent Supervision includes:
- BA dissertation on ‘Abd al-Qadir Jilani 2008.
- MA dissertation on the spirituality of Ali ibn Abi Talib 2008.
- MA dissertation on early Islamic history 2007.
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