Congratulations to Abdul Rahman Mustafa on becoming a Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Divinity at Edinburgh University

Abdul Rahman Mustafa has officially accepted the position of Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Divinity at Edinburgh University.

Abdul Rahman is a former Georgetown Ph.D. student. His research interests cover Islamic legal theory, comparative law, intellectual history, theology as well as political theory.

He has published a monograph, On Taqlīd: Ibn al Qayyim’s Critique of Authority in Islamic Law, Oxford University Press, New York, 2013, and several articles, including “From the Hudood Ordinances to the Protection of Women Act: Islamic Critiques of the Hudood Laws of Pakistan,” with Moeen H. Cheema, UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law (2008-09) as well as entries in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Law, Oxford University Press, New York (“Proof, Standards of,” “Pakistan,” and “South Asia: An Introduction”).