Ali Reza was appointed Assistant Professor in Islamic Ethics in 2024, after
having initially joined the Department of Theology and Religion as
Teaching Fellow in Islamic Ethics and Theology in 2021. He has held
previous academic posts at the Al-Mahdi Institute, the University of
Nottingham, the University of Oxford, and the Markfield Institute for
Education. At the al-Mahdi Institute he served as a member of the
executive team from 2012-2017 and as co-director for the Centre for
Intra-Muslim Studies 2019-2021.
It was at the Al-Mahdi Institute that he began my Islamic Studies
training, before moving to Durham’s Centre for Middle Eastern and
Islamic Studies for a master’s and PhD funded by a scholarship from the
Economic and Social Research Council as part of the Centre for the
Advanced Study of the Arab World (CASAW). His PhD thesis was published as
Moral Rationalism and Sharia (Routledge, 2015). The intimate,
yet often contested, relationship between sharia and ethics continue to
be a central theme within his research.
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