Sajjad Rizvi
Sajjad Rizvi is Professor of Islamic intellectual history at the University of Exeter. His publications include The Spirit and the Letter: Approaches to the Esoteric Interpretation of the Qurʾan (2016, ed. with Annabel Keeler), Mulla Sadra and Metaphysics (2009), An Anthology of Qurʾanic Commentaries Volume I: On the Nature of the Divine (2008, ed. with Feras Hamza and Farhana Mayer), and Mulla Sadra Shirazi: His Life, Works and Sources for Safavid Philosophy (2007). Rizvi received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Oxford and his Ph.D. from Cambridge. He is currently interested in three projects: a monograph on Plato and Platonisms in Islam, a theological analysis of Imamology in Shiʿi thought, and the reception of some European philosophies in the postcolonial Muslim context. With a former student and colleague Ahab Bdaiwi, he is editing the Oxford Handbook of Shii Islam. He has advised various government departments and private sector concerns on Iraq, Iran, Shii Islam in the Gulf, and Islam in Britain and Europe.
