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 was the principal investigator of the project “Creating an alternative umma: clerical authority and religio-political mobilisation in transnational Shii Islam.”
