Professor of Islam in South Asia - University of Oxford.
- Adresse mail
- justin.jones@theology.ox.ac.uk
- Université et pays de rattachement
- University of Oxford - United Kingdom
- Fonction actuelle
- Associate Professor in the Study of Religion, Faculty of Theology and Religion
- Titres académiques
- Theology and Religion (MA, Cambridge, 2002)
- Historical Studies (MPhil, Cambridge, 2003)
- South Asian Studies (PhD, Cambridge, 2007)
- Domaines d’enseignement
- Modern Islam
- History of South Asia (India, Pakistan etc)
- Methods and themes in the modern study of religion
- Comparative religion
- Imperialism, postcolonialism and world history
- Orientalism, cultural exchange and East-West/ interreligious relations
- Domaine de recherche
- Islam in South Asia
- Currents of Islamic renewal and reform in the modern world, especially in Muslim minority contexts (e.g. India, Europe)
- Shi‘i Islam
- Islamic law
- Thématique de recherche
- Modern inter/intra-religious relations (especially Muslim-Christian and Shi’i-Sunni)
- Legal practices in contemporary Islam
- Leadership and community in Muslim minority societies
- Publications / contributions
- Justin Jones and Ali Usman Qasmi eds., The Shi‘a of South Asia: religion, history and politics (Cambridge University Press: Delhi, 2015).
- ‘‘Islam at home: religion, piety and private space in Muslim India and Victorian Britain, c.1850-1905’, in J. Doran and C. Methuen eds., Religion and the household: studies in church history (Boydell and Brewer: Woodbridge, 2014), pp.378-404.
- Shi‘ism, humanity and revolution in twentieth century India: selfhood and politics in the Husainology of ‘Ali Naqi Naqvi’, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (24, 3, 2014), pp.415-434.
- Justin Jones, Shi‘a Islam in colonial India: religion, community and sectarianism (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2012), 304pp.
- “‘Signs of churning”: Muslim Personal Law and public contestation in twenty-first century India’, Modern Asian Studies (44, 1, 2010), pp.175-200.