Biography
Dr F. Redhwan Karim is a Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education, as well as the Course Leader for the B.A Islamic Studies program. He completed his PhD under Professor M.A.S Abdel Haleem at SOAS, University of London. His thesis examined the concept of gender relations in the Qur’an. Prior to this, he obtained an M.A in Islamic Studies and a B.A in Arabic and Islamic Studies. He has also studied at various capacities in Egypt, Jordan, and Oman. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Education
B.A Arabic and Islamic Studies
M.A Islamic Studies
PhD Islamic Studies
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Research interests
Qur'ānic Studies
Islam and Gender
Islamic intellectual history
Islamic history and historiography
Contemporary Islamic Studies
Publications
Books
Karim, F. Redhwan (ed.) (2024). History of the Qur’an: Approaches and Explorations. Leicestershire: Kube Academic.
Journal Articles
Karim, F. Redhwan (Forthcoming) ‘Wilayah, Enjoining the Good and Forbidding the Evil: Q. 9:71 and the Qur’anic Ethic of Gender Reciprocity over Hierarchy’. Journal of Islamic Ethics.
Karim, F. Redhwan (2024). ‘Translating the Past: Openness and Diversity in Islamic Intellectual History’. The Muslim World Review 45, no. 1. 6-18.
Karim, F. Redhwan (2023) ‘Extracting the Historical Authenticity of Numbers in the Sira: The Case of Khadijah’s Marriage to the Prophet Muhammad’. ReOrient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies 8, no.1. 101-123.
Karim, F. Redhwan. (2021) ‘Rethinking Women’s Dress Prescriptions in the Qur’ān: An Intratextual Reading of Zīna’. Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies 6, no. 2. 82-112.
Book Chapters
Karim, F. Redhwan. (Forthcoming) ‘Contemporary Reception of 4:34 and Wife-Beating: Between the Madrasa and the Academy’ in Madrassas in the Modern World: Developments, Challenges and Oppurtunities, edited by Haroon Bashir and Shahid Mathee. Johannesburg: University of Johannesburg Press.
Karim, F. Redhwan. (2024) ‘Towards a History of the Qur’an’ in History of the Qur’an: Approaches and Explorations, edited by F. Redhwan Karim. Leicestershire: Kube Academic. 1-26.
Karim, F. Redhwan and Elsaedawy, Y. (2023) ‘Stylistic Features of Fourth/Tenth-century Arabic Colophons, with Particular Attention to Scribal Biographical Details’ in Literary Snippets, Colophons Across Time and Space, edited by Sabine Schmidtke and George Kiraz. New Jersey: Gorgias Press. 345-368.
Book Reviews
Karim, F. Redhwan. (2023) Wafi A Momin, Texts, Scribes and Transmission Manuscript Cultures of the Ismaili Communities and Beyond (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) in The Muslim World Book Review 43, no. 3. 40-42.
Karim, F. Redhwan. (2023) Mun’im Sirry, The Qur’an with Cross-References (Boston: De Gruyter 2022) in The Muslim World Book Review 43, no. 3. 25-27.
Karim, F. Redhwan. (2022) Celine Ibrahim, Women and Gender in the Qur’an (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020) in ReOrient: Journal of Critical Muslim Studies 7, no.1. 106-109.
Conferences & Public Lectures
(2024) ‘Respondent ‘On Gender and Islamic Liberation Theology’. University of Edinburgh/MIHE, U.K, Workshop on Islamic Liberation Theology.
(2023) ‘Theorizing 33:59: Reflections on Slavery and Dress in Islamic Thought’. University of Leicester, U.K, Islam and the Study of Slavery Exploring Methodological Problems and Solutions.
(2023) ‘Extracting the Historical Authenticity of Numbers in the Sira: The Case of Khadijah’s Marriage to the Prophet Muhammad’. University of Leeds, U.K, Reorienting the Muslim Question Conference.
(2023) ‘Q.9:71, Wilayah, Enjoining the Good and Forbidding the Evil: The Qur’anic Ethic of Gender Reciprocity over Hierarchy’. Hamid bin Khalīfa University, Qatar. CILE.
(2022) ‘Stylistic Features of Fourth/Tenth-century Arabic Colophons, with Particular Attention to Scribal Biographical Details’. Markfield Institute of Higher Education, U.K, Internal Research Conference.
(2020) ‘The language of ‘Eve’, Ontological Considerations in the Interpretation of Q.4:1’. Swansea University, U.K, Arabic Postgraduate Research Conference: Negotiating Language and Ideology: Arabic Texts and Translations.
(2019) ‘Zina in the Qur’an: A study of Qur’anic Intratextuality’. University of Nottingham, U.K, British Association of Islamic Studies.
(2018) ‘Gender Interaction in the Qur’an: Synergy between the Ayatal-Aḥkam and Qiṣaṣ.’ University of Exeter, U.K, British Association of Islamic Studies.
(2017) ‘Gender Relations in the Qur’an’. University of Sarajevo, Bosnia, Muslims in Europe Challenges of Pluralism.
Publication Material
Historical Authenticity of Numbers in the Sira
