Dr George Warner
Research Fellow
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Departments and units
Shi'i Studies Unit -
Email
gwarner@iis.ac.uk
- The Words of the Imams: al-Shaykh al-Ṣadūq and the Development of Twelver Shīʿī Hadith Literature (London: I. B. Tauris, 2021).
- ‘What Is Shiʿi Writing? Nahj al-balāgha, Identity and Adab Literature in the Būyid Period’, Journal of Religious Minorities Under Muslim Rule 2/1, 2024.
- ‘Shahrbānū’s Recompense: Muslim and Non-Muslim Antagonists and the Hero Imam in Rabīʿ’s ʿAlī nāma,’ Entangled Religions 14/2, 2023.
- “Mubāhala”, in Encyclopaedia of Islam Three (Leiden: Brill, 2023).
- ‘One Thousand ḥijaj: Ritualization and the Margins of the Law in Early Twelver Shi’i ziyāra Literature’ Journal of the American Oriental Society 141/2 (2022).
- ‘Explaining Prayer: Ḥadīth and Esotericism in al-Shaykh al-Ṣadūq’s ʿIlal al-sharāʾiʿ,’ in Edmund Hayes & Rodrigo Adem (eds.), Reason, Esotericism and the Construction of Authority in Shīʿī Islam (Leiden: Brill, 2021).
- ‘Buddha or Yūdhāsaf? Images of the Hidden Imām in al-Ṣadūq’s Kamāl al-dīn,’ Mizan: Journal for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations 2/1 (2017)
- ‘A Textual-Critical Analysis of the Sources of the Duʿāʾ Commencing “Yā man arjūhu li-kulli khayr”’ by Muḥammad Ghafūrī Nezhād, Al-Qalam Journal Of Advanced Islamic Research 2, 2024.
- ‘Animal Diseases’ by Peyman Esmaeili, Y’ALLA: A Texan Journal of Middle Eastern Literature 1/1 (2021) Co-authored with Dr Neda Mohtashami, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
- Conference Paper: Fatima’s Most Treasured Possession: ‘Wisdom Hadith’ and Imāmī Shīʿī Taxonomies of Knowledge, delivered at Compiling a Tradition: The History and Development of the Early Imāmī Hadith Corpora, Al-Mahdi Institute, February 2024.
- Conference Paper: ‘Picture His Torment Before Your Eyes’: Narrative Imagination in Shīʿī Commemorative Ritual, delivered at Arabic Pasts, SOAS and Aga KhanA title granted by the Shah of Persia to the then Ismaili Imam in 1818 and inherited by each of his successors to the Imamate. University, October 2023.
- Conference Paper: Between Ḥadīth and Devotion: Miṣbāḥ al-mutahajjid and the Textual Character of Twelver liturgy, delivered at Historicizing the Shiʿi Hadith Corpus, Leiden University, September 2022.
- Public Lecture: The Tragedy of al-Maʾmūn: Encounters with the Imām in al-Ṣadūq’s ʿUyūn Akhbār al-Riḍā, delivered at Al-Mahdi Institute Research Seminar, Birmingham, May 2022.
