Dr Nuha al-Sha‘ar

Nuha al-Sha‘ar obtained a PhD from the University of Cambridge.  She is an associate professor in the Qur’anic Studies Unit at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London. She also teaches Islamic intellectual history, Islamic philosophy, and Arabic literature at the American University of Sharjah, and the University of Lisbon in Portugal. She focuses her research on the study of ethics in Islamic contexts, on the reception of the Qur’an in classical Islamic Literary traditions, and on ethics in the context of Qur’anic commentaries.

Her publications include Ethics in Islam: Friendship in the Political Thought of al-Tawḥīdī and His Contemporaries (Routledge, 2015); she also co-authored On God and the World: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistles 49-51 (Oxford University Press, 2019). She has also edited a number of books, including: Muslim Sicily: Encounters and Legacy (Edinburgh, 2024); The Qur’an and Adab: The Shaping of Literary Traditions in Classical Islam (Oxford University Press, 2017), among others. She is currently preparing an Anthology on Qur’an, Ethics, and Society. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of the book series Studies in Islamic Ethics, Brill, and of Advances in the Study of Islam, Edinburgh University Press.