Dr George Warner
Research Fellow
- The Words of the Imams: al-Shaykh al-Ṣadūq and the Development of Twelver Shīʿī Hadith Literature (London: I. B. Tauris, 2021).
- ‘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 Khan 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.
