Faissal Hameed

Lecturer in Islam and Politics

Programme director Graduate Certificate Islam: Politics and Society

Programme director Certificate of Higher Education in Islamic Studies

Tel: +44 (0) 20 3073 8213

e-mail: f.hameed@bbk.ac.uk

Profile

Faissal Hameed is Lecturer in Islam and Politics. He has a BA (Hons) in the History and Politics of the Near and Middle East and an MA in African/Asian History from the School of Oriental and African Studies and a PhD in the Politics of Islamic Movements from the University of Birmingham. His specialisation is in the fields of the modern history of the Middle East and Islamic societies and in contemporary Islam and its relations to politics in the Muslim world. He has lectured extensively within the field of Islam and politics and over a broad range of related subject areas as well as historical ‘time-periods’. Along with teaching, he has supervised students (undergraduates and postgraduates) for research-based dissertations. He is interviewed by the media on Muslim affairs and has offered seminars at various national fora and has taught at the Muslim College, London and the University of Birmingham.

Research interests

South Asian history with special reference to the politics of Islamic identity in Pakistan; Jamaat-i Islami and Pakistan; Political Islam in South Asia; debates in contemporary Islam and their relations to politics; Modern Middle Eastern and South Asian political history.

Publications and conference papers

‘The Intellectual History of al-Andalus’, The Utrujj Foundation, Muslim World League, London, 11-16 July 2005.

‘The History of Sunna Methodology in South Asia’, Association of Muslim Social Scientists, The Muslim College, London, 7 February 2006.

‘The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire’, The Utrujj Foundation, Birkbeck College, London, 2 December 2006.

‘The Rise and Fall of Civilisation: Marking the 600th Anniversary of Ibn Khaldun’, The Utrujj Foundation, Muslim World League, London, 7 July 2007.

‘The Umayyad Dynasty: The Formative Period of Islamic History and Civilisation’, The Utrujj Foundation, Muslim World League, London, 26 July 2008.

‘South Asian Islamist movements and their impact on British Muslim communities: a study of the Jamaat-i Islami in Britain’, Researching Islam in the UK symposium, Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society, Birkbeck College, 5 May 2009.

Invited participant, BRISMES workshop, ‘Islamists and the Egyptian State: Between accommodation and resistance’, Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society, Birkbeck College, 24 June 2009.

‘The electoral failure of Islamic revivalism: The ideology and practice of the Jamaat-i Islami of Pakistan, 1947-1977’, South Asia: The Journal of South Asian Studies, (forthcoming).

External roles and memberships

Invited participant, HEFCE Islamic Studies conference, Queen Elizabeth II conference centre, London, 17 April 2008.

External adviser, Validation for joint Hons Islamic studies programme, University of Central

Lancashire, Preston, 19 June 2009.

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, July 2009.

Invited participant, Islam and Contemporary Life, Press TV, televised 16 July 2009.

Teaching

Core course: Muslim Politics and Society in Modern History (p/g)

State and Society in Islamic History: Syllabus I (p/g)

State and Society in Islamic History: Syllabus II (p/g)

Islamic History and Civilisation (u/g)