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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences

Department of Arabic and Translation Studies

Teaching areas

Arabic Heritage, Arab & Islamic Civilization, Qur'anic Studies,Hadith

Research areas

Qur'an, Hadith, Islamic Law & Classical Arabic Literature

Education

PhD, Arab And Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, United Kingdom, 2013

Professional experience

Lecturer In Arabic & Islamic Studies, University of Wales Trinity St David, Wales, United Kingdom, 2010 - 2015

Lecturer In Arabic & Islamic Studies, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, 2004 - 2010

Lecturer In Islamic Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, United Kingdom, 2004 - 2004

Memberships

International Hadith Studies Network, IHSAN, International, 1 March 2019

British Association for Islamic Studies, BRAIS, International, 1 September 2017

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2566

Dr. Usman Ghani

Associate Professor

PhD, University of Exeter, United Kingdom

In addition to working at AUS, Usman Ghani has worked at the University of Wales Trinity St. David, the University of Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan University. Dr. Ghani's field of competence and research focus is classical Islamic literature in Arabic, Islamic jurisprudence and theology. More specifically, his field of specialism is Hadith and Sunna both in their historical context and contemporary expression.

Publications

Usman Ghani. The Depiction of Al-Bukhārī’s travels in classical Islamic literature, Journal Of Quran And Hadith Studies, 1 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2023

Usman Ghani. Tradition and its significance within Islam and the Abrahamic Faiths, Journal Of Hadith Studies, 1 June 2022

Usman Ghani. Assessing Juynboll's theory: The case of Abu Hurayra in the Muwatta of Malik, Journal Of Hadith, June 2020

Usman Ghani. Justifying the role of Prophetic Narration in Ḥanafī Jurisprudence: The Case of al-Zayla'ī's Naṣb al-Rāya as a Ḥadīth Companion to al-Marghīnānī's al-Hidāya, Miscellanies Of The Dominican Institute Of Oriental Studies (mideo,34, 2019), 1 May 2019

Usman Ghani. Ibn Qutayba's response to the Mu'tazilites, Journal Of The Faculty Of Theology, Marmara University, Turkey, 1 June 2016

Usman Ghani, Adis Duderija And Adis Duderija. The concept of Sunnah in Mu'tazilite Thought, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2015

Usman Ghani. The Study of Quranic Teaching and Learning: A Review in Malaysia and United Kingdom,, Middle-east Journal Of Scientific Research,2013, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2013

Usman Ghani. Reconfiguring Islamic Tradition: Reform, Rationality and Modernity, Samira Haj,Stanford University Press California, 2009, British Journal Of Middle Eastern Studies, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2012

Usman Ghani. The Islamic School of Law: Evolution, Devolution and Progress Peri Bearman, Rudolph Peters and Frank E. Vogel (eds) Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2005, British Journal Of Middle Eastern Studies, 1 August 2010

Conference Presentations

Hadith usage in Hanafi fiqh: a case study of al-Marghinani's al-Hidaya, British Association For Islamic Studies, 15 April 2019

Travel, Narrative and Hagiography: The case of al-Bukhari in the genre of rihla fi talab al-Hadith, “storytelling, Travel Writing, And Seafaring From Cross-cultural Perspectives,”, 31 October 2018

Justifying the role of Prophetic Narration in Hanafi Jurisprudence: The case of al-Zaylai's Nasb al-Raya as a Hadith companion to al-Marghinani's al-Hidaya, The Emergence Of Hadith As The Authority Of Knowledge, 11 January 2018

Religious Architecture and Literature in Colonial India: The Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama in Lucknow, International Conference On Literature, Architecture And Urban Space, 3 March 2017

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, Seed Grant, AUS

Awards and Honors

CAS Teaching in excellence award 2019-20 (Nominated), AUS, March 2020