Dr Ian Draper BA (Bristol UWE), PGCE, MA PhD (Birmingham)

 

Lecturer in Islam and Contemporary Religion

Department of Theology and Religion

Contact details

Telephone +44 (0)121 41 43613

Email i.draper@bham.ac.uk

University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

About

I am a Lecturer in Islam and Contemporary Religion in the Department of Theology and Religion. My primary research and teaching interests are in Contemporary Sufism, Western esotericisms, Islam in Britain and CyberReligion (especially in relation to Sufism and Islam).

Qualifications

BA (Hons) in Humanities (Bristol UWE)

MA in Islamic Studies (Bham)

PGCE Secondary RE (Bham)

PhD in Islamic Studies (Bham)

Biography

  • Youth & community worker and teacher in Birmingham
  • Research Assistant on British Muslims Monthly Survery media project
  • Principal Researcher: ESRC funded research project on Transnational Sufism
  • Research Fellow and Teaching Fellow: projects relating to Islam in Britain and teaching on Islam and Religious Studies
  • Lecturer in Islam and Contemporary Religion.

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • Sufism: Belief and Practice (Year 2)
  • New Age and Alternative Spiritualities (Year 2)
  • Contemporary Sufi Movements (Year 3)
  • CyberReligion (Year 3)
  • Islam in Britain (Year 3)
  • Contributions to: Introduction to Study of Religion and Introduction to Islam (Year 1)

 

Postgraduate

  • Contemporary Sufism
  • Islam in Britain
  • Islam in Cyberspace

Postgraduate supervision

  • Contemporary Sufism
  • Western Esotericisms
  • Islam in Britain
  • CyberReligion

Research

I am currently researching in the following areas:

  • Sufism in Cyberspace (for forthboing book)
  • Theological and pedagogical survey of madrasa curriculums in Birmingham
  • The theology and practice of the exorcism of jinn in Muslim communities in Britain

Other activities

  • Undergraduate Exams Officer for Theology & Religion
  • Programme Leader for MRes in Religion and Culture
  • Member of Birmingham Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (UoB)
  • Member of Religious Studies Research Cluster (UoB)
  • Member of Advisory Board of Honouring Tradition (Muslim community education)

Publications

Forthcoming: Sufism: A Guide for the Perplexed, London: Continuum (as Mustafa Draper)

Transnational Sufism: the Haqqaniyya' (with J.S. Nielsen & G Yemelianova) in Sufism in the West (eds. J. Malik & John Hinnells), (London: Routledge, 2006) (as Mustafa Draper)

'From Celts to Kaaba: Sufism in Glastonbury' in Living Sufism in Europe and North America (ed. D. Westerlund), (London: Curzon RKP, 2004

Islamiyat: A Core Text for O'Level (with D. Thomas), (Karachi: OUP, 2004) (as Mustafa Draper)

'Ethics and ethnographic research in the context of Sufi tariqas' in Ethnology of Sufi Orders: Theory and Practice (eds. A Zhelyazkova & J.S. Nielsen), (Sofia: IMIR & CSICMR, 2001) (as Mustafa Draper)

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