Ongoing & Past
Research

There are a range of topics and questions that can be explored in the context of our 2025 strategic theme “Women at the Intersection of Theology, Ethics, and Society”, organized under the rubric of our three research areas, each of which comprises .

Currently Active

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Research Fellows

Islamic Perspectives of Women’s Agency:

From Text to Context

Research team members

Focusing on women’s agency in Islamic thought, this project brings the Qur’anic text and tafsīr (Qur’anic exegesis) into conversation with contemporary political theory. It examines how gender roles are framed in relation to community building and explores interpretations of key gender-related verses to identify areas of agreement and tension.

Reimagining Islamic Duty of Care for Displaced Women

Research team members

At the intersection of Qur’anic interpretation, gender, and political theory, this research examines how women’s agency is understood within Islamic thought. Particular attention is given to the relationship between gender roles and community formation, as well as to tafsīr (Qur’anic exegesis) of key verses concerning women.

Focusing on women’s agency in Islamic:

Into conversation with contemporary political theory

Research team members

This project examines the relationship between gender, agency, and community in the Qur’anic text and its interpretive traditions. Through a study of tafsīr (Qur’anic exegesis) on key verses concerning women and gender roles, it explores how different scholars have understood women’s participation, responsibility, and authority within the Muslim community.

Research Groups

Gender, Care, and Agency in Islamic Thought:

Rethinking Women’s Roles in Times of Displacement

This project examines the relationship between gender, agency, and community in the Qur’anic text and its interpretive traditions. Through a study of tafsīr (Qur’anic exegesis) on key verses concerning women and gender roles, it explores how different scholars have understood women’s participation, responsibility, and authority within the Muslim community.
Principal Investigator
  • Dr. Shuruq Naguib Lecturer in Islamic Studies Lancaster University
co-Principal Investigator
  • Dr. Ravza Altuntas Cakir Assistant Professor Sociology 
and Anthropology of the Middle East, Marmara University
Research team members
  • Fatima Barkatulla SOAS London
  • Dr. Mahmoud al-Shal Adjunct Lecturer of Usul al-Fiqh, Al-Azhar University
  • Dr. Alyaa Ebbiary Lecturer in Religion, Politics and Society, Lancaster University
  • Dr. Feyza Burak Adli Post-Doctoral Fellow Department of Anthropology Northwestern University

Reimagining Islamic Duty of Care for Displaced Women

This project examines the relationship between gender, agency, and community in the Qur’anic text and its interpretive traditions. Through a study of tafsīr (Qur’anic exegesis) on key verses concerning women and gender roles, it explores how different scholars have understood women’s participation, responsibility, and authority within the Muslim community.
Principal Investigator
  • Dr. Shuruq Naguib Lecturer in Islamic Studies Lancaster University
  • Dr. Feyza Burak Adli Post-Doctoral Fellow Department of Anthropology Northwestern University
co-Principal Investigator
  • Dr. Ravza Altuntas Cakir Assistant Professor Sociology 
and Anthropology of the Middle East, Marmara University
Research team members
  • Dr. Alyaa Ebbiary Lecturer in Religion, Politics and Society, Lancaster University
  • Fatima Barkatulla Adjunct Lecturer of Usul al-Fiqh, Al-Azhar University
  • Fatima Barkatulla SOAS London

Telling Through Time:

Oral Histories of Muslim Women as Ethical and Legal Knowledge

This project examines the relationship between gender, agency, and community in the Qur’anic text and its interpretive traditions. Through a study of tafsīr (Qur’anic exegesis) on key verses concerning women and gender roles, it explores how different scholars have understood women’s participation, responsibility, and authority within the Muslim community.
Principal Investigator
  • Dr. Shuruq Naguib Lecturer in Islamic Studies Lancaster University
Research team members
  • Fatima Barkatulla SOAS London
  • Fatima Barkatulla Adjunct Lecturer of Usul al-Fiqh, Al-Azhar University
  • Dr. Alyaa Ebbiary Al-Azhar University

Past Research

There are a range of topics and questions that can be explored in the context of our 2025 strategic theme “Women at the Intersection of Theology, Ethics, and Society”, organized under the rubric of our three research areas, each of which comprises both historical and contemporary inquiries and applications. Studies from any disciplinary lens and methodologies are welcome, whether textual, qualitative, or quantitative. Multidisciplinary approaches and collaborations are of interest.

  • There are a range of topics and questions that can be explored in the context of our 2025 strategic theme “Women at the Intersection of Theology, Ethics, and Society”, organized under the rubric of our three research areas, each of which comprises both historical and contemporary inquiries and applications. Studies from any disciplinary lens and methodologies are welcome, whether textual, qualitative, or quantitative. Multidisciplinary approaches and collaborations are of interest.

  • There are a range of topics and questions that can be explored in the context of our 2025 strategic theme “Women at the Intersection of Theology, Ethics, and Society”, organized under the rubric of our three research areas, each of which comprises both historical and contemporary inquiries and applications.

  • There are a range of topics and questions that can be explored in the context of our 2025 strategic theme “Women at the Intersection of Theology, Ethics, and Society”, organized under the rubric of our three research areas, each of which comprises both historical and contemporary inquiries and applications. Studies from any disciplinary lens and methodologies are welcome, whether textual, qualitative, or quantitative. Multidisciplinary approaches and collaborations are of interest.