Dr Afifi al-Akiti DPCM DPMS PMP
KFAS Fellow in Islamic Studies & Lecturer in Theology
Supernumerary & Governing Body Fellow
University of Oxford Muslim Chaplain
Education
BA (Belfast), MSt DPhil (Oxford)
Dr Afifi al-Akiti is a Fellow at Worcester College and as one of the University lecturers on Islam he oversees the teaching provision in the Theology & Religion Faculty. He teaches on all aspects of Islamic Studies.
- Islamic theology, philosophy and science.
- The works of al-Ghazali (d. 1111), especially with regard to the influences from the Greek philosophical tradition and, most notably, the writings of Avicenna (d. 1058).
- The relationship between science and religion in the Islamic world with particular attention to the reception of the rational sciences in the kalam tradition and in madrasa culture.
- Medieval Arabic manuscripts and Moroccan religious lithographs (Hajariyyat).
- Medieval Islamic astronomy (`ilm al-falak).
- Islamic law, primarily the Shafi’i school.