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Senior Lecturer: Study of Islam
Name: Mohamed Shahid Mathee
Location: A-Ring 607, Auckland Park Kingsway Campus
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Email:听smathee@uj.ac.za
About Dr Mohamed Shahid Mathee
Mohamed Shahid Mathee is a Senior Lecturer in the Study of Islam. He joined the Department of Religion Studies in 2011 and is involved in teaching honours programmes and supervising postgraduate students.
He graduated from Al-Azhar 欧美福利100000 in Egypt with a BA Honours in Islamic Law and Modern Civil Law. He later obtained a Master鈥檚 degree from the Department of Religious Studies at the 欧美福利100000 of Cape Town, where he also completed a PhD in Historical Studies. His research broadly explores the Muslim written intellectual tradition in Africa. This tradition encompasses fields such as Islamic law, history, language, theology, literature, medicine, politics, commerce, Sufism, exegesis, prophetic traditions, and more.
His current research focuses on the social history of Timbuktu and Muslim West Africa, particularly examining fatwas on marriage, divorce, and paternity disputes from the colonial era, as well as the intellectual history of Timbuktu as reflected in chronicles from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.
Qualifications:
- PhD, Historical Studies, 欧美福利100000 of Cape Town, South Africa, 2011
Selected Publications:
Mathee, M.S. 2024. Yet Again Qur示膩n 4:34: A Syntax and Semantics-Rhetoric Reading鈥�, Journal for Islamic Studies, 42, 1-2.
Mathee, M.S. 2020. The Kit膩b al-Turjum膩n: a twentieth-century historiographical (Re)mapping of the southern Sahara and Sahel鈥�, The Journal of African History, 61, 3, 359-382.
Mathee, M.S. 2016. Curse motives in the 鈥淐urse of Ham narrative鈥�: land for Yahweh鈥檚 landless people?鈥�, Journal for Semitics, 25(2), 726-747.
Mathee, M.S. 2016. Probing the Theological Resources of a Seventeenth-Century t膩r墨kh: the T膩r墨kh al-S奴d膩n and Ash士ar墨 kal膩m Islamic Africa 7(2), 159-184.
Nobili, M., Mathee, M.S. 2015. 鈥楾owards a new study of the so-called T膩r墨kh al-fatt膩sh鈥�, History in Africa, 42, 37-73.
Mathee, M.S. 2011. Women鈥檚 agency in Muslim marriage: fatwas from Timbuktu,鈥� Journal for Islamic Studies, 31, 75-95.