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Faculty Hossein Modarressi Professor of Near Eastern Studies I had two completely different courses of education. I first attended the Islamic seminary at Qum (Iran) where I received a complete traditional Islamic education in Arabic language and literature, Qur'an and hadith, Islamic philosophy, theology and law. I then pursued my secular education which ended with a Ph.D. in Islamic law from Oxford University. I came to Princeton first as a visiting professor in 1983 and was appointed to the Princeton faculty in 1986. Earlier in my academic life my main research interest was Iranian history, particularly local histories and historical documents on which subjects I have had several published books and many articles. My current research centers on the two fields of Islamic commercial law and development of Shi'ite doctrine. I am now preparing a bibliographical survey of early Shicite literature, and occasionally working on another one on the Islamic law equivalent of theorie de improvision. During the past several years I have taught courses on Islamic law and Islamic religion and thought. The topic and contents of both courses have been different each time as they basically follow the needs of the current students. I have supervised dissertations on such subjects as: final causality in Avicenna's philosophy, boundaries of the early Shi'ite community, Islamic law and non-conventional warfare, Fatima al-Zahra in the collective memory of the Muslims, and the image of the artist in Islamic society. Representative publications: Kharaj in Islamic Law, London 1983. An Introduction to Shi'i Law, London 1984 . Editor: al-Hakim al-Jishumi, Risalat Iblis ila ikhwanih al-manahis, Beirut, 1994 (revised edition). Zamin dar fiqh-i Islami (Land in Islamic Law), 2 vols., Tehran, 1983-84. Crisis and Consolidation in the Formative Period of Shi'ite Islam, Princeton, 1993. "Some Recent Analyses of the Concept of Majaz in lslamic Jurisprudence", Journal of the American Oriental Society, 106 (1986). "Early Debates on the Integrity of the Qur'an," Studia Islamica, 77 (1983). |
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