Researcher in Islamic Theology and Education 

Email: s.chowdhury@ibnrushdcentre.org

Profile 

Dr. Safaruk Chowdhury studied Philosophy at Kings College London, completing it with the accompanying Associate of Kings College (AKC) award. He then travelled to Cairo to study the traditional Islamic Studies curricula at al-Azhar University. He returned to the UK to complete his MA at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London with distinction. His doctoral dissertation was on the eminent Sufi hagiographer and theoretician Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami (d. 412/1021), published as A Sufi Apologist of Nishapur: The Life and Thought of Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami (Sheffield: Equinox Publishing, 2019).

Dr. Chowdhury has published numerous academic articles in the fields of Islamic philosophy and theology focusing on ethics, metaphysics, logic and epistemology. His most recent book is Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil (New York and Cairo: AUC Press, 2021), which is the first work in Islamic Studies to treat the topic within the analytic theology approach. Chowdhury was the lead researcher on the project Beyond Foundationalism: New Horizons in Muslim Analytic Theology, funded under a John Templeton Foundation grant award in association with Cambridge Muslim College and Aziz Foundation, exploring new vistas in Islamic epistemology.

Dr. Chowdhury is a past lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and Birkbeck, University of London. He runs the Islamic Analytic Theology website, and his academic work can be found on his Academia.edu page. He is currently a lecturer and researcher at the Ibn Rushd Centre for Excellence for Islamic Research, a senior instructor at the Whitethread Institute, executive editor of the Journal of Islamic Philosophy and chair of the Islamic Literary Society.

Education

Ph.D. in Islamic Studies. Area of study: Sufism, SOAS, London, UK.

M.A. Islamic (distinction). SOAS, London, UK.

B.A. Philosophy. Kings College London, London, UK.

A.K.C. Associate of Kings College. Christian Theology. Kings College London, London, UK. Diploma, Arabic. Ministry of Education, Cairo, Egypt. Accrediting body: Wizārat al-Taʿlīm

Publications 

Monographs

2021. Safaruk Chowdhury, Islamic Theology andTheProblem ofEvil. American University Cairo Press, New York and Cairo.

2019. A Ṣūfi Apologist of Nishāpūr: The Life and Thought of Abū ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī. Equinox Publishing. Sheffield.

Independent

2021. A Treatise on Disputation and Argument: Risālat al-Ādāb FīʿIlm al-Baḥth wa’l-Munāẓara. Dar al-Nicosia. London.

2013. IntroducingArabicRhetoric.A NewRevised&ExpandedVersion. Dar al-Nicosia. London.

Journal Articles