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Shaykh Afsan Yusaf Redwan

Shaykh Afsan Yusaf Redwan

Research Scholar of Education and Religion 

Email: a.redwan@ibnrushdcentre.org

Profile 

Shaykh Afsan Yusaf Redwan is Research Scholar of Education and Religion. He is a passionate and dedicated teacher who constantly seeks ways to improve and adopt new teaching pedagogies. His higher education experience has developed his ability to critically engage with concepts and synthesise different ideas to create exciting learning environments. Experience teaching undergraduates and marking assignments has enhanced how I provide student feedback and further developed my teaching practice. In addition, I have completed peer-reviewed publications on numerous topics. Research interests include religious studies, education, ethics, and theology.

Education

2019 CardiffUniversity(present) PhD in Theology and Religious Studies ‘Quranic Hermeneutics; a study on the pedagogical tools of English Qur’an translations impacting current exegetical typologies.’ Cardiff University.

Cardiff University Education Associate Fellowship Programme – Awarded AFHE – Fellowship reference PR259531

MA Islamic Studies – Distinction, Newman University Birmingham 

University of Hertfordshire

PGCE and QTS in Secondary teaching (Science) – TRN – 1586891

University of Bedfordshire (2012-2015)

BSc Biological Science University of Bedfordshire

Publications

Redwan A, Amin, MD, Carss, J., forthcoming2024, A Theoretical Exploration of Enhancement Sessions at Bedford Sixth Form, Practitioner Research in College-Based Education, IGI Global.

Redwan, A., Muslim World Book Review, forthcoming2023: The ethics of Generating Posthumans. Bloomsbury Academic.

Muslims in the UK and Europe Postgraduate Symposium, Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, 22-23 June 2023, forthcoming2024‘Engaging with the Quran in the Anglosphere: How New Textual Productions, Quranic essays and commentary contribute to the Discursive Canon of Anglophone Islam’.

Chapter in Islam and Pastoral Care edited collection, Kube Publishing, forthcoming2024. Redwan, A., Changing the fabric, embedding an Islamic ethos across the curriculum and form time: a case study on Al Hikmah Boys School.

Redwan, A., Muslim World Book Review, Vol 42, Iss.4, The Islamic Foundation 2022: I, WARBOT: THE DAWN OF ARTIFICIALLY INTELLIGENT CONFLICT, by Kenneth Payne. Location: C Hurst & Co. Publishers Ltd., 2021, ix+288pp. ISBN: 9781787384620

Redwan, A., GloQur Blog: Spiritual translations a review of ‘The Qur’an: English Translation, Commentary and Parallel

Arabic Text, Maulana Wahiduddin Khan and Prof. Farida Khanam. 2022

Redwan, A., “When The Earth Speaks Against Us: Environmental Ethics In Islam: Yaqeen Institute For Islamic

Research”, YaqeenInstituteForIslamicResearch, 2018, https://yaqeeninstitute.org/read/paper/when-the-earth-speaks- against-us-environmental-ethics-in-islam.

ProfessionalAssociations

British Association for Islamic Studies BRAIS Doctoral Academy, Cardiff University 

Pearson Associate 

―――, ‘Prior Cognitive Information and An Islamic Argument from Reason’. Wednesday 1st March 2021, Rationality, Theism and Atheism Conference, Tehran.

―――, ‘Ibn Taymiyya’s Case for Fiṭralism and the Kalām Evidentialist Rejoinder’. Saturday 6th December 2020, ASIPT Conference, Harvard University, Boston.

―――, ‘Destructibles and Indestructibles: Examining Some Problems Related to Resurrection and Bodily Continuity in Medieval Islamic Theology’. Monday 15th April 2019, BRAIS, Nottingham.

―――, ‘God was and No Thing was with Him’: Exploring Muslim Views on God and Abstract Objects’. Tuesday 22nd February 2019, Helsinki Analytic Theology Workshop, University of Helsinki, Finland.

―――, ‘Evil in the Biosphere: Towards an Islamic Evolutionary Theodicy’. Wednesday 11th April 2018, BRAIS, Exeter.

―――, ‘The Lord of the Excluded Middle: The Qur’ān, Logic and Arguments’. Wednesday 12th April 2017, BRAIS, Chester.

―――, ‘Into the Eschaton: Possible Animal Theodicies in Māturīdite Thought’. Sunday 29th October 2017, Kalam Research & Media Conference, Amman, Jordan.

RESEARH PROJECTS

  1. 1.Lead Researcher in ‘Beyond Foundationalism: New Horizons in Islamic Analytic Theology’ (John Templeton Grant: Award ID: 61383)
  2. Team Coordinator in ‘Revelation and Communication: A Muslim Theological Perspective’ with

International Foundation for Muslim Theology (John Templeton Grant: Award ID: 61439)

  1. Paraconsistent logic.
  2. Virtue epistemology.
  3. Resurrection and bodily identity in Islamic thought.
  4. Moral realism and divine command ethics.
  5. God and abstract objects.
  6. Disability, metaphysics and justice.
  7. Islamic argumentation theory. 10.Education Theory

RESEARCH INTEREST

  1. Sufism.
  2. Logic
  3. Modernism and Islamic thought.
  4. Islamic philosophical theology.
  5. Arabic linguistics and rhetoric.
  6. Qur’ān studies.
  7. Islamic law and legal theory.
  8. Ḥadīth studies.
  9. Islamic Education.

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TEACHING INTEREST

  1. Sufism.
  2. Philosophy.
  3. Theology.
  4. Logic
  5. Ethics
  6. Islamic Law
  7. Education

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND OTHERS

  1. British Association of Islamic Studies (BRAIS)
  2. Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics (SSME)
  3. The British Society for the Philosophy of Religion (BSPR)
  4. The Journal of Analytic Theology (JAT)
  5. American Academy of Religion (AAR)
  6. International Qur’an Studies Association (IQSA)
  7. European Academy of Religion (EuAR)