Justin Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3857771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7216-793X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1915 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Democratized storytelling on the SCP Wiki
The SCP is a body of user-submitted fiction often compared to other user-submitted horror such as Creepypasta. While these comparisons have been made in research and among the SCP community, the SCP seems to function differently than other such sites. Very little research has been done on the SCP and what exists examines it as a work of horror and as an example of emerging online folklore. This article further expands upon this research by examin…
Muslim feminism as Islamic modernism: Women's activism in India between the Quran and the Constitution
The last 15-20 years have seen the emergence of a new trajectory of 'Muslim feminism' in India which has grounded Muslim women's rights discourse both in the direct interpretation of Islamic scriptures and also in principles derived from the Indian Constitution. Examining two prominent Muslim women's organizations-the All India Muslim Women's Personal Law Board and the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan-this article examines how this form of Muslim …
Remembrances of Rashīd: Life-histories as lessons in the Dēōband movement
The tazkira , a long-established genre of life-history writing in South Asian literature, was increasingly used over the course of the twentieth century to document the lives and achievements of ‘ulamā (‘learned men’, or scholars of religion). This article explores a foundational work within this genre: ‘Ashīq Ilahī Mīrutī's Tazkira't al-Rashīd (first published in 1908–1910), a life-history of the Dēōbandī scholar and Sūfī shāykh Rashīd Ahmad Gan…
Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Law and the Making of Indian Secularism, written by Katherine Lemons, (2019)
Factors associated with low tuberculosis preventive therapy prescription rates among health care workers in rural South Africa
BACKGROUND: Despite extensive rollout of tuberculosis preventive therapy (TPT) in South Africa to reduce the incidence of tuberculosis among people living with HIV (PWH), rates of initiation and completion have remained suboptimal. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to identify factors associated with low TPT prescription rates among health care workers (HCWs) in rural South Africa. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted using an anonymous 39-it…
Acting upon our Religion: Muslim women's movements and the remodelling of Islamic practice in India
In the last 15 years, India has witnessed the expression of a variety of new non-conformist religious practices performed by Muslim women. A range of vibrant campaigns has been pioneered by Muslim women's associations, asserting women's claims to hold and lead congregational prayers, enter and manage mosques, visit shrines, officiate Muslim marriages, and issueshari'ah-based legal decisions. This article explores the twin questions of why these e…
Reformulating Muslim Matrimony: Islamic Marriage and Divorce in the Contemporary United Kingdom and Europe
In recent years there have been major ongoing debates in academia and in public life concerning the marriage and family practices observed by European Muslims, and the extent to which these do or c
Muslim Alternative Dispute Resolution: Tracing the Pathways of Islamic Legal Practice between South Asia and Contemporary Britain
In recent decades, a wide array of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) forums have taken shape within British Muslim communities. Exploring the development of Muslim ADR practices in contemporary Britain, this paper argues that these quasi-legal mechanisms are not entirely novel formations created afresh in the modern British socio-legal context; but rather, they have antecedents in long-standing cultural and religious norms that can be traced b…
Khandan-i-Ijtihad: Genealogy, history, and authority in a household of 'ulama in modern South Asia
Revisiting the debate on how Islam's 'learned men' ('ulama) have sustained their religious authority through changing historical circumstances, this article offers alongue duréeaccount of the so-called 'Khandan-i-Ijtihad': a family of renowned scholars and jurists who have held scholarly and popular precedence within South Asia's Shi'i clerical networks for some 250 years. Instead of analysing the'ulamaas a corporate group or a class of religious…
Where Only Women May Judge’: Developing Gender-Just Islamic Laws in India’s All-Female ‘Sharī‘ah Courts’
Over the last four years, India has become the centre for a major experiment in the implementation of a so-called ‘gender-just Islam’ by Islamic feminist organisations: the formation of a non-official, female-led sharī‘ah court network, within which women serve as qāẓī s (religious judges) to adjudicate disputes within Muslim families. Presenting themselves as counterweights to more patriarchal legal bodies, including both the official judiciary…
Towards a Muslim Family Law Act? Debating Muslim women's rights and the codification of personal laws in India
Muslim personal laws in India have never been systematically codified, in marked contrast both to Hindu family laws in India and to Islamic family laws in much of the Muslim-majority world, both of which have been subject to a far greater degree of codification. This article examines the call being made by one prominent contemporary Muslim women's organisation, the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA), for the wholesale codification of Muslim f…
The Shi‘a in Modern South Asia: Religion, History and Politics
While most studies of Shi'i Islam have focused upon Iran or the Middle East, South Asia is another global region which is home to a large and influential Shi'i population. This edited volume establishes the importance of the Indian subcontinent, which has been profoundly shaped by Shi'i cultures, regimes and populations throughout its history, for the study of Shi'i Islam in the modern world. The essays within this volume, all written by leading …
Shi'a in Modern South Asia: Religion, History and Politics
Urban Mythologies and Urbane Islam: Refining the Past and Present in Colonial-Era Lucknow
If any single work has served to cement the impressions of cultural sophistication associated with Lucknow, it is Hindstn mn Mashriq Tamaddun k Akhir Namna ya'ni Guzushta Luckna'u, ('Lucknow: the Last Phase of an Oriental Culture'), by the Lucknowi novelist and essayist 'Abdul Halim Sharar (1860 He continues
Recent Arctic amplification and extreme mid-latitude weather
Shi‘ism, Humanity and Revolution in Twentieth-Century India: Selfhood and Politics in the Husainology of ‘Ali Naqi Naqvi
The story of Imam Husain's martyrdom at Karbala has been told with variant emphases and interpretations in different historical contexts. This article examines one of the most famous modern tellings of this narrative: that of ‘Ali Naqi Naqvi, arguably South Asia's most influential Shi‘i mujtahid of the twentieth century. It argues that, from the 1930s–1940s, ‘Ali Naqi pioneered a novel perspective on Imam Husain, establishing him as a model for h…
Special Issue Isna ‘Ashari and Isma‘ili Shi‘ism: From South Asia to the Indian Ocean
Isna ‘Ashari and Isma‘ili Shi‘ism: from South Asia to the Indian Ocean , edited by Dr Justin Jones of Oxford University and Dr Ali Usman Qasmi of the Lahore University of Management Sciences, is our fifth special issue in recent years. Its articles, by scholars from a range of disciplines - history, religious studies, anthropology, political science - explore the historical and contemporary dynamics of various South Asian Shi’i communities living…
Islam at Home: Religion, Piety and Private Space in Muslim India and Victorian Britain, c . 1850–1905
Allegiance is due, under God, to the head of the family from his dependents, as to a king; and though I confess with shame that I have been a weak and faithless ruler hitherto, the time has come for me to exert my authority in removing the abuses which I have allowed to creep into my jurisdiction ... I have been close to death, and have realised that sooner or later I must give account to God not only for myself but for my family. In a bleak and …
Shi'a Islam in Colonial India: Religion, Community and Sectarianism
Interest in Shi'a Islam has increased greatly in recent years, although Shi'ism in the Indian subcontinent has remained largely underexplored. Focusing on the influential Shi'a minority of Lucknow and the United Provinces, a region that was largely under Shi'a rule until 1856, this book traces the history of Indian Shi'ism through the colonial period toward independence in 1947. Drawing on a range of new sources, including religious writing, pole…
Signs of churning: Muslim Personal Law and public contestation in twenty-first century India
For many Muslims, the preservation of Muslim Personal Law has become the touchstone of their capacity to defend their religious identity in modern India. This paper examines public debate over Muslim Personal Law, not as a site of consensus within the community, but rather as an arena in which a varied array of Muslim individuals, schools and organisations have sought to assert their own distinctiveness. This is done by discussing the evolution o…
The Local Experiences of Reformist Islam in a 'Muslim' Town in Colonial India: The Case of Amroha
This paper discusses shifts within Islamic life, ritual and practice in the town of Amroha in the United Provinces of India, during the eventful period of approximately 1860-1930. Based primarily upon Urdu writings produced about or by Muslim residents of the town during this period, it examines the ways in which wider religious reformist movements such as those associated with Aligarh, Deoband and Bareilly were received and experienced within ne…
Food, health and the consumer
The Protestant Missionary Propaganda in India
A few years ago (1906) the Protestant missionary enterprise in India celebrated its bicentenary. A few months ago the centennial celebration of the founding of American missions in India was an occasion of much joy. It must be a matter of deep interest, not only to the missionary body, but to the members of our Christian community in America to study both the progress and the vast and, in some cases, revolutionary changes of this great enterprise…
Signs of churning: Muslim Personal Law and public contestation in twenty-first century India
For many Muslims, the preservation of Muslim Personal Law has become the touchstone of their capacity to defend their religious identity in modern India. This paper examines public debate over Muslim Personal Law, not as a site of consensus within the community, but rather as an arena in which a varied array of Muslim individuals, schools and organisations have sought to assert their own distinctiveness. This is done by discussing the evolution o…
Where Only Women May Judge’: Developing Gender-Just Islamic Laws in India’s All-Female ‘Sharī‘ah Courts’
Over the last four years, India has become the centre for a major experiment in the implementation of a so-called ‘gender-just Islam’ by Islamic feminist organisations: the formation of a non-official, female-led sharī‘ah court network, within which women serve as qāẓī s (religious judges) to adjudicate disputes within Muslim families. Presenting themselves as counterweights to more patriarchal legal bodies, including both the official judiciary…
The Local Experiences of Reformist Islam in a 'Muslim' Town in Colonial India: The Case of Amroha
This paper discusses shifts within Islamic life, ritual and practice in the town of Amroha in the United Provinces of India, during the eventful period of approximately 1860-1930. Based primarily upon Urdu writings produced about or by Muslim residents of the town during this period, it examines the ways in which wider religious reformist movements such as those associated with Aligarh, Deoband and Bareilly were received and experienced within ne…
Towards a Muslim Family Law Act? Debating Muslim women's rights and the codification of personal laws in India
Muslim personal laws in India have never been systematically codified, in marked contrast both to Hindu family laws in India and to Islamic family laws in much of the Muslim-majority world, both of which have been subject to a far greater degree of codification. This article examines the call being made by one prominent contemporary Muslim women's organisation, the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA), for the wholesale codification of Muslim f…
Acting upon our Religion: Muslim women's movements and the remodelling of Islamic practice in India
In the last 15 years, India has witnessed the expression of a variety of new non-conformist religious practices performed by Muslim women. A range of vibrant campaigns has been pioneered by Muslim women's associations, asserting women's claims to hold and lead congregational prayers, enter and manage mosques, visit shrines, officiate Muslim marriages, and issueshari'ah-based legal decisions. This article explores the twin questions of why these e…
Shi‘ism, Humanity and Revolution in Twentieth-Century India: Selfhood and Politics in the Husainology of ‘Ali Naqi Naqvi
The story of Imam Husain's martyrdom at Karbala has been told with variant emphases and interpretations in different historical contexts. This article examines one of the most famous modern tellings of this narrative: that of ‘Ali Naqi Naqvi, arguably South Asia's most influential Shi‘i mujtahid of the twentieth century. It argues that, from the 1930s–1940s, ‘Ali Naqi pioneered a novel perspective on Imam Husain, establishing him as a model for h…
Muslim feminism as Islamic modernism: Women's activism in India between the Quran and the Constitution
The last 15-20 years have seen the emergence of a new trajectory of 'Muslim feminism' in India which has grounded Muslim women's rights discourse both in the direct interpretation of Islamic scriptures and also in principles derived from the Indian Constitution. Examining two prominent Muslim women's organizations-the All India Muslim Women's Personal Law Board and the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan-this article examines how this form of Muslim …
Reformulating Muslim Matrimony: Islamic Marriage and Divorce in the Contemporary United Kingdom and Europe
In recent years there have been major ongoing debates in academia and in public life concerning the marriage and family practices observed by European Muslims, and the extent to which these do or c
Khandan-i-Ijtihad: Genealogy, history, and authority in a household of 'ulama in modern South Asia
Revisiting the debate on how Islam's 'learned men' ('ulama) have sustained their religious authority through changing historical circumstances, this article offers alongue duréeaccount of the so-called 'Khandan-i-Ijtihad': a family of renowned scholars and jurists who have held scholarly and popular precedence within South Asia's Shi'i clerical networks for some 250 years. Instead of analysing the'ulamaas a corporate group or a class of religious…
The Protestant Missionary Propaganda in India
A few years ago (1906) the Protestant missionary enterprise in India celebrated its bicentenary. A few months ago the centennial celebration of the founding of American missions in India was an occasion of much joy. It must be a matter of deep interest, not only to the missionary body, but to the members of our Christian community in America to study both the progress and the vast and, in some cases, revolutionary changes of this great enterprise…
Food, health and the consumer
The Local Experiences of Reformist Islam in a 'Muslim' Town in Colonial India: The Case of Amroha
This paper discusses shifts within Islamic life, ritual and practice in the town of Amroha in the United Provinces of India, during the eventful period of approximately 1860-1930. Based primarily upon Urdu writings produced about or by Muslim residents of the town during this period, it examines the ways in which wider religious reformist movements such as those associated with Aligarh, Deoband and Bareilly were received and experienced within ne…
Signs of churning: Muslim Personal Law and public contestation in twenty-first century India
For many Muslims, the preservation of Muslim Personal Law has become the touchstone of their capacity to defend their religious identity in modern India. This paper examines public debate over Muslim Personal Law, not as a site of consensus within the community, but rather as an arena in which a varied array of Muslim individuals, schools and organisations have sought to assert their own distinctiveness. This is done by discussing the evolution o…
Shi'a Islam in Colonial India: Religion, Community and Sectarianism
Interest in Shi'a Islam has increased greatly in recent years, although Shi'ism in the Indian subcontinent has remained largely underexplored. Focusing on the influential Shi'a minority of Lucknow and the United Provinces, a region that was largely under Shi'a rule until 1856, this book traces the history of Indian Shi'ism through the colonial period toward independence in 1947. Drawing on a range of new sources, including religious writing, pole…
Recent Arctic amplification and extreme mid-latitude weather
Shi‘ism, Humanity and Revolution in Twentieth-Century India: Selfhood and Politics in the Husainology of ‘Ali Naqi Naqvi
The story of Imam Husain's martyrdom at Karbala has been told with variant emphases and interpretations in different historical contexts. This article examines one of the most famous modern tellings of this narrative: that of ‘Ali Naqi Naqvi, arguably South Asia's most influential Shi‘i mujtahid of the twentieth century. It argues that, from the 1930s–1940s, ‘Ali Naqi pioneered a novel perspective on Imam Husain, establishing him as a model for h…
Special Issue Isna ‘Ashari and Isma‘ili Shi‘ism: From South Asia to the Indian Ocean
Isna ‘Ashari and Isma‘ili Shi‘ism: from South Asia to the Indian Ocean , edited by Dr Justin Jones of Oxford University and Dr Ali Usman Qasmi of the Lahore University of Management Sciences, is our fifth special issue in recent years. Its articles, by scholars from a range of disciplines - history, religious studies, anthropology, political science - explore the historical and contemporary dynamics of various South Asian Shi’i communities living…
Islam at Home: Religion, Piety and Private Space in Muslim India and Victorian Britain, c . 1850–1905
Allegiance is due, under God, to the head of the family from his dependents, as to a king; and though I confess with shame that I have been a weak and faithless ruler hitherto, the time has come for me to exert my authority in removing the abuses which I have allowed to creep into my jurisdiction ... I have been close to death, and have realised that sooner or later I must give account to God not only for myself but for my family. In a bleak and …
The Shi‘a in Modern South Asia: Religion, History and Politics
While most studies of Shi'i Islam have focused upon Iran or the Middle East, South Asia is another global region which is home to a large and influential Shi'i population. This edited volume establishes the importance of the Indian subcontinent, which has been profoundly shaped by Shi'i cultures, regimes and populations throughout its history, for the study of Shi'i Islam in the modern world. The essays within this volume, all written by leading …
Shi'a in Modern South Asia: Religion, History and Politics
Urban Mythologies and Urbane Islam: Refining the Past and Present in Colonial-Era Lucknow
If any single work has served to cement the impressions of cultural sophistication associated with Lucknow, it is Hindstn mn Mashriq Tamaddun k Akhir Namna ya'ni Guzushta Luckna'u, ('Lucknow: the Last Phase of an Oriental Culture'), by the Lucknowi novelist and essayist 'Abdul Halim Sharar (1860 He continues
Where Only Women May Judge’: Developing Gender-Just Islamic Laws in India’s All-Female ‘Sharī‘ah Courts’
Over the last four years, India has become the centre for a major experiment in the implementation of a so-called ‘gender-just Islam’ by Islamic feminist organisations: the formation of a non-official, female-led sharī‘ah court network, within which women serve as qāẓī s (religious judges) to adjudicate disputes within Muslim families. Presenting themselves as counterweights to more patriarchal legal bodies, including both the official judiciary…
Towards a Muslim Family Law Act? Debating Muslim women's rights and the codification of personal laws in India
Muslim personal laws in India have never been systematically codified, in marked contrast both to Hindu family laws in India and to Islamic family laws in much of the Muslim-majority world, both of which have been subject to a far greater degree of codification. This article examines the call being made by one prominent contemporary Muslim women's organisation, the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA), for the wholesale codification of Muslim f…
Reformulating Muslim Matrimony: Islamic Marriage and Divorce in the Contemporary United Kingdom and Europe
In recent years there have been major ongoing debates in academia and in public life concerning the marriage and family practices observed by European Muslims, and the extent to which these do or c
Muslim Alternative Dispute Resolution: Tracing the Pathways of Islamic Legal Practice between South Asia and Contemporary Britain
In recent decades, a wide array of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) forums have taken shape within British Muslim communities. Exploring the development of Muslim ADR practices in contemporary Britain, this paper argues that these quasi-legal mechanisms are not entirely novel formations created afresh in the modern British socio-legal context; but rather, they have antecedents in long-standing cultural and religious norms that can be traced b…
Khandan-i-Ijtihad: Genealogy, history, and authority in a household of 'ulama in modern South Asia
Revisiting the debate on how Islam's 'learned men' ('ulama) have sustained their religious authority through changing historical circumstances, this article offers alongue duréeaccount of the so-called 'Khandan-i-Ijtihad': a family of renowned scholars and jurists who have held scholarly and popular precedence within South Asia's Shi'i clerical networks for some 250 years. Instead of analysing the'ulamaas a corporate group or a class of religious…
Factors associated with low tuberculosis preventive therapy prescription rates among health care workers in rural South Africa
BACKGROUND: Despite extensive rollout of tuberculosis preventive therapy (TPT) in South Africa to reduce the incidence of tuberculosis among people living with HIV (PWH), rates of initiation and completion have remained suboptimal. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to identify factors associated with low TPT prescription rates among health care workers (HCWs) in rural South Africa. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted using an anonymous 39-it…
Acting upon our Religion: Muslim women's movements and the remodelling of Islamic practice in India
In the last 15 years, India has witnessed the expression of a variety of new non-conformist religious practices performed by Muslim women. A range of vibrant campaigns has been pioneered by Muslim women's associations, asserting women's claims to hold and lead congregational prayers, enter and manage mosques, visit shrines, officiate Muslim marriages, and issueshari'ah-based legal decisions. This article explores the twin questions of why these e…
Remembrances of Rashīd: Life-histories as lessons in the Dēōband movement
The tazkira , a long-established genre of life-history writing in South Asian literature, was increasingly used over the course of the twentieth century to document the lives and achievements of ‘ulamā (‘learned men’, or scholars of religion). This article explores a foundational work within this genre: ‘Ashīq Ilahī Mīrutī's Tazkira't al-Rashīd (first published in 1908–1910), a life-history of the Dēōbandī scholar and Sūfī shāykh Rashīd Ahmad Gan…
Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Law and the Making of Indian Secularism, written by Katherine Lemons, (2019)
Muslim feminism as Islamic modernism: Women's activism in India between the Quran and the Constitution
The last 15-20 years have seen the emergence of a new trajectory of 'Muslim feminism' in India which has grounded Muslim women's rights discourse both in the direct interpretation of Islamic scriptures and also in principles derived from the Indian Constitution. Examining two prominent Muslim women's organizations-the All India Muslim Women's Personal Law Board and the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan-this article examines how this form of Muslim …
Democratized storytelling on the SCP Wiki
The SCP is a body of user-submitted fiction often compared to other user-submitted horror such as Creepypasta. While these comparisons have been made in research and among the SCP community, the SCP seems to function differently than other such sites. Very little research has been done on the SCP and what exists examines it as a work of horror and as an example of emerging online folklore. This article further expands upon this research by examin…
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