Oliver Scharbrodt
Biographic Data
| ID | 700188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oliver Scharbrodt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oliver |
| FAMILY NAME | Scharbrodt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHARBRODT O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0439-1283 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Aesthetics, material culture and religious identity
The relationship between aesthetics, material culture and religious identity has become increasingly central to the study of religious formations in the humanities and social sciences. ‘Aesthetic s
Sunnis and Shi‘a
Laurence Louër’s book provides an accessible introduction to Sunni-Shiʿa relations in the Middle East and South Asia. It seeks to inform an understanding of current dynamics by using a long-durée historical perspective. Louër has acquired significant expertise on sectarian politics in the Gulf region, in particular transnational patterns of Shi‘i political mobilization in countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain, with her previous work be…
Contesting ritual practices in Twelver Shiism
Shiis perform a number of rituals on the first 10 days of the Islamic month of Muḥarram to mourn the killing of the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, Husayn, in Karbala in southern Iraq in 680CE. Among the most controversial rituals is the practice of blood-letting self-flagellation (taṭbīr). This article provides a comprehensive discussion of debates around this ritual among prominent Shii clerical figures of the 20th and 21st centuries. While t…
Recasting Islamic Law
The question of how elements of Islamic law are incorporated and codified in the positive laws of modern Muslim-majority states has received significant scholarly attention. What most of the different strands of scholarship share is the notion that the creation of modern states has caused a significant rupture in the legal traditions of Muslim-majority societies. One trend in scholarship assumes an inherent dichotomy between a secular state and a…
Divine Sovereignty, Morality and the State
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Divine Sovereignty and Clerical Authority in Early Shi‘i Islamism
Divine sovereignty ( ḥākimiyya )—as conceived by Abū al-A‘lā Mawdūdī (1903–79) and popularised by Sayyid Quṭb (1906–66) - has been a central component of Islamist thought. This article investigates the reception of the concept within Shi‘i Islam. As case studies, the article choses two prominent actors in the formative period of Shi‘i Islamism in Iraq: Muḥammad Bāqir al-Ṣadr (1935–80) and Muḥammad Taqī al-Mudarrisī (b. 1945). By discussing their …
Shi’a Minorities in the Contemporary World
New comparative perspectives on Shi’a minorities outside the Muslim world Key features Provides comparative insights into Shi’a Muslim communities across the globe, set in Muslim minority contexts Makes an important contribution to understanding the global dynamics of contemporary Shi’a Islam Illustrates how transnational Shi’a networks operate in Muslim minority contexts Discusses the impact of events in the Middle East on Shi’a Muslim minoritie…
Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī and the Controversy of the Sufi Gaze By Lloyd Ridgeon
Lloyd Ridgeon’s book provides a study of Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī (d. 1238 Ce), one of the most prominent Sufis in his time. He came originally from the Iranian city of Kerman and moved to Baghdad to study. At the height of his career, he was appointed by the ʿAbbasid caliph to lead one of the most important Sufi convents in the city. As an itinerant Sufi, Kirmānī was active and lived in Azerbaijan and Eastern Anatolia. He left quatrains in Persian a…
Khomeini and Muḥammad al-Shīrāzī
This article revisits the origins of Khomeini's concept of the guardianship of the jurisconsult (wilāyat al-faqīh) and argues that his own formulation of this concept needs to be embedded in debates around the clerical mandate in the state among clerical activists in Iraq he encountered during his exile. Focus will be on the so-called Shīrāzī network around the brothers Muḥammad (1928-2001), Ḥasan (1927-80) and Ṣādiq al-Shīrāzī (b. 1942) and thei…
Creating a Diasporic Public Sphere in Britain
Since the 1980s, the Borough of Brent, in north-west London, has been a major global hub of transnational Twelver Shiism. With the influx of Iraqi refugees, many clerical leaders of Twelver Shia Islam established their European headquarters in Brent, and, in addition to Damascus and Tehran, London became a major centre of Iraqi diaspora politics during Saddam Hussein’s regime. The transnational networks and organizations based in Brent engage in …
A minority within a minority
Academic scholarship on Shia Muslim minorities in the West has described them as ‘a minority within a minority’ (Sachedina 1994: 3) or as ‘the other within the other’ (Takim 2009: 143), referring to a certain sense of double-marginalization of Shia Muslims in non-Muslim societal contexts. They need to undertake particular efforts to maintain both an Islamic as well as particular Shia identity in terms of communal activities and practices and publ…
Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Volume 7
ISBN 978-90-04-29889-7 (e-book)
The Other Saudis
Muslims in Ireland
Buddhism and Ireland
Conventional narratives of Irish history of religions have concentrated on sectarian strife in Northern Ireland or the Catholic hegemony in the Republic of Ireland. During the so-called Celtic Tige
Religious Authority and Political Thought in Twelver Shi‘ism
The doctrine of the Imamate is the most distinguishing feature of Twelver Shi‘a Islam, central, as Mavani rightly states, “in the formulation of the Shi‘i religious ethos” (34). Unlike Sunni Islam
The Dynamics of Sunni–Shia Relationships
The sectarian divide between Sunni and Shia Islam and its current regional and political manifestations have gained renewed interest after the Shii political empowerment in Iraq following the Ameri
Gnostic apocalypse and Islam
Shaping the Public Image of Islam
Public discourse on Muslims in Europe has been characterized by a differentiation between "moderate" and "radical" Muslims. This discourse which distinguishes between acceptable and unacceptable forms of Islam also creates tensions and competitions among Muslims with organizations and individuals vying for leadership, recognition, and government sponsorship by presenting themselves as moderate voices within Muslim communities speaking out against…
Islam and Muslims in the Republic of Ireland
This article serves as an introduction to the special issue on Islam in the Republic of Ireland. The introduction gives a brief overview of previous studies on Islam and Muslims in Ireland and shows their links with the studies published in this issue. Second, it presents in a concise manner the historical development of Islam in Ireland with respect to the increasing numbers of Muslims. As Ireland became a new destination for immigrants during t…
Hutter, Manfred
Anthropos , Seite 257 - 258
The Salafiyya and Sufism
This article questions certain assumptions on the intellectual history of modern Islam and on one of the most influential modern reform movements, the Salafiyya. By looking at the Sufi origins of one of the main Salafī reformers, it relativizes the notion of an inherent anti-Sufism of this reform movement. The article examines how Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905), the famous Egyptian reformer, converted to Sufism in his youth after experiencing a spir…
Shaping the Public Image of Islam
Public discourse on Muslims in Europe has been characterized by a differentiation between "moderate" and "radical" Muslims. This discourse which distinguishes between acceptable and unacceptable forms of Islam also creates tensions and competitions among Muslims with organizations and individuals vying for leadership, recognition, and government sponsorship by presenting themselves as moderate voices within Muslim communities speaking out against…
The Dynamics of Sunni–Shia Relationships
The sectarian divide between Sunni and Shia Islam and its current regional and political manifestations have gained renewed interest after the Shii political empowerment in Iraq following the Ameri
A minority within a minority
Academic scholarship on Shia Muslim minorities in the West has described them as ‘a minority within a minority’ (Sachedina 1994: 3) or as ‘the other within the other’ (Takim 2009: 143), referring to a certain sense of double-marginalization of Shia Muslims in non-Muslim societal contexts. They need to undertake particular efforts to maintain both an Islamic as well as particular Shia identity in terms of communal activities and practices and publ…
Creating a Diasporic Public Sphere in Britain
Since the 1980s, the Borough of Brent, in north-west London, has been a major global hub of transnational Twelver Shiism. With the influx of Iraqi refugees, many clerical leaders of Twelver Shia Islam established their European headquarters in Brent, and, in addition to Damascus and Tehran, London became a major centre of Iraqi diaspora politics during Saddam Hussein’s regime. The transnational networks and organizations based in Brent engage in …
Divine Sovereignty, Morality and the State
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Islam and Muslims in the Republic of Ireland
This article serves as an introduction to the special issue on Islam in the Republic of Ireland. The introduction gives a brief overview of previous studies on Islam and Muslims in Ireland and shows their links with the studies published in this issue. Second, it presents in a concise manner the historical development of Islam in Ireland with respect to the increasing numbers of Muslims. As Ireland became a new destination for immigrants during t…
The Salafiyya and Sufism
This article questions certain assumptions on the intellectual history of modern Islam and on one of the most influential modern reform movements, the Salafiyya. By looking at the Sufi origins of one of the main Salafī reformers, it relativizes the notion of an inherent anti-Sufism of this reform movement. The article examines how Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905), the famous Egyptian reformer, converted to Sufism in his youth after experiencing a spir…
Contesting ritual practices in Twelver Shiism
Shiis perform a number of rituals on the first 10 days of the Islamic month of Muḥarram to mourn the killing of the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, Husayn, in Karbala in southern Iraq in 680CE. Among the most controversial rituals is the practice of blood-letting self-flagellation (taṭbīr). This article provides a comprehensive discussion of debates around this ritual among prominent Shii clerical figures of the 20th and 21st centuries. While t…
Divine Sovereignty and Clerical Authority in Early Shi‘i Islamism
Divine sovereignty ( ḥākimiyya )—as conceived by Abū al-A‘lā Mawdūdī (1903–79) and popularised by Sayyid Quṭb (1906–66) - has been a central component of Islamist thought. This article investigates the reception of the concept within Shi‘i Islam. As case studies, the article choses two prominent actors in the formative period of Shi‘i Islamism in Iraq: Muḥammad Bāqir al-Ṣadr (1935–80) and Muḥammad Taqī al-Mudarrisī (b. 1945). By discussing their …
The Salafiyya and Sufism
This article questions certain assumptions on the intellectual history of modern Islam and on one of the most influential modern reform movements, the Salafiyya. By looking at the Sufi origins of one of the main Salafī reformers, it relativizes the notion of an inherent anti-Sufism of this reform movement. The article examines how Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905), the famous Egyptian reformer, converted to Sufism in his youth after experiencing a spir…
Shaping the Public Image of Islam
Public discourse on Muslims in Europe has been characterized by a differentiation between "moderate" and "radical" Muslims. This discourse which distinguishes between acceptable and unacceptable forms of Islam also creates tensions and competitions among Muslims with organizations and individuals vying for leadership, recognition, and government sponsorship by presenting themselves as moderate voices within Muslim communities speaking out against…
Islam and Muslims in the Republic of Ireland
This article serves as an introduction to the special issue on Islam in the Republic of Ireland. The introduction gives a brief overview of previous studies on Islam and Muslims in Ireland and shows their links with the studies published in this issue. Second, it presents in a concise manner the historical development of Islam in Ireland with respect to the increasing numbers of Muslims. As Ireland became a new destination for immigrants during t…
Hutter, Manfred
Anthropos , Seite 257 - 258
Gnostic apocalypse and Islam
Buddhism and Ireland
Conventional narratives of Irish history of religions have concentrated on sectarian strife in Northern Ireland or the Catholic hegemony in the Republic of Ireland. During the so-called Celtic Tige
Religious Authority and Political Thought in Twelver Shi‘ism
The doctrine of the Imamate is the most distinguishing feature of Twelver Shi‘a Islam, central, as Mavani rightly states, “in the formulation of the Shi‘i religious ethos” (34). Unlike Sunni Islam
The Dynamics of Sunni–Shia Relationships
The sectarian divide between Sunni and Shia Islam and its current regional and political manifestations have gained renewed interest after the Shii political empowerment in Iraq following the Ameri
Muslims in Ireland
Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Volume 7
ISBN 978-90-04-29889-7 (e-book)
The Other Saudis
A minority within a minority
Academic scholarship on Shia Muslim minorities in the West has described them as ‘a minority within a minority’ (Sachedina 1994: 3) or as ‘the other within the other’ (Takim 2009: 143), referring to a certain sense of double-marginalization of Shia Muslims in non-Muslim societal contexts. They need to undertake particular efforts to maintain both an Islamic as well as particular Shia identity in terms of communal activities and practices and publ…
Creating a Diasporic Public Sphere in Britain
Since the 1980s, the Borough of Brent, in north-west London, has been a major global hub of transnational Twelver Shiism. With the influx of Iraqi refugees, many clerical leaders of Twelver Shia Islam established their European headquarters in Brent, and, in addition to Damascus and Tehran, London became a major centre of Iraqi diaspora politics during Saddam Hussein’s regime. The transnational networks and organizations based in Brent engage in …
Shi’a Minorities in the Contemporary World
New comparative perspectives on Shi’a minorities outside the Muslim world Key features Provides comparative insights into Shi’a Muslim communities across the globe, set in Muslim minority contexts Makes an important contribution to understanding the global dynamics of contemporary Shi’a Islam Illustrates how transnational Shi’a networks operate in Muslim minority contexts Discusses the impact of events in the Middle East on Shi’a Muslim minoritie…
Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī and the Controversy of the Sufi Gaze By Lloyd Ridgeon
Lloyd Ridgeon’s book provides a study of Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī (d. 1238 Ce), one of the most prominent Sufis in his time. He came originally from the Iranian city of Kerman and moved to Baghdad to study. At the height of his career, he was appointed by the ʿAbbasid caliph to lead one of the most important Sufi convents in the city. As an itinerant Sufi, Kirmānī was active and lived in Azerbaijan and Eastern Anatolia. He left quatrains in Persian a…
Khomeini and Muḥammad al-Shīrāzī
This article revisits the origins of Khomeini's concept of the guardianship of the jurisconsult (wilāyat al-faqīh) and argues that his own formulation of this concept needs to be embedded in debates around the clerical mandate in the state among clerical activists in Iraq he encountered during his exile. Focus will be on the so-called Shīrāzī network around the brothers Muḥammad (1928-2001), Ḥasan (1927-80) and Ṣādiq al-Shīrāzī (b. 1942) and thei…
Divine Sovereignty, Morality and the State
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Divine Sovereignty and Clerical Authority in Early Shi‘i Islamism
Divine sovereignty ( ḥākimiyya )—as conceived by Abū al-A‘lā Mawdūdī (1903–79) and popularised by Sayyid Quṭb (1906–66) - has been a central component of Islamist thought. This article investigates the reception of the concept within Shi‘i Islam. As case studies, the article choses two prominent actors in the formative period of Shi‘i Islamism in Iraq: Muḥammad Bāqir al-Ṣadr (1935–80) and Muḥammad Taqī al-Mudarrisī (b. 1945). By discussing their …
Contesting ritual practices in Twelver Shiism
Shiis perform a number of rituals on the first 10 days of the Islamic month of Muḥarram to mourn the killing of the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, Husayn, in Karbala in southern Iraq in 680CE. Among the most controversial rituals is the practice of blood-letting self-flagellation (taṭbīr). This article provides a comprehensive discussion of debates around this ritual among prominent Shii clerical figures of the 20th and 21st centuries. While t…
Recasting Islamic Law
The question of how elements of Islamic law are incorporated and codified in the positive laws of modern Muslim-majority states has received significant scholarly attention. What most of the different strands of scholarship share is the notion that the creation of modern states has caused a significant rupture in the legal traditions of Muslim-majority societies. One trend in scholarship assumes an inherent dichotomy between a secular state and a…
Sunnis and Shi‘a
Laurence Louër’s book provides an accessible introduction to Sunni-Shiʿa relations in the Middle East and South Asia. It seeks to inform an understanding of current dynamics by using a long-durée historical perspective. Louër has acquired significant expertise on sectarian politics in the Gulf region, in particular transnational patterns of Shi‘i political mobilization in countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain, with her previous work be…
Aesthetics, material culture and religious identity
The relationship between aesthetics, material culture and religious identity has become increasingly central to the study of religious formations in the humanities and social sciences. ‘Aesthetic s
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