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Al Mahdi Institute

AMI Staff

Dr Munzela Raza

Research Assistant

Islamic Legal Studies
Islamic Theology
Shiʿi Studies
Religion and Modernity

Biography

Munzela Raza completed a BSc (Hons) in Neuroscience in 2006 and MBChB in 2009 from the University of Manchester. In 2017 she enrolled in AMI’s four-year Hawza Programme which she successfully completed in 2021 with merit.

Thereafter, she completed an MA in Islamic Studies with merit from the University of Birmingham in July 2023. Her dissertation focused on ֫Allama Ḥillī’s Ghāya al-wuṣūl, specifically the section on ijtihād. She is currently pursuing further studies at the Al-Mahdi Institute.

Mohammad Gh. Seyed Fatemi, Ahmad Kaouri, Abbas Ramji and Munzela Raza, “A Purposive Approach to Islamic Marriage: A Re-Assessment of Q. 30:21” in the Islam and the Institution of Marriage: Legal and Sociological Approaches, edited by Katherine Lemons and Laurens de Rooij, 114-132. Birmingham: AMI Press, 2023.

Upcoming Publications:

Mohammad Gh. Seyed Fatemi, Imranali Panjwani, and Munzela Raza, “DNA Constructed Knowledge, Adultery & Parental Responsibility: A Critical Assessment of the Fiqhī Principle of Qā ida al-Firāsh and the UK Legal System” in the Islamic Perspectives on the Beginning of Human Life: Jurisprudential, Theological and Social Implications, edited by Mansooreh Sanaei and Yaser Mirdamadi. Birmingham: AMI Press.

“A Purposive Approach to Islamic Marriage: A Re-Assessment of Q. 30:21” AMI Conference (2023)

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