Mehrdad Alipour
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Sep 2017- Present PhD Student in Arab and Islamic Studies (University of Exeter) Apr 2001-Sep 2007 PhD in Comparative Philosophy (University of Qom: Centre of Tarbiat Modarres, Iran) Oct 1998-Dec 2000 MA in Theology and Islamic Sciences (University of Qom: Centre of Tarbiat Modarres, Iran)
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Jul 2016- Sep 2017 Utrecht University (Visiting Scholar) Sep 2015- Jun 2016 NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities) Research Fellow Oct 2014- Feb 2016 VU University Amsterdam (Researcher in Residence) Mar 2010- Feb 2012 McGill University, Department of Philosophy, Montreal (Visiting Scholar) Mar 2008-May 2013 Ḥawzah and University: Research Institute for Social Sciences and Islamic Studies (Department of Philosophy of Social Sciences), Iran (Assistant Professor) Sep 2000- Mar 2010 Seminary (Ḥawzah) of Qom (Lecturer of Uṣūl al-fiqh, Fiqh, and Philosophy of Ijtihād) |
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2015- International Association for the study of Religion and Gender 2016- NIAS Fellows Association (NFA) Link to My Academia: https://exeter.academia.edu/MehrdadAlipour Link to My ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4839-9255 More Recent Publications: . Shīʿa neo-Traditionalist scholars and theology of homosexuality: review and reflections on Mohsen Kadivar’s Shifting Approach. (2018). Theology and Sexuality. Vol. 24(3), 200- 218 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13558358.2018.1478187 . Toleransi Syariat Islam Kasus Operasi Ganti Kelamin Transeksual: kajian terhadap Fatwa Ayatollah Khomeini dan Syekh Tantawi. (2018). In Costly Tolerance: Tantangan Baru Dialog Muslim-Keisten di Indonesia dan Belanda. Suhadi (ed.). Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Center for Religion and Cross-cultural Studies: pp. 113- 147. . Transgender Identity, The Sex-Reassignment Surgery Fatwās and Islāmic Theology of A Third Gender. (2017) Religion and Gender. Vol. 7(2), 164- 179. DOI: http://doi.org/10.18352/rg.10170 . Essentialism and Islamic Theology of Homosexuality: A Critical Reflection on an Essentialist Epistemology toward Same-Sex Desires and Acts in Islam. (2017). Journal of Homosexuality. Vol. 64(14), 1930- 1942. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2017.1289001 . Islamic Sharī‘a Law, Neo-Traditionalist Muslim Scholars and Transgender Sex-Reassignment Surgery: A Case Study of Ayatullah Khomeini’s and Sheikh al-Tantawi’s Fatwas. (2017). International Journal of Transgenderism. Vol. 18(1), 91- 103. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15532739.2016.1250239 - This article is reprinted in The Fatwa as an Islamic Legal Instrument: Concept, Historical Role, Contemporary Relevance, edited by Carool Kersten, Published in 2018. Berlin, Germany: Gerlach Press, Vol. 3: 261- 282. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fatwa-Islamic-Legal-Instrument-Contemporary/dp/3959940203 . Same-Sex Desires and Acts in Islam: A Methodological-Theological Reflection on Kugle’s and Naraghi’s approaches. (2016). International Journal of Research from the Front-line (NRV). Vol. 1(1), 54- 67. . Review of Scott Kugle's "Living Out Islam: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims". (2015- English). Journal of Homosexuality. Vol. 62 (12): pp. 1746-1751. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2015.1091209
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