Visions of Shari?a

Dr Ali-Reza Bhojani, Ph.D. (2013), Durham University, is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education, Lecturer at the Al-Mahdi Institute, and Research Associate at the University of Oxford. He is author of Moral Rationalism and Shari?a: A Study of Independent Rationality in Modern Shi ?i U?ul al-fiqh (Routledge, 2015).



Dr Laurens de Rooij, PhD (2016), Durham University, is visiting Lecturer of Islamic Studies at the University of Chester, and visiting researcher at the University of Cape Town. He has published a number of works, including Media Discourses, Muslims, and non-Muslims in the UK (Manchester University Press, 2019), and his forthcoming work Muslims and Representative Engagement (Routledge, 2020).



Professor Michael Bohlander holds the Chair in Comparative and International Criminal Law at Durham Law School. From 2015 - 2019, he was the International Co-Investigating Judge at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia in Phnom Penh. In 2017, he was appointed a judge at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in the Hague. He is the author/editor of over 200 publications, including translations of his work into Chinese, Farsi, French, Khmer, Spanish and Turkish.