Samer Dajani

Dr Samer Dajani gained his PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from SOAS in 2015, before spending a year as a Research Fellow at the Cambridge Muslim College and then working as a lecturer in both Sufism and Modern Islamic Thought at the Muslim College in Ealing, London until 2020. He then stopped teaching to focus on a major new research project, and has given talks on selected subjects from this research at The University of Cambridge, The University of Exeter, SOAS and the annual BRAIS...See more

Dr Samer Dajani gained his PhD in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from SOAS in 2015, before spending a year as a Research Fellow at the Cambridge Muslim College and then working as a lecturer in both Sufism and Modern Islamic Thought at the Muslim College in Ealing, London until 2020. He then stopped teaching to focus on a major new research project, and has given talks on selected subjects from this research at The University of Cambridge, The University of Exeter, SOAS and the annual BRAIS Conference. His publications include 'Ibn Arabi and the Theory of a Flexible Sharia', in the Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society (2018), 'The Centrality of Ibn Arabi in Popular adith Chains', in the Journal of the Muhyid-din Ibn Arabi Society (2017) and a 2013 book, Reassurance for the Seeker: A Biography and Translation of ali al-Jafari's al-Fawaid al-Jafariyya, a Commentary on Forty Prophetic Traditions. See less