Curriculum Vitae

YASIN DUTTON

Publications 2017

(a) Books

1. The Origins of Islamic Law: The Qur'an, the Muwatta’ and Madinan ‘Amal, Richmond: Curzon Press, 1999 (264 pp); 2nd revised edition, London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002 (264 pp).

2. Original Islam: Malik and the Madhhab of Madina, London: Routledge, 2007 (219 pp).

(b) Edited books

1. Editor, The Codicology of Islamic Manuscripts: Proceedings of the Second Conference of Al- Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, London: Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation, 1995 (145 pp); 2nd edition 2003.

1. “Sunna, Hadith and Madinan ‘Amal”, Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 4 (1993), pp. 1-31.

2. “The Introduction to Ibn Rushd’s Bidayat al-mujtahid”, Islamic Law and Society, vol. 1 (1994), pp. 190-205.

3. “Islam and the Environment: A Framework for Enquiry”, in Faiths and the Environment: conference papers, Centre for Inter-Faith Dialogue, Middlesex University, No. 1, 1996, pp. 46- 70.

4. “‘Amal v. Hadith in Islamic Law: The Case of Sadl al-yadayn (Holding One’s Hands by One’s Sides) When Doing the Prayer”, Islamic Law and Society, vol. 3 (1996), pp. 13-40.

5. “Juridical Practice and Madinan ‘Amal: Qada’ in the Muwatta’ of Malik”, Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 10, no. 1 (1999), pp. 1-21. - reprinted in Gavin N. Picken (ed.), Islamic Law, Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies, London: Routledge, 2011, vol. 2, pp. 3-21.

6. “Red Dots, Green Dots, Yellow Dots and Blue: Some Reflections on the Vocalisation of Early Qur’anic Manuscripts – Part I, Journal of Qur’anic Studies, vol. 1 (1999), pp. 113-40.

7. “Red Dots, Green Dots, Yellow Dots and Blue: Some Reflections on the Vocalisation of Early Qur’anic Manuscripts – Part II”, Journal of Qur’anic Studies, vol. 2 (2000), pp. 1-24.

8. “An Early Mushaf According to the Reading of Ibn ‘Amir”, Journal of Qur’anic Studies, vol. 3 (2001), pp. 71-89. - reprinted in Colin Turner (ed.), The Koran, Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies, London: Routledge, 2004, vol. 1, pp. 234-252.

9. “Some Notes on the British Library’s ‘Oldest Qur’an Manuscript’ (Or. 2165)”, Journal of Qur’anic Studies, vol. 6 (2004), pp. 43-71.

10. “‘An Innovation from the Time of the Bani Hashim’: Some Reflections on the Taslim at the End of the Prayer”, Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 16 (2005), pp. 147-176.

- reprinted in Gavin N. Picken (ed.), Islamic Law, Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies, London: Routledge, 2011, vol. 1, pp. 170-195.

11. “An Umayyad Fragment of the Qur’an and Its Dating”, Journal of Qur’anic Studies, vol. 9, issue 2 (2007), pp. 57-87.

12. “The Politics of Usury or the Politics of Zakat? Reflections on the Future of Islam in Britain”, Journal of Islamic Law and Culture, vol. 13, issue 2-3 (2011), pp. 226-41.

13. “Orality, Literacy and the ‘Seven Aḥruf’ Ḥadīth”, Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 23, no. 1 (2012), pp. 1-49.

14. “Old Light on a New Problem: The Kalala Verses Revisited”, Journal of Semitic Studies, vol. 59/1 (2014), pp. 357-376.

15. “Two ‘Hijazi’ Fragments of the Qur’an and Their Variants, or: When Did the Shawadhdh Become Shadhdh?”, Journal of Islamic Manuscripts , vol. 8 (2017), pp. 1-56.

(d) Contributions to books

1. “Natural Resources in Islam”, in Islam and Ecology, ed. F.M. Khalid with J. O’Brien, London: Cassell, 1992, pp. 51-67.

2. “Islam and the Environment: A Framework for Enquiry”, in Islam and the Environment, ed. Harfiyah Abdel Haleem, London: Ta-Ha Publishers, 1998, pp. 56-74.

3. “Conversion to Islam: The Qur’anic Paradigm”, in Religious Conversion: Contemporary Practices and Controversies, ed. Christopher Lamb and M. Darrol Bryant, London: Cassell, 1999, pp. 151-65.

4. “The Environmental Crisis of Our Time: A Muslim Response”, in Islam and Ecology: A Bestowed Trust, ed. Richard C. Foltz, Frederick M. Denny, and Azizan Baharuddin, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003, pp. 323-40.

5. “The Qur’an as a Source of Law: The Case of Zakat”, in Islamic Reflections, Arabic Musings: Studies in Honour of Professor Alan Jones, eds. Robert G. Hoyland and Philip F. Kennedy, Oxford: Gibb Memorial Trust, 2004, pp. 201-16.

6. “The Importance of Malik and the Maliki Madhhab Today” (in Arabic) in The Maliki School of Fez, Origins and Development: Conference Proceedings (in Arabic), ed. Hamid Lahmer, Rabat, Morocco: ISESCO Publications, 2010, pp. 59-70. [Also posted on the Riwaq al-Madhhab al- Maliki website, www.malikiya.ma/medias/docs/yassin_malik.doc.]

7. “Observations on Qadi ʿIyad’s Tartib al-Madarik and Its Importance for the Muslims of Our Time” (in Arabic), in The Scholars of Ceuta in Moroccan History and Fez-Ceuta Relations: Conference Proceedings (in Arabic), ed. Hamid Lahmer, Fez, Morocco: Balabil Press, 2010, pp. 195-202.

8. “The Importance of Malik and the Maliki Madhhab Today” [= edited version in English of No. 6 above] in The Four Madhhabs of Islam, Abdalhaqq Bewley, Aisha Bewley, and Yasin Dutton, Norwich: Diwan Press, 2010, pp. 51-65.

9. “Some Observations on the Gold Dinar from the Point of View of Maliki Fiqh” (in Arabic), in The Maliki Madhhab in Its Contemporary Context (in Arabic), ed. Hamza al-Kattani, Abdallah

Bennasr al-‘Alawi, and Mohammad al-‘Alami, Rabat, Morocco: Dar Abi Raqraq, 2012, pp. 599- 615.

10. “Sufism in Britain: The Da‘wa of Shaykh ‘Abdalqadir as-Sufi”, in Sufism in Britain, ed. Ron Geaves and Theodore Gabriel, London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014, pp. 93-110.

(e) Translations

1. Commentary on the Hizb of Gnostic Du‘as, by Sayyidi Hammoud ibn al-Bashir, Cape Town: Madinah Press, 2011 (95 pp).

(f) Popular articles

1. “The Sources of Islamic Law: An Overview – Part 1” (in German translation), in Islamische Zeitung (Potsdam, Germany), Issue 34 (December 1999), p. 8 (contd. p. 11).

2. “The Sources of Islamic Law: An Overview – Part 2” (in German translation), in Islamische Zeitung, Issue 35 (January 2000), p. 8.

3. “The Sources of Islamic Law: An Overview – Part 3” (in German translation), in Islamische Zeitung, Issue 36 (February 2000), p. 8.

4. “Islam and Environmental Crisis”, in Natura (World Wildlife Fund for Nature – Pakistan), vol. 27, no. 3 (2000), pp. 23-4.

(g) Book reviews

1. Aisha Abdurrahman Bewley (tr.), Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik ibn Anas: The First Formulation of Islamic Law, in Muslim World Book Review, vol. 10, no. 4 (1990), pp. 14-17.

2. Mohammad Iqtedar Hussain Farooqi, Plants of the Quran, in Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 3, no. 2 (1992), pp. 243-5.

3. John Burton, The Sources of Islamic Law, in Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 4, no. 2 (1993), pp. 237-40.

4. Norman Calder, Studies in Early Muslim Jurisprudence, in Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 5, no. 1 (1994), pp. 102-8.

5. Anne Baring, The Birds Who Flew Beyond Time, in Muslim World Book Review, vol. 15, no. 3 (1995), pp. 65-6.

6. F. S. Peters, A Reader in Classical Islam, in Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 7, no. 1 (1996), pp. 62-7.

7. Philip Stewart, Unfolding Islam, in Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 7, no. 1 (1996), pp. 67-70.

8-11. “Islamic Law and Its Sources”: review of (i) Taha Jabir al-‘Alwani, Source Methodology in Islamic Jurisprudence (Usul Al Fiqh Al Islami); (ii) Suhaib Hasan, An Introduction to the Science of Hadith; (iii) Fouad Muhammad Ayad (tr.): Ibn Hazm, Al-Muhalla in Islamic Fiqh; (iv) Joseph Kenny (tr.): Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani, The Risala: Treatise on Maliki Law; in Muslim World Book Review, vol. 16, no. 2 (1996), pp. 3-9.

12-13. Imran Ahsan Khan Nyazee (tr.): Ibn Rushd, The Distinguished Jurist’s Primer. Bidayat al- Mujtahid. Volume 1; and Mansour H. Mansour, The Maliki School of Law: Spread and

Domination in North and West Africa, 8th-14th Centuries C.E.; in Muslim World Book Review, vol. 16, no. 4 (1996), pp. 15-19.

14. Andrew Rippin, Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. Volume 2: The Contemporary Period, in Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 7, no. 2 (1966), pp. 328-33.

15. A. Kevin Reinhart, Before Revelation: The Boundaries of Muslim Moral Thought, in Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 8, no. 1 (1997), pp. 83-8.

16. Bertold Spuler, The Age of the Caliphs: History of the Muslim World, in Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 8, no. 2 (1997), pp. 240-2.

17. Neal Robinson, Discovering the Qur’an: A Contemporary Approach to a Veiled Text, in Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 9, no. 1 (1998), pp. 60-3.

18. Wilferd Madelung, The Succession to Muhammad: A Study of the Early Caliphate, in Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 9, no. 1 (1998), pp. 66-9.

19. Daniel Brown, Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought, in Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 9, no. 1 (1998), pp. 78-82.

20. Jaroslav Stetkevytch, Muhammad and the Golden Bough: Reconstructing Arabian Myth, in Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 9, no. 2 (1998), pp. 299-301.

21. Sherman A. Jackson, Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi, in Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 9, no. 2 (1998), pp. 301-3.

22. Beatrix Ossendorf-Conrad, Das “K. al-Wadiha” des ‘Abd al-Malik b. Habib: Edition und Kommentar zu MS. Qarawiyyin 809/40 (Abwab al-tahara), in Der Islam, vol. 75, no. 2 (1998), pp. 375-7.

23. Christopher Melchert, The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law: 9th-10th Centuries C.E., in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 26, no. 1 (1999), pp. 164-8.

24. Malise Ruthven, Islam: A Very Short Introduction, in Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 10, no. 3 (1999), pp. 319-22.

25.Tamara Sonn, Interpreting Islam: Bandali Jawzy’s Islamic Intellectual History, in Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 11, no. 1 (2000), pp. 73-5.

26. Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban (ed.), Against Islamic Extremism: The Writings of Muhammad Sa‘id Al-‘Ashmawy, in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, vol. 26, no. 2 (1999), pp. 326-7.

27. Ibn Warraq (ed.), The Origins of the Koran: Classic Essays on Islam’s Holy Book, in Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 11, no. 2 (2000), pp. 229-32.

28. Muhammad Abu-Hamdiyya, The Qur’an: An Introduction, in The British Association for the Study of Religions Bulletin, No. 90 (July 2000), pp. 17-18.

29. Abdalhaqq and Aisha Bewley, The Noble Qur’an: A New Rendering of Its Meaning in English, in Journal of Qur’anic Studies, vol. 2, no. 2 (2000), pp. 82-8.

30. Fazlur Rahman, Revival and Reform in Islam, in Turkish Journal of Islamic Studies / Islam Arastirmalari Dergisi, Sayi 4 (2000), pp. 281-3.

31. Michael Lecker, Jews and Arabs in Pre- and Early Islamic Arabia, in Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 12, no. 2 (2001), pp. 72-4.

32. G.R. Hawting, The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam: From Polemic to History, in Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 12, no. 2 (2001), pp. 177-9.

33. M.Y. Guraya, Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence (With Special Reference to Muwatta Imam Malik), in Journal of Law and Religion, vol. 15, nos. 1 and 2 (2000-2001), pp. 375-8.

34. Jonathan Brockopp, Early Maliki Law: Ibn ‘Abd al-Hakam and His Major Compendium of Jurisprudence, in Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 13, no. 1 (2002), pp. 42-9.

35. Harald Motzki (ed.), The Biography of Muhammad: The Issue of the Sources, in Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 14, no. 2 (2003), pp. 205-8.

36. Harald Motzki, The Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence: Meccan Fiqh before the Classical Schools, in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, vol. 15, no. 2 (2004), pp. 277-9.

37. Sheila Blair, Islamic Calligraphy, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, vol. 70, part 2 (2007), pp. 421-3.

38. Ze’ev Maghen, Virtues of the Flesh – Passion and Purity in Early Islamic Jurisprudence, in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, vol. 18, no. 3 (2007), pp. 433-5.

39. Agostino Cilardo, The Qur’anic Term Kalala, in Speculum, vol. 83, no. 4 (2008), pp. 970-1.

40. Gregor Schoeler (in collaboration with Shawkat Toorawa), The Genesis of Literature in Islam: From the Aural to the Read, in Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 22, no. 1 (2011), pp. 77-9.

41. François Déroche, Qur’ans of the Umayyads: A First Overview, in Journal of Qur’anic Studies, vol. 18, no. 1 (2016), pp. 153-7.

42. Keith E. Small, Qur’ans: Books of Divine Encounter, in Review of Qur’anic Research, vol. 2, no. 4 (2016), pp. 1-4.