Responsibilities

Course Leader and Principal Lecturer, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Background

Academic Background

• BA Hons Persian History and Literature, Tehran University, 1972
• MPhil in Social and Political History of Iran, University of Manchester, 1984
• Diploma in Careers Guidance, Manchester Polytechnic, 1989

Research

• Iranian Social and Political History during the Safavid dynasty in the 16th Century, and the emergence of Shiism in Iran (M.Phil)
• study of multiculturalism and the position of the minorities in Iran, with particular reference to the Kurdish minority in Iran
• Islam in the West: the Political, Economic and Cultural Aspects of British Muslims today