Zeshan Ullah Qureshi

Dual PhD Researcher at the Crossroads of Islamic and Western Scholarship

Teaching Positions

  • PhD Research Fellow with Lecturing, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society

    • Lectured in BA courses on Qurʾān, Ḥadīth, & Political Authority in Arabia

    • Lectured in MA course on Ethnography & Muslims

  • Adjunct Lecturer, International Islamic University of Minnesota

    • Lectured in PhD course on Uṣūl al-Fiqh (Islamic Legal Theory)


Academic Presentations

  • MF CASR: "Beyond Orientalism: Edward Said & Foucauldian Discourse Analysis," 2025.

  • University of Agder: "From Loot to Libraries: The Provenance of Arabic Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe," 2025.

  • MF Manuscript Cultures: "Theoretical Perspectives Concerning George Sale’s Reception of Al-Bayḍāwī," 2025.

  • MF KOM: "Katolsk og protestantisk resepsjon av Koranen i Europa", 2025.

  • MF Manuscript Cultures: "Beyond Orientalism: George Sale, al-Bayḍāwī, and the European Qurʾān Translation Tradition," 2024.


Qualifications

Ongoing Doctoral Research

  • PhD in Religious Studies (focusing on Tafsīr/Qurʾānic Studies), 2024-2029, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society.

Submitted Doctoral Dissertation (Awaiting Viva)

  • PhD in Uṣūl al-Fiqh (Islamic Legal Theory), Al-Madinah International University (Malaysia), 2023-2026.

Islamic Studies

  • Master’s in Uṣūl al-Fiqh (Islamic Legal Theory), Islamic University of Madinah, 2018-2023.

  • Bachelor’s in Shari'ah (Islamic Law), Islamic University of Madinah, 2014-2018.

  • Postgraduate Certificate in Muslim Chaplaincy, College of the Prophet’s Mosque, 2016.

  • 1 Year Program in Arabic Language and Linguistics, Qortoba Institute Egypt, 2012-2013.

Other Academic Studies

  • Coursework in Philosophy, University of Tromsø, 2022-2023.

  • 1 Year Program in The History of Ideas, University of South-Eastern Norway, 2020-2021.

  • Bachelor’s in Electronic Engineering, Oslo Metropolitan University, 2009-2012.

  • Coursework in Biomedical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, 2011.


Research Languages

  • Arabic – Advanced

  • Aramaic (Syriac, Biblical, Imperial) – Intermediate

  • Urdu – Intermediate

  • Biblical Hebrew – Developing

  • Phoenician – Developing

  • Latin (Classical, Medieval) – Developing


Research Projects

  • PhD Dissertation - MF Norwegian School of Theology: "Beyond Orientalism: George Sale, al-Bayḍāwī, and the European Qurʾān Translation Tradition" (Conducted in Association with the ERC-funded project EuQu).

  • PhD Dissertation - Al-Madinah International University: "The Subkīs Utilization of Legal-Theoretical Distinctions (Furūq Uṣūliyya) Through Their Work “Al-Ibhāj,” in Preliminaries (Muqaddimāt), Legal Rulings (Aḥkām), and Language (Lughāt)".

  • Master's Thesis - Islamic University of Madinah: "Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Hindī’s Utilization of Legal-Theoretical Distinctions (Furūq Uṣūliyya) Through his Work “Nihāyah al-Wuṣūl fī Dirāyah al-Uṣūl.”"

  • Bachelor's Thesis - OsloMet: "Use of Wireless Technologies in Home Automation".


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