Tayyaba rafiq
MPHIL ISLAMIC STUDIES AND HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
A graduate of International Relations from King’s College London and former Vice President of KCLSU, I have also undertaken both traditional and academic Islamic Studies in the UK, USA and Turkey, studying, among others, fiqh, hadith sciences, hermeneutics and intellectual history. Now as an MPhil candidate at the University of Oxford, and with the Aziz Foundation’s support, I aim to research how Islamic history, theology and Tasawwuf can inform understandings of liberation discourse. I aspire to engage Muslims with Islamic scholasticism and intend to utilise academia to better comprehend human rights practice, through faith-based research, accessible publications and policy work.