Abdullah Sahin, Ph.D
About Lecturer
Dr. Sahin comes from an Islamic Studies, Theology, Educational Studies and Social Sciences background. He has conducted research on religious identity formation among British Muslim youth and worked on educational strategies to address the impact of religious extremism within Muslim minority and majority contexts. Dr. Sahin has developed the first recognised Masters’ level degree programme on Islamic education within the UK higher education system. He has taught at the universities of Birmingham, Aberdeen, and the Gulf University for Science and Technology (Kuwait). Before taking up his appointment at Warwick, Dr. Sahin worked as a Head of Research and Senior Lecturer at the Markfield Institute of Higher education. He served as a visiting professor (2009/10 Academic Year) at the Institut d’Etudes de l’Islam et des Sociétés du Monde Musulman at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Dr Sahin is a member of International Seminar on Religious Education and Values (ISREV).
PhD The University of Birmingham (1999-2002)
Thesis: Critical/Dialogical Islamic Education : Attitudes towards Islam and
modes of religious subjectivity among British Muslim youth
MEd The University of Birmingham (1995-1996)
Thesis: On J. Fowler’s faith development theory: An Islamic critique.
BA (Islamic Studies. First Class Honours) Faculty of Divinity, University of Ankara (1987-1992).
Thesis: Exploring the Dynamic/Contextual Character of Hermeneutics in Classical Muslim Legal Thought: An Inquiry into ‘Illa-Hikma distinction in Islamic Jurisprudence.
Senior Lecturer & Head of Research: MIHE, Affiliated with the University of Gloucestershire, UK. (2007-2016).
Visiting Professor: Institut d’Etudes de l’Islam et des Sociétés du Monde Musulman, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Paris, France. (2009-2010)
Lecturer in the Study of Islam and Muslims, University of Aberdeen, UK (2006-2007).
Associate Professor: Department of Humanities, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait (2005-2006).
Principle Researcher: International Research Project on “Religious Extremism and Kuwaiti Youth: an empirical inquiry into formation of religious identities in religious education settings” (2004-2006). (Funded by Ministry of Higher Education& Ministry of Religious Affairs Kuwait).
Research Fellow: School of Education, University of Birmingham (2001-2004).
Books:
Sahin, A (2023). Islamic Education: International Perspectives, Leiden: Brill. (Forthcoming)
Sahin, A (2018) (Ed) Islamic Education in Contemporary World: Traditions, Rearticulations & Transformation, MDPI Books/Socials Sciences Series, Basel. (ISSN 2077-1444) (This edited volume is a special issue of Religions https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/Islamic
Sahin, A (2014) New Directions in Islamic Education: pedagogy & identity formation: KUBE Academic, Markfield. ISBN 978-1-84774-033-5 Casebound ISBN 978-1-84774-064-9 e-book. (Rev Ed). https://www.kubepublishing.com/products/new-directions-in-islamic-education-2?_pos=4&_sid=0dc5cd19d&_ss=r
Book chapters:
Sahin, A (2022) Islam, Social Work and Common Good in the Muslim-Minority Context of Europe: Rethinking ‘shariah’ as Relational Ethics. In Exploring Islamic Social Work Between Community and the Common Good. Edited by H.Schmid and A. Sheikhzadegan, Cham: Springer. (pp.179-200) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-82371-9_8
Sahin, A (2021) Love of Learning as a Humanizing Pedagogic Vocation: Perspectives from Traditions of Higher Education in Islam. In Higher Education and Love: Institutional, Pedagogical and Personal Trajectories, Edited by Victoria de Rijke et al. London: Palgrave. (pp.80-136). https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-95880-0_11
Sahin, A (2021) Islamic Education within the Muslim Minority-Context of Europe: Pedagogy, Politics and Future Directions. In Islamic Religious Education in Europe: A Comparative Study. Edited by Leni Franken and Bill Gent, London: Routledge. (pp. 276-285). https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429331039-22/islamic-education-within-muslim-minority-context-europe-pedagogy-politics-future-directions-abdullah-sahin
Francis, L.J., McKenna, U., Sahin, A. (2021). Religion and the Rights of Refugees: An Empirical Enquiry Among Adolescents in England and Wales. In: Ziebertz, HG., Zaccaria, F. (eds) The Ambivalent Impact of Religion on Human Rights. Religion and Human Rights, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70404-9_3
Sahin, A (2018) The Contribution of Religions to the Common Good in Pluralistic Societies: An Islamic Perspective. In Public Theology, Religious Diversity and Interreligious Learning. Edited by Manfred L. Pirner et al. London: Routledge. (pp.27-40). https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429506390-4/contribution-religions-common-good-pluralistic-societies-abdullah-sahin?context=ubx&refId=20b917f3-a2be-468f-b210-93218f79470e
Sahin, A. (2017). Education as Compassionate Transformation: The Ethical Heart of Islamic Pedagogy . In: Gibbs, P. (eds) The Pedagogy of Compassion at the Heart of Higher Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57783-8_9
Sahin, A. (2017). Religious Literacy, Interfaith Learning and Civic Education in Pluralistic Societies. In: Interfaith Education for All. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-170-4_4
Sahin, A. (2014) Authority and autonomy: An Islamic Education perspective on Human Agency. In Negotiating autonomy and authority in Muslim contexts, Edited by M. Buitelaar & M. Bernards, Peeters: Leuven (pp. 67–85). https://www.abebooks.com/Negotiating-autonomy-authority-Muslim-contexts-BERNARDS/30003616081/bd
Sahin, A (2013) “A Theology of Belonging: the case of European Muslims reconsidered” in Pathways to a European Islam, edited by Hansjörg Schmid et al, European Studies Centre, University of Oxford/Institut für Studien der Kultur und Religion des Islams, Universität Frankfurt. 5
Sahin, A. (2011) Islam, secularity and the culture of critical openness. In British secularism and religion: Islam, society and the state Edited by Y. Birt et al. (pp. 3–24). Markfield: Kube.
Journal Articles:
Sahin, A. (2018) Critical issues in Islamic Education Studies: Rethinking Islamic and Western liberal secular values of education’, Religions, 9(335). https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/9/11/335
Sahin, A (2017) Dignity of Difference and Recognition of Interdependence: Reimagining Islamic Social Ethics within the Context of European Muslim Diaspora’, The Journal of Christian Social Ethics, (pp:26-40),
Sahin, A. (2016) Islam’s heritage of critical education: The missing catalyst in addressing the crisis informing modern Muslim presence, The Muslim World Book Review, 36(3), 6–20.
Sahin, A. (2016) The future of Islamic Education: A Case for Reform. RE Today, 33(3), )61–65).
Sahin, A (2016) Let’s tap into Islam’s heritage of critical education to defeat extremism in schools, The Guardian, 12/01/2016.
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Sahin, A (2014) Muslim Youth: challenges, opportunities and expectations, British Journal of Religious Education, 36/2:241-243.
Sahin, A (2010) The Complex Inheritance of the first generation: religious nurture among British Muslim Communities, OASIS, 6/12:45-48.
Sahin, A (2009) “The Qur’an in its Historical Context edited by G.S. Reynolds and Early Islam Between Myth and History: alHasan al-Basri and the formation of his legacy in classical Islamic Scholarship, By S.A Mourad”, The Muslim World Book Review, 29/2:19-24.
Sahin, A., L.Francis and F.Al-Failakawi (2008) “Psychometric Properties of Two Islamic Measures among Young Adults in Kuwait: The Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam and the Sahin Index of Islamic Moral Values”, Journal of Muslim Mental Health, 3/1:9-24 (2008).
Sahin, A. L. Francis et al (2006) “the psychometric properties of the Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude towards Islam among young adults in Kuwait, Muslim Education Quarterly, 23/1-2:69-82.
Sahin, A (2005) “Exploring the religious life-world and attitude toward Islam among British Muslim adolescents, in Edited by L. Francis et al, Religion and Adolescence: International Perspectives, University of Wales Press, (pp.164-184).
Sahin, A and Francis, L (2002) ‘Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitudes towards Islam’ in Muslim Education Quarterly, 19/4: 35-47.