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Research Interests��

Islamic law, legal theory, theology, philosophy, exegesis, and history.

Overview

Aun Hasan Ali joined the Department of Religious Studies in 2015. He received his PhD from McGill �Թ���’s Institute of Islamic Studies. His research focuses on the intellectual history of Twelver Shi’ism, particularly law and legal theory. His first book, , builds upon recent scholarship in the fields of Religious Studies and Anthropology to argue that Twelver Shi'ism is better understood as a discursive tradition. At CU Boulder, Ali teaches Religious Dimensions of Human Experience, Islam, The Quran, Sufism, and Fundamentalisms. In addition to intellectual history, he maintains an interest in Urdu and Persian literature.

Selected Publications

• “Refraining from Seeking Clarification: A Chapter from the al-Wāfī fī sharḥ al-Wāfiya of al-Aʿrajī (d. 1227/1812).” In Kumail Rajani and Robert Gleave (eds.), Shiʿite Legal Theory: Sources and Commentaries. Edinburgh: Edinburgh �Թ��� Press/Gibbs Memorial Trust, 2022). Co-authored with Hadi Qazwini and Yusuf Ünal. Introduction, critical edition and translation.
• “T��� Canonization of Nahj al-Balāgha between Najaf and Ḥilla: Sistani and the Iconic Authority of the �Ѳ������ᾱʿ,” Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam 2/1 (2021): 3–23.
• “T��� Rational Turn in Imāmism Revisited.” Global Intellectual History 5/3 (forthcoming – accepted).
• “Some Notes on the History of the Categorization of Imāmī Ḥa��ī�ٳ�.” Turkish Journal of Shiite Studies 1/2 (2019): 215–233.
• “Reading the Story of Moses and Khiḍr through the Lens of Islamic Law.” English Language Notes 56/1 (2018): 209–212.
• “Mīrzā Abū l-Ḥasan Jilwah” by Encieh Barkhah. In Reza Pourjavady (ed.), Philosophy in Qajar Iran. Leiden: Brill, 2018. Translation.
• “T��� Discourse on ʿIlm al-Waḍʿ in Modern Shīʿī Scholarship.” Islamic Studies 50/3-4 (2011): 325–345.��
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Selected Presentations

• “Some Notes on the Uses of Documentary Evidence in Imāmī Law,’” The Seventh Annual Conference on Shiʿi Studies, The Islamic College, London, May 2022.
• “T��� Primacy of the Quran: Pushing the Boundaries of Critique,” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, TX, November 2021.
• “Ibn Idrīs al-Ḥillī and the Transformation of Shīʿī Law,” Center for Asian Studies, �Թ��� of Colorado Boulder, November 2021.
• “T��� Legal Purport of ‘Refraining from Seeking Clarification,’” The Sixth Annual Conference on Shiʿi Studies, The Islamic College, London, March 2021.
• “T��� Sanctuary of the Twelfth Imam in Ḥillah,” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, December 2020.
• ��ٳܲԲ�ī Ḥa��ī�ٳ� in Imāmī Law,” Shīʿī Studies Group Symposium, Franke Institute, �Թ��� of Chicago, October 2018.
• “Reading the Nahj al-Balāghah in Ḥillah,” Nahj al-Balāghah: The Word of ʿAlī, The Shīʿah Institute, Warburg Institute, �Թ��� of London, December 2017.��
• “T��� ����������� of al-ʿAllāmah al-Ḥillī to the Banī Zuhrah: Sources for the History of the School of Ḥillah,” Shii Studies: The State of the Art, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, December 2017.
• “Muḥammad Isḥāq Fayyāḍ on Islamic Governance,” Shīʿī Studies Group Symposium, Franke Institute, �Թ��� of Chicago, May 2017.
• “Understanding the Maqtal of Ḥusayn as Devotional and Mystical Literature,” Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, TX, November 2016. ����