Al-Maktoum Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, About Us, Staff and Faculty

Dr. Khalid El-Awaisi

• Lecturer in Islamicjerusalem Studies
• Director of the Centre for Islamicjerusalem Studies

BEng (University of Dundee) 2002

MLitt (Almi-University of Abertay Dundee) 2003

PhD (Almi-University of Aberdeen) 2006

Research Interests
Islamicjerusalem Studies; Qur’anic & Hadith Studies; Geographies of the Qur’an; Sirah (Biography of Prophet Muhammad) & Early History of Islam; Historical Geography of the Holy Land; Editing Arabic Manuscripts

Background
Khalid El-Awaisi is a graduate of the pioneering field of Islamicjerusalem Studies. His main speciality is in the historical-geography of Islamicjerusalem and the geographical interpretations of the Qur’an. He has published a groundbreaking monograph: Mapping Islamicjerusalem: a Rediscovery of Geographical Boundaries (ALMI Press 2007) in which he was able to unearth the geographical extents of Islamicjerusalem and other religious/ spiritual entities around it, namely, the Holy Land and Land of Barakah.  This work won the Islamicjerusalem studies award from the Islamic Research Academy ISRA.  Recently he has edited the book Geographical Dimensions of Islamicjerusalem (CSP 2008).

Currently he is the Director of the Centre for Islamicjerusalem Studies at the institute through which he has organised several of the International Academic Conferences on Islamicjerusalem as well as the publication of the Journal of Islamicjerusalem Studies.

Current & Recent PhD Supervision
Sirah (Biography of Prophet Muhammad) & Early History of Islam; Early Prophetic Connections with Islamicjerusalem; Hadith Criticism (especially on al-Bukhari’s classification of weak narrators); Editing Arabic Manuscripts.Getting in touch

Dr. Khalid El-Awaisi
Al-Maktoum Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies
124, Blackness Road
Dundee, DD1 5PE
Scotland, UK

Tel: +44 (0)1382 908070
Fax: +44 (0)1382 908077
E-mail: k.awaisi@almi.abdn.ac.uk