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Professor Andrew Rippin has joined The Institute of Ismaili Studies as Senior Research Fellow in the ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²Ôic Studies Unit of the Department of Academic Research and Publications.

Professor Rippin is one of the foremost authorities in the study of the ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²Ô and ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²Ôic exegesis. He is Professor Emeritus of Islamic History at the University of Victoria in Canada, where he was also the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities from 2000-2010. He has also been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 2006.

For a number of years, Professor Rippin has been involved in the Institute’s workshops and publications in various capacities. On joining the ÎçÒ¹¾ç³¡ he said:

“I have been consistently impressed with the work the ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²Ôic Studies Unit has done at the Institute and I am excited to be able to join this group of scholars in their projects. This will be an enriching environment for me to work in and one to which I hope I can make a contribution.â€�

Professor Rippin began his academic career in Islamic Studies at the University of Toronto with an undergraduate degree in Religious Studies, after which he received a PhD from McGill University in Montreal. His dissertation was on the ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²Ôic ‘occasions of revelation’ (asbab al-nuzul). He taught at the University of Calgary for 20 years before moving to Victoria.

Professor Rippin is the author of a number of books, including The ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²ÔMuslims believe that the Holy ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²Ô contains divine revelations to the Prophet Muhammed received in Mecca and Medina over a period of 23 years in the early 7th century CE. More and its Interpretative Tradition (2001) and the two-volume textbook, Muslims, Their Religious Beliefs and Practices which was originally published in 1990 and is now in its fourth revised edition. He is also well-known for his edited volumes, among which are the influential Approaches to the History of the Interpretation of the ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²Ô (1988), The ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²Ô: Style and Contents (2001) and the Blackwell Companion to the ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²Ô (2006). Professor Rippin has also written some 400 articles, book chapters, encyclopaedia entries and book reviews. He has lectured in universities the world over and is a member of several distinguished editorial and journal advisory boards, including Oxford Bibliographies: Islamic Studies, Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²Ô, the Journal of ²Ï³Ü°ù’a²Ôic Studies, Arabica and the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies.