Amanullah De Sondy

Amanullah De Sondy is a globally renowned academic and broadcaster at University College Cork. Amanullah has been appointed as Visiting Honorary Islamic Studies Scholar at the University of Melbourne 2024. Amanullah is Head of the Study of Religions Department since 2020 and Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Islam. Amanullah was Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies at Ithaca College USA between 2009-2010 and at University of Miami USA between 2010-2015. Amanullah has held Visiting Professorships in religious studies in South Africa’s North-West University and in Italy at the American University in Rome. He is an affiliated member of staff of the University of Glasgow's Department of Theology and Religious Studies. Amanullah’s first book, The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities, was published with Bloomsbury Academic in January 2014. His second book, Judaism, Christianity and Islam: An Introduction to Monotheism, also published with Bloomsbury Academic in October 2020. Aman's books have been positively reviewed in The Times Higher Education, New Books in Islamic Studies USA and BBC Radio Scotland's 'Sunday Morning with...'. Amanullah’s deep interest in learning and teaching roots from his first degree in Religious Studies and Education Studies with the Diploma in Education from Stirling University. This led to a short but illustrious career as a secondary school teacher of Religio

Amanullah De Sondy primary research is on Islam and Muslims with a specific focus on gender, sexuality and pluralism using interdisciplinary approaches. In his published works, he has focused specifically on masculinities in classical and contemporary Islam in relation to Islamic practice and the Qur’an. Amanullah’s research focuses on the Middle East in terms of Islam’s formative period of texts and traditions and expands globally, particularly through the lens of South Asia, in particular India and Pakistan, complicating any reductionist view of Islam. Amanullah's first monograph The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014) is the first monograph on the construction of manhood in the Qur’an and South Asian history and is highly-cited. Amanullah’s second co-authored monograph ‘Judaism, Christianity and Islam: An Introduction to Monotheism’ (Bloomsbury 2020). Both books were reviewed favourably in The Times Higher Education. Amanullah is a former member of the European Union's 'Global Exchange on Religion in Society ' (GERIS). A member of the Board of Women's Studies here at UCC and a member of its M.A. teaching staff. Amanullah is Associate Editor of CrossCurrents Journal (The University of North Carolina Press, USA), Co-Editor of ‘Islam in the World’ Series (Routledge UK), Editorial Board Member of Journal of Faculty of Theology (Recep Tayyip Erdogan University, Turkey) and Editorial Board Member of QTR: A Journal of Queer and Transgender Studies in Religion (Duke University Press, USA). Amanullah is the External Examiner for the Religious Studies Programme at Stirling University in Scotland.

Ph.D Students in Islamic Studies Melyssa Haffaf (Department of Modern languages and Literatures, University of Miami) (Completed 2018) Natalie Ghosn (Law, University of Miami) (Completed 2019)Isral Naska (Indonesia) (Submitted, awaiting viva 2023)