Academic career

She obtained her PhD in Islamic Studies and Middle Eastern Politics from the University of Exeter

University of Exeter

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 in 1993. She is presently Lecturer in Modern Islam at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, and a Research Associate at The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. She was previously a Lecturer in Modern Islam at the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Durham. She has also served as the Secretary of the European Association for Middle Eastern Studies.
Dr Taji-Farouki is currently working on aspects of the legacy of Ibn Arabi

Ibn Arabi

Ibn ʿArabī was an Andalusian Moorish Sufi mystic and philosopher. His full name was Abū 'Abdillāh Muḥammad ibn 'Alī ibn Muḥammad ibn `Arabī .-Biography:...

 in the 20th century.

Hizb al-Tahrir

Taji-Farouki's 1996 work A Fundamental Quest: Hizb al-Tahrir and the Search for the Islamic Caliphate is the "only in-depth academic research ever conducted on the movement". Taji-Farouki was given exclusive access to an extensive range of internal Hizb al-Tahrir material and her work comprehensively documents the emergence, history, ideology, strategy and structure of the movement. Taji-Farouki is the only Western

Western culture

Western culture, sometimes equated with Western civilization or European civilization, refers to cultures of European origin and is used very broadly to refer to a heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, religious beliefs, political systems, and specific artifacts and...

 academic to have interviewed Ata Khalil Abu-Rashta, the current leader of Hizb al-Tahrir.

Selected bibliography

• A Fundamental Quest: Hizb al-Tahrir and the Search for the Islamic Caliphate (1996)
• Muslim Identity and the Balkan State (co-edited, 1997)
• Muslim-Jewish Encounters: Intellectual Traditions and Modern Politics (co-edited, 1998)
• Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century (co-edited, 2004)
• Modern Muslim Intellectuals and the Qur'an (edited, 2004)
• Ibn 'Arabi, A Prayer for Spiritual Elevation and Protection, al-Dawr al-a'la (Hizb al-wiqaya), Study, translation, transliteration and Arabic text (2006)
• Beshara and Ibn ‘Arabi: A Movement of Sufi Spirituality in the Modern World (2007)