Dr. Talal al-Azem

Dr. Talal Al-Azem is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Boğaziçi University. He previously served as Academic Director of Cambridge Muslim College and as the Mohammed Noah Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and Islamic Centre Lecturer in Classical Islam in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. He studied the traditional Islamic sciences in Syria and Turkey and has written and lectured extensively on the history and philosophy of Islamic education, as well as the history of Muslim jurisprudence. He is the author of Rule-Formulation and Binding Precedent in the Madhhab-Law Tradition (Brill, 2017). Dr. Al-Azem holds a PhD and MSt from the University of Oxford and a BA in History and Near Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan.