Rebecca Masterton
{{short description|British Islamic studies scholar}}
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Rebecca Masterton is a British Shia Islamic scholar, author and television presenter.
Early life
Masterton was born to a Christian family. She converted to Islam in 1999 and became a Shia Muslim in 2003.{{cite web |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2005_36_mon_06.shtml |title=After the London bombings |publisher=BBC |date=5 September 2005 |accessdate=4 January 2013}}{{cite web |url=http://imhussain.com/eng/index.php/interview/173-hrough-her-meeting-lecturer-in-the-islamic-collage-london-rebecca-masterton |title=My family were Christian in name, but not really Christian in belief |publisher=Imam Hussain.com-International Media |date=30 April 2012 |accessdate=4 January 2012}} She moved to London at the age of eighteen. She attended the School of Oriental and African Studies London, and received a BA in Japanese, an MA in Comparative East Asian and African Literature, and a PhD in francophone and Islamic mystical literature of West Africa.{{cite book |url=http://www.islamicthought.co.uk/confbooklet.pdf |title=Lecturer, Islamic College for Advanced Studies, London-Sessen II, page, 9 |publisher=Islamic Thought.com.UK |accessdate=4 January 2013}}{{Cite web |last=english |title=Rebecca Masterton – The Enlightened to Shia Islam Centre |url=http://al-mostabserin.com/english/2020/02/19/rebecca-masterton/ |access-date=2020-06-24 |language=en-US}}
Career
Masterton's academic work focuses on West African Sufism, Shia spirituality, colonialism, and modernity. She has previously taught at Birkbeck College and the University of London.{{Cite web |title=Rebecca Masterton |url=https://onlineshiastudies.com/rebecca/ |access-date=2022-05-28 |website=Centre for Shia and Cultural Studies |language=en-GB}}
She has appeared on Iranian Islamic media programs by Sahar TV, Press TV, HadiTV, and on the British Shia broadcaster Ahlulbayt TV.
Masterton is also a senior lecturer at The Islamic College in London.{{Cite web |title=Dr. Rebecca Masterton |url=https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/about/academic-staff/r-masterton-2/ |website=The Islamic College}}
She has also published her book of short stories Passing Through the Dream... To the Other Side.
Works
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- Shī‘ī Spirituality for the Twenty-First Century (London: Light Reading, 2020)
- Passing Through the Dream... To the Other Side. (Light Reading, 2008) {{ISBN|978-0955934407}}
Translations
- The Moral World of the Qur’an, by M. A. Draz, translated from French{{cite web |url=http://jis.oxfordjournals.org/search?fulltext=Rebecca+Masterton&submit=yes&x=0&y=0 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130415154134/http://jis.oxfordjournals.org/search?fulltext=Rebecca+Masterton&submit=yes&x=0&y=0 |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 April 2013 |title=Book Review |publisher=Oxford Journal.Org_Journal of Islamic Studies |accessdate=4 January 2013}}
- The Inner Dimensions of Hajj, by Zohreh Borujerdi, translated from Persian
= Articles =
- A comparative exploration of the spiritual authority of the awliyā' in the Shi'ī and Sūfī traditions with reference to the works of the Dhahabī Order and Allamah Tabataba'i
- Walayah as a Response to the Self-Other Dichotomy in European Philosophy
- Islamic Mystical Resonances in Fulbe Literature
- Islamic Mystical Readings of Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure
- A Critical Comparison of Cosmic Hierarchies in the Development of Christian and Islamic Mystical Theology
References
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External links
- [https://www.islamic-college.ac.uk/about/academic-staff/r-masterton-2/#resources Dr. Rebecca Masterton's profile at the Islamic College]
- [https://www.al-islam.org/person/rebecca-masterton Rebecca Masterton's page on al-Islam.org]
- [https://soas-uk.academia.edu/RebeccaMasterton Academia.edu profile]
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Category:21st-century Muslim scholars of Islam
Category:British scholars of Islam
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Category:Converts to Shia Islam from Christianity