Shahid Mathee
(Researcher, Department of Historical Studies, UCT)

Mohamed Shahid Mathee graduated with a degree in Shariah Studies at Al-Azhar in Egypt in 1998. In 2004 he obtained his Masters of Social Science degree from the University Cape Town Department of Religious Studies. His thesis was entitled “The Living Sunnah: A critical reading of Fazlur Rahman’s Islamic Methodology in History”. He is currently a researcher on the UCT-Timbuktu Manuscripts Project. Mathee is also pursuing a PhD at UCT’s Department of Historical Studies. His thesis is entitled “Fatwas as Historical Sources”.

Summer School Programme contribution

  • Symposium:  Timbuktu Manuscripts Revealed: Going to Timbuktu via its Manuscripts  more>>
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