Dr Mohammed El-Sayed Bushra

MEng Hons (Loughborough), MA (Khartoum), MSc (LSE), PhD (Georgetown)

Teaching Fellow, Islamic Studies
Room: Richardson 5C18, 5th Floor, Richardson Central Tower

Email mohammed.bushra@otago.ac.nz

Mohammed is a teaching fellow in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Otago, where he has taught in the Religion Programme and the Politics Programme. He also serves an adjunct faculty member at the Boston Islamic Seminary in Chelsea, MA, USA.

He completed his PhD in Islamic Studies at Georgetown University, where he worked on 19th/20th-century transnational Islamic discourses of reform, with findings spanning Central Asia, Russia, China, Japan, India, the Ottoman domains, and Saudi Arabia.

In addition to his PhD, he holds an MSc in Political Theory from the London School of Economics, an MA in Islamic Studies from the University of Khartoum, and an MEng in Systems Engineering from Loughborough University.

Mohammed's research spans multiple disciplines, including intellectual history and political and social theory, with a focus on the reception and re-articulation of classical Islamic traditions within the registers of contemporary Islamic movements. He has published his research in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East and has presented his research at venues such as The University of Cambridge, Harvard University, and The Middle East Studies Association.

Mohammed is the translator and editor of the Arabic edition of S. Sayyid's pioneering work of social and political theory, Recalling the Caliphate: Decolonization and World Order (Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2014), published in 2018 by the Arab Network for Research and Publishing. He currently serves as the Managing Editor of Muftah, a biannual magazine that probes key issues of the metamodern through diverse perspectives.

Teaching

Papers taught in 2024

• RELS 235 / RELS 335 Religion, Law and Politics