Fitzroy Morrissey is a historian and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where he teaches Arabic and Islamic Studies courses. His most recent book is A Short History of Islamic Thought (Head of Zeus, 2021). Morrissey’s areas of interest include the theoretical Sufism of Ibn ʿArabī and his followers, controversies in late-medieval and early-modern Islamic law (particularly the permissibility of music and other so-called “diversions”), Muslim-Christian and Muslim-Jewish interactions, Islamic “revivalism” in the early modern and modern periods, and the reception of the medieval Islamic tradition in modern Islamic thought.
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