MIHE Public Lecture Series – 2021
Wednesday @ 4pm
ZOOM Meeting ID: 915 6787 3028
Passcode: 587587
Mohamed Shahid Mathee is a senior lecturer in the Department of Religion Studies at the University of Johannesburg. He studied in the Kuliyyah Shari’ah wa al-Qanun, Al-Azhar, Egypt. He obtained a Masters of Social Science from the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Cape Town followed by a PhD in Historical Studies from the same university. His current research focuses on marriage, divorce and paternity-dispute fatwas from the colonial era as a source for social history and Timbuktu’s twentieth-century chronicles.