SHAFAQNA– The book “Shi’i Spirituality for the Twenty-First Century” by Rebecca Masterton is published in 2020 by Light Reading.
The book is collection of talks and articles that reflect upon the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), his daughter Fatimah (SA), his granddaughter Zaynab (SA) and the Twelve Imams (AS). It considers how our lives may be illuminated and our hearts strengthened in the fraught atmosphere of an often toxic modern age.
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About the Author
Dr Rebecca Masterton has graduated with a BA in Japanese Language and Literature; an MA in Comparative East Asian and African Literature and a PhD in Islamic literature of West Africa, in which she critiqued the effects of secularism and colonialism upon traditional Islamic teachings on the self, from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Dr Masterton has been teaching for nearly fifteen years through different media, including one-to-one tuition; short courses at Birkbeck College, University of London; BA and MA programmes at the Islamic College in London, both in-house and on-line; and on-line classes for the Islamic Institute for Postgraduate Studies (Damascus and Birmingham). She has also lectured widely at conferences both in Europe and the United States. Currently she is developing a series of online short courses on Islam and the humanities at Online.