The Influence of Early Shiʿi Hadith Collections on the Formulation of the Doctrine of Imāma and its Eventual Crystallisation by the 5th/11th Century by Gurdofarid Miskinzoda

Gurdofarid Miskinzoda is the Head of the Shiʿi Studies Unit in the Department of Academic Research and Publication at The Institute of Ismaili Studies. She is also the Managing Editor of the Shiʿi Heritage Series. Miskinzoda’s academic background is in the fields of the history of the Near and Middle East and of Islam, Islamic Studies, philology and the study of Arabic and Persian literatures. She is the editor (with Farhad Daftary) of The Study of Shiʿi Islam: History, Theology and Law (London, 2014). Having completed her doctoral studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 2007, with a dissertation on medieval accounts of the Prophet Muhammad’s life, Miskinzoda joined the Institute of Ismaili Studies as a Research Associate. Most recently in 2019, Miskinzoda completed an MBA in Higher Education Management at the IOE, UCL. Miskinzoda is a Senior Fellow of the Hider Education Academy, UK.