Rebecca Masterton was born into a Christian family. She gravitated towards Islam in 1999 and became a Shia Muslim in 2003. At the age of eighteen, she moved to London and studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where she received a Bachelor’s degree in Japanese, a Master’s degree in Comparative Literature of East Asia and Africa, and a PhD in French and West African Islamic Literature. Masterton’s academic work focuses on Sufism and mysticism in West Africa, Shia spirituality, colonialism, and modernity. She has previously taught at Birkbeck College and the University of London. Masterton has appeared on Iranian Islamic media programs from television networks such as Sahar, Press TV, Hadi TV, and the Shia Ahlulbayt TV network in Britain. She is also a senior lecturer at the Islamic College in London.
- Shī‘ī Spirituality for the Twenty-First Century (London: Light Reading, 2020)
- Passing Through the Dream… To the Other Side. (Light Reading, 2008)
Translations
- The Moral World of the Qur’an, by M. A. Draz, translated from French[7]
- The Inner Dimensions of Hajj, by Zohreh Borujerdi, translated from Persian
Articles
- A comparative exploration of the spiritual authority of the awliyā’ in the Shi’ī and Sūfī traditions with reference to the works of the Dhahabī Order and Allamah Tabataba’i
- Walayah as a Response to the Self-Other Dichotomy in European Philosophy
- Islamic Mystical Resonances in Fulbe Literature
- Islamic Mystical Readings of Cheikh Hamidou Kane‘s Ambiguous Adventure
- A Critical Comparison of Cosmic Hierarchies in the Development of Christian and Islamic Mystical Theology
