Dr David Emmanuel Singh

David joined OCMS faculty in 2003 after a varied exposure to academic and administrative work with the Bible Society (NW India), the Henry Martyn Institute for Islamic Studies, and Union Biblical Seminary. His researches towards awards focussed on a 12th century Islamic theosophist, Ibn ‘Arabi and a living South Asian sect of Islam called the Mahdawiyya.

He has since expanding his methodological (Ethnography, Biographical History, etc.) and disciplinary boundaries (Social-Anthropology, Conversion Studies, World Christianity, Interfaith and Theology Religions). He has supervising postgraduate researches for years in the areas above and is happy to invite new candidates to work with him.

He is the author of over 60 research articles, several guest edited journal issues, 9 edited books including a trilogy on Jesus and Islam and a more recent volume on Christianity and Transforming States, several encyclopaedia entries and book chapters and two research monographs: Sainthood and Revelatory Discourse: An Examination of the Basis for the Authority of Bayan in Mahdawi Islam (Oxford: Regnum and ISPCK 2003) and Islamization in Modern South Asia: Deobandi Reform and the Gujjar Response (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter 2012).