Mahdiyah Jaffer completed an LLB in Law at the University of Birmingham. She then undertook seminary studies at Al-Mahdi Institute between 2011 and 2015 and went on to complete an LLM in Health, Bioethics and Law at the University of Birmingham and a MRes at Royal Holloway, University of London where she conducted research on organ donation in Shīʿī jurisprudence.  

Mahdiyah’s interest in issues related to bioethics has seen her publish a chapter on organ donation in an edited volume and convene an international conference on organ donation in Muslim thought at AMI. The proceedings from this conference were published as Organ Donation in Islam: The Interplay of Jurisprudence, Ethics, and Society. 

Mahdiyah is currently a Tutor in Islamic Studies and a Research Coordinator at AMI where she oversees research into Islamic ethics. She also runs tutorials for students taking courses in Ḥadīth and Rijāl Studies and Qurʾanic Studies.  

Publications: 

• (As editor) Organ Donation in Islam: The Interplay of Jurisprudence, Ethics, and Society, edited by Mahdiyah Jaffer, Aasim I. Padela, and Gurch Randhawa. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023.
• “Shīʿī Juristic Perspectives on Bodily Ownership, Autonomy, and the Prohibition of Self-Harm,” in Organ Donation in Islam: The Interplay of Jurisprudence, Ethics, and Society, edited by Mahdiyah Jaffer, Aasim I. Padela, and Gurch Randhawa, 39-60. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023.