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Hermansen earned a PhD from the University of Chicago in Arabic and Islamic Studies. Her graduate training included study of Arabic, Persian, and Urdu though language training in the respective countries. She specializes in Sufism, Islamic thought, Muslims in America, Shah Waliullah, [2] Islam and Muslims in South Asia, and women and gender in ...
Hamza Yusuf (born Mark Hanson; 1958) [5] is an American Islamic neo-traditionalist, [6] [7] Islamic scholar, [2] [8] and co-founder of Zaytuna College. [1] [9] He is a proponent of classical learning in Islam and has promoted Islamic sciences and classical teaching methodologies throughout the world.
Todd Lawson specializes in Islamic Thought, specifically Shi'i Quran commentary and philosophical theology. He is associate professor emeritus at the University of Toronto and lives in Montreal. He obtained his BA in English Literature from the University of British Columbia, and his MA and PhD in Islamic studies from McGill University (1980 ...
Smith received Bachelor of Divinity degree from Hartford Seminary and her Phd from Harvard Divinity School. [3] She has served as Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations and co-director of the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary and professor of Comparative Religion at Harvard University.
Gabriel Said Reynolds obtained his Ph.D. in Islamic Studies at Yale University. [1] In 2012-2013 he directed "The Qurʾān Seminar" alongside Mehdi Azaiez, a year-long collaborative project dedicated to encouraging dialogue among scholars of the Quran, the acts of which appeared as The Qurʾān Seminar Commentary.
Wael B. Hallaq and Donald P. Little eds. Islamic studies presented to Charles J. Adams. Leiden: Brill, 1991. Donald P. Little, ed. Essays on Islamic civilization: presented to Niyazi Berkes. Leiden: Brill, 1976. A special issue of Mamluk Studies Review [vol. 9 no. 1 (2005)] was presented as a festschrift in honor of Donald P Little.
Yasir Qadhi (formerly known by his kunya Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi) (born January 30, 1975) is a Pakistani American Muslim scholar and theologian. [8] He is dean of The Islamic Seminary of America and resident scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center in Plano, Texas. [9]
Davary's interests are broadly within the field of Comparative Religion focusing on Islamic studies. Davary's first monograph Women and the Qur'an: A Study in Islamic Hermeneutics (Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009), which was awarded the Adèle Mellen Prize, examines development, continuity, and change in the representation of women in the Qur'an with a focus on dynamic identities ...