Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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 ...
He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin before attending graduate school at the University of Michigan. Marmura received his PhD in Islamic philosophy in 1959, under the direction of George Hourani, a well-known scholar of Islamic philosophy and theology. In the fall of 1959, he accepted a position at the University ...
Gabriel Said Reynolds is an American academic and historian of religion, who serves as Jerome J. Crowley and Rosaleen G. Crowley Professor of Theology and assistant professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Notre Dame. [1]
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.
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.
Todd Lawson (ed), Reason and inspiration in Islam: theology, philosophy and mysticism in Muslim thought: essays in honour of Hermann Landolt (London; New York: I.B. Tauris; London: in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies; New York: Distributed in the United States by St Martin's Press, 2005).
Hassan's theology is an example of Progressive Islam.She says the Qur'an is the "Magna Carta of human rights", prescribing human rights and equality for all, while the inequality of women in many Muslim societies today is due to cultural effects.