Mizan Community Directory Joining our community allows you to dialogue and network with other scholars here at Mizan Project. Registration is required to comment upon features on the Mizan Project and Mizan Pop sites, as well as to annotate and comment upon articles published in Mizan: Journal for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations. To become a registered member of the community, please use the short form provided here. All Members A-D E-G H-J K-M N-P Q-S T-V W-Z A-D Mohammed HussainAhmad Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University (UNISSA), Brunei Darussalam Islamic studies, hadith, Malay and Arabic manuscripts, Malay world Show less HarrisonAkins University of Tennessee-Knoxville Terrorism, minority discrimination, Islam in South Asia Show less RedhaAl Lawati University of Exeter Islamic Philosophy Show less NahlaAl-Huraibi Sana'a University Gender, women, Islam, Muslim immigrants in the West, integration, family, Arabic I am from Yemen. I received my bachelors in sociology from Sana'a University in Yemen… Read more I am from Yemen. I received my bachelors in sociology from Sana'a University in Yemen in 1988, my master's in sociology from Ohio University, Athens in 1999, and my PhD in rural sociology from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio in 2009. I worked as a visiting assistant professor at Denison University in 2010, as a visiting assistant professor in Kenyon College from 2011 to 2016. I live in Columbus, Ohio with my husband, Mohamed Al-Ruwaishan and two sons, Abdulrahman and Zaid. My oldest son, Abdullah, lives with his wife and son in Amman, Jordan. I am interested in exploring the various ways Muslim immigrants in the West strive to create a new, hybrid, confident and inclusive identities and live styles. Show less Mizan Contributor: Comment onSeeking the Muslim Martin Luther TazeenAli Boston University, Graduate Division of Religious Studies Islam and gender, American Islam, Islamic law, authority Show less KeciaAli Boston University Islamic law, Islamic ethics, religious biography, gender and sexuality Show less Mizan Contributor: Annotation toResponse to Kecia Ali, “Redeeming Slavery" EvanAnhorn Boston University Islam and modernity, Islamic education Show less SeanAnthony The Ohio State University Early Islam, Late Antiquity Show less MusheghAsatryan University of Calgary Medieval Islam, early Shi'ism, I am a historian of medieval Muslim Middle East. I am interested in how religious… Read more I am a historian of medieval Muslim Middle East. I am interested in how religious ideas reflect social and cultural realities, and my area of research covers the Arabic and Persian Middle East. Show less EllenAsermely Boston University International relations focusing on the Middle East and North Africa, Muslim cultures, Arabic language Show less RoseAslan California Lutheran University Islamic Studies; material culture, sacred space, pilgrimage, and ritual Show less ThomasBarfield Boston University Anthropology, history Dr. Thomas Barfield’s current research focuses on problems of political development in Afghanistan, particularly on… Read more Dr. Thomas Barfield’s current research focuses on problems of political development in Afghanistan, particularly on systems of local governance and dispute resolution. He has also published extensively on contemporary and historic nomadic pastoral societies in Eurasia with a particular emphasis on politics and economy. Show less SamuelBarry Independent Scholar Religion, ancient history, Arabic sciences and philosophy Show less MichaelBates American Numismatic Society Islamic history, caliphates, numismatics University of Chicago A.B. 1963, Ph.D. 1975 Curator of Islamic Coins, American Numismatic Society, 1970-2005… Read more University of Chicago A.B. 1963, Ph.D. 1975 Curator of Islamic Coins, American Numismatic Society, 1970-2005 Curator Emeritus, 2005- Show less HelenBlatherwick SOAS, University of London Premodern Arabic literature, epic, Qur'anic Studies Show less JeffreyBristol Boston University Anthropology of Islam, Islamic law Show less GeorgeBristow Institute for the Study of Religion in the Middle East - ISRME Biblical and qur'anic Abraham narratives, comparative theology Show less KenChitwood University of Florida Global Islam, Muslim communities, Islam in the Americas, religion and culture, religion and pop culture, digital religion Show less HyunjinCho Boston University Nineteenth-century Persian art Show less OlgaDavidson Boston University Persian and Arabic languages and literature Olga M. Davidson earned her Ph.D. in 1983 from Princeton University in Near Eastern Studies.… Read more Olga M. Davidson earned her Ph.D. in 1983 from Princeton University in Near Eastern Studies. She is on the faculty of the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations, Boston University, where she has served as Research Fellow since 2009. From 1992 to 1997, she was Chair of the Concentration in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University. Since 1999, she has been Chair of the Board, Ilex Foundation. Show less VanessaDe Gifis Wayne State University Qur'anic hermeneutics; Islamic theology; the Abbasid Caliphate Show less Back to top E-G HusseinFancy University of Michigan Medieval Iberia and North Africa Hussein Fancy’s research and writing focus on the social, cultural, and intellectual history of religious… Read more Hussein Fancy’s research and writing focus on the social, cultural, and intellectual history of religious interaction in the medieval Mediterranean. In particular, he is interested in projects that combine the use of Latin, Arabic, and Romance archival sources. His first book, The Mercenary Mediterranean, examined the service of Muslim soldiers from North Africa to the Christian kings of the Crown of Aragon in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Far from marking the triumph of toleration, he argued, the alliance of Christian kings and Muslim soldiers depended on and reproduced ideas of religious difference. Show less MayFarhat University of the Holy Spirit, Kaslik, Lebanon (USEK) Islamic architecture, Islamic art, Safavid Iran Show less JeremyFarrell Emory University Islamic asceticism; formation of religious communities; lost works; Sufism Show less GregFisher Carleton University Roman Empire, pre-Islamic Middle East Greg Fisher earned a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford (2008) where he studied under… Read more Greg Fisher earned a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford (2008) where he studied under the supervision of Averil Cameron; this thesis was examined by Fergus Millar and Robert Hoyland. His research interests focus on the Middle East in late antiquity (AD 200–800), particularly on the political impact of the Roman and Persian empires in the region’s frontier zones. Show less JOhn4FLetcher4 CHS harvard Old Stuff Show less KathrynFlynn University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Interfaith dialogue between Islam, Christianity, and Judaism; interested in modern voices and schools within Islamic Studies Show less NiloofarFotouhi ILEX Foundation Middle Eastern & Near Eastern Studies Executive Director, ILEX Foundation Executive Director, ILEX Foundation Show less GarthFowden University of Cambridge Late Antiquity and Islam Show less AdamGaiser Florida State University Kharijites, Ibadis, Islamic sectarianism Show less Mizan Contributor: Comment onSeeking the Muslim Martin Luther KennethGarden Tufts University Al-Ghazali, Ibn Arabi, al-Andalus Ken Garden received his doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of… Read more Ken Garden received his doctorate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago in 2005. He is the author of The First Islamic Reviver: Abū Hāmid al-Ghazālī and his Revival of the Religious Sciences (Oxford: 2014). His current research centers the development of Sufism in North Africa and Muslim Spain in the 12th and 13th centuries. He also has a website that presents and analyzes examples of religious discourse from different currents in contemporary Egyptian Islam. Show less Mizan Contributor: Annotation toISIS, Eschatology, and Exegesis MeganGoodwin Northeastern University Show less Mizan Contributor: Annotation toEditor's Introduction Annotation toEditor's Introduction Annotation toEditor's Introduction Annotation toEditor's Introduction Annotation toEditor's Introduction Annotation toEditor's Introduction Annotation toEditor's Introduction Annotation toEditor's Introduction Annotation toEditor's Introduction More ... Less ... AymanGrada Boston University School of Medicine Dermatology, wound healing, philosophy, history of North Africa Show less MichaelGraves Wheaton College, IL Qur'an and biblical literature, Islamic origins Show less ToddGreen Luther College Islamophobia, Islam in Europe and the United States, secularization Show less ThomasGreene Florida State University Muslim ethics Show less Back to top H-J ZoharHadromi-Allouche The University of Aberdeen Hadith, Qur'an, Sira, Qisas al-anbiya', religious literature, folklore Show less LaurelHarig University of Chicago Pilgrimage, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, syncretism, relics Show less HansHarmakaputra Boston College Comparative theology, Islamic mysticism, Islamic theology, Muslim-Christian relations Show less RenataHolod University of Pennsylvania Landscape archaeology, artisanal practices, city layout, lighting medieval interiors Renata Holod is Professor, and Curator in the Near East Section, Museum of Archaeology and… Read more Renata Holod is Professor, and Curator in the Near East Section, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. She received her BA in Islamic Studies from the University of Toronto, MA in the History of Art from University of Michigan and Ph.D. in Fine Arts from Harvard University. She has done archaeological and architectural fieldwork in Syria, Iran, Morocco, Central Asia and Turkey, and on the island of Jerba, Tunisia. Her most recent project is a collaborative study of the grave goods of a Qipchaq kurgan in the Black Sea steppe of the thirteenth century. Show less AaronHughes University of Rochester Islamic origins, theory and method Show less Deepak GeorgeJacob Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology Health economics , Late Antiquity, Islamic calligraphy Show less Back to top K-M TomásKalmar Independent Scholar Medieval Europe Show less MarionKatz New York University Islamic law, ethics, gender, ritual Show less MariannaKlar SOAS University of London Qur'anic Studies, Islamic historiography, qisas al-anbiya' Show less NaomiKoltun-Fromm Haverford College Late antique Judaism and Christianity and the rise of Islam Show less EvynKropf University of Michigan Library Islamic codicology and manuscript culture (esp. bookmaking, use of writing material, structural repairs, reading and collecting practices) ; use of pictograms and other visual content in Sufistic cultures of knowledge transmission ; manuscript cataloguing & digital mediation of cultural heritage Show less NadiaKurd Thunder Bay Art Gallery Contemporary Islamic art and architecture Show less AzadehLatifkar Tehran University of Art Ilkhanid and Timurid art and architecture, art and culture of Central Asia Ph.D. candidate, History of Islamic Art, Tehran University of Art Ph.D. candidate, History of Islamic Art, Tehran University of Art Show less A. DavidLewis MCPHS University Popular culture, thanatology, eschatology, comic books, narratology A. David Lewis is a Faculty Associate with MCPHS University and holds a Ph.D. in… Read more A. David Lewis is a Faculty Associate with MCPHS University and holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Boston University. He is a founding member of Sacred & Sequential (a collection of scholars on comics and religion), co-editor of Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books and Graphic Novels, and author of the Eisner Award-nominated American Comic Books, Literary Theory, and Religion: The Superhero Afterlife. Show less Mizan Contributor: Comment onQahera Watches over Egypt Comment onMuslim Superheroes Han HsienLiew Harvard University Medieval Islamic history, Islamic political thought, Islam in Southeast Asia Show less NooraLori Boston University Migration, citizenship, Middle East, Indian Ocean Noora Lori’s research broadly focuses on the political economy of migration, the development of security… Read more Noora Lori’s research broadly focuses on the political economy of migration, the development of security institutions and international migration control, and the establishment and growth of national identity systems. She is particularly interested in the study of temporary worker programs and racial hierarchies in comparative perspective. Regionally, her work examines the shifting population movements accompanying state formation in the Persian Gulf, expanding the study of Middle East politics to include historic and new connections with East Africa and the Indian subcontinent. Show less ShariLowin Stonehill College Qisas al-Anbiya', Hadith, Qur'anic exegesis, comparisons with midrash and classical rabbinic exegesis Show less ChristineLuckritz Marquis Union Presbyterian Seminary Late Antiquity Show less FadhliLukman Orientalisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Show less MartinLund Linnaeus University/Gotham Center for New York City History, CUNY Graduate Center Comic books, popular culture, representation, identity Show less UlrikaMårtensson NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Qur'an, Tafsir, historiography, linguistics, political theory in religious forms Jeg har en mastergrad i arabisk og religionshistorie fra Stockholms Universitet (1989), og doktorgrad i… Read more Jeg har en mastergrad i arabisk og religionshistorie fra Stockholms Universitet (1989), og doktorgrad i religionshistorie fra Uppsala Universitet (2001) med avhandlingen "The True New Testament: Sealing the Heart's Covenant in al-Tabari's History of the Messengers and the Kings." Min forskning handler om islam. Takket være en kollega som for mange år siden, varslet meg til den franske religionshistoriker , Michel de Certeau (d. 1986), har jeg blitt mer og mer fascinert av hvordan moderne akademia begrepsligjører 'religion' og sin egen relasjon med det som 'vitenskap'. Jeg prøver å utforske skjæringspunktene mellom 'religion' og akademisk og teoretisk tenkning, og hva disse skjæringspunktene innebærer for hvordan indvider og institusjoner begrepsligjører og 'behandler' religiøse mennesker, gjenstander og bevegelser. Show less JeremyMenchik Boston University Political Science, religion and politics, Islam, Indonesia Show less AliMohamed George Washington University Islamic Studies Show less IlyseMorgenstein Fuerst University of Vermont Islam in South Asia, definitions of religion, history of religion, colonialism I am an Assistant Professor of Religion here at the University of Vermont. My specialization… Read more I am an Assistant Professor of Religion here at the University of Vermont. My specialization within the broad scope of the study of religion is Islam, with a particular regional focus on South Asia. My current research deals with issues of Muslim and Hindu religious identity, historiography, and the development of theories of religion. My research interests include South Asian Islam, Indo-Persian literature, Mughal Empire history, colonialism in South Asia, postcolonial theory, theories of religion, history of religion, religious identity formation, Sufism, and South Asian religions. Show less Back to top N-P Helle LykkeNielsen University of Southern Denmark ISIS, death and dying among Muslims, martyrdom Show less KristianPetersen University of Nebraska Omaha China, Media, Film Kristian Petersen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and co-director of the… Read more Kristian Petersen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and co-director of the Islamic Studies Program at the University of Nebraska Omaha. He is on the advisory board for the forthcoming Introductions to Digital Humanities: Religion series published with De Gruyter, and is co-editing Introductions to Digital Humanities: Research Methods in the Study of Religion with Christopher Cantwell. He is Assistant Director of MRB Radio at Marginalia Review of Books where he hosts a podcast called Directions in the Study of Religion and contributes to the First Impressions series. As the host of the New Books in Religion and New Books in Islamic Studies podcasts he discusses exciting scholarship with authors of new books. His first book is Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Scripture, and Language in the Han Kitab (Oxford University Press, 2017). He is currently editing a collection for the Mizan Series with ILEX Foundation, Muslims in the Movies: A Global Anthology, and writing a monograph entitled The Cinematic Lives of Muslims. Show less MatthewPierce Centre College Hagiography, Shi'ism, Gender My research focuses on early and classical Islamic history, particularly the development of Sunni and… Read more My research focuses on early and classical Islamic history, particularly the development of Sunni and Shi'i socio-religious boundaries in those periods. I am interested in the ways in which the construction of historical narratives reflect and influence the scope and meaning of cultural symbols related to gender, identity, and authority. Show less JohannaPink University of Freiburg, Germany Qur'anic exegesis, Qur'an translations Show less Mizan Contributor: Comment on“Do Not Take Unbelievers as Your Leaders" AyşePolat İstanbul 29 Mayıs University Anthropology and sociology of religion, religion state and society, Islam and modernity, late Ottoman Empire and Turkish Republic Show less ChristopherPrejean University of California Los Angeles Arabic, Arab Christianity, Islamic civilizations Show less Back to top Q-S Jessica AnneRahardjo SOAS and University College London Islamic art and architecture I am an art historian working in the field of post-colonial museology of Islamic art.… Read more I am an art historian working in the field of post-colonial museology of Islamic art. My current research examines the intersection between museums, cultural heritage, cultural representation and nationalism. I am also interested in an expanded field of Islamic art, in particular Southeast Asian Islamic art. Show less HusseinRashid islamicate, L3C Muslims in America, popular culture, Shi'ism Hussein Rashid, Ph.D., is founder of islamicate, L3C, a consultancy focusing on religious literacy and… Read more Hussein Rashid, Ph.D., is founder of islamicate, L3C, a consultancy focusing on religious literacy and cultural competency. He works as a contingent faculty member. He has a B.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from Columbia University, a Masters in Theological Studies focusing on Islam, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, focusing on South and Central Asia, from Harvard University. His research focuses on Muslims and American popular culture. He writes and speaks about music, comics, movies, and the blogistan. He also has a deep interest in Shi’i justice theology. Show less Mizan Contributor: Annotation toISIS, Eschatology, and Exegesis Annotation toResponse to Michael Pregill, "ISIS, Eschatology, and Exegesis" John C.Reeves University of North Carolina at Charlotte history of religions in Near East and Central Asia John C. Reeves (Ph.D., Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion) is Blumenthal Professor of Judaic… Read more John C. Reeves (Ph.D., Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion) is Blumenthal Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Much of his work probes the margins of conventionally conceived categories, exploring the overlaps and commonalities discernible among a host of Near Eastern fringe groups and texts which inhabit the twilight realms of cosmic arcana, apocalyptic fervor, and religious dualism in late antiquity and the medieval era. Show less JamesRiggan Florida State University Islam in North Africa; qur'anic healing Show less MikaelaRingquist Boston University International Relations, Public Health, Arts, Middle East, Afghanistan Show less Ali RidaRizek University of Goettingen Arabic and Islamic Studies Show less AbdullahSahin University of Warwick Islamic education Show less Mizan Contributor: Comment onShahab Ahmed’s What Is Islam? as Disciplinary Critique SabineSchmidtke Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Islamic Studies Show less KathrynSchwartz Harvard University Book History, print in Egypt Show less JessicaStern Boston University Violence, terrorism Show less Back to top T-V AlisonTerndrup Boston University History of Ottoman painting Show less KelseyUtne Cornell University Modern South Asia, commemoration, Islamic world, colonialism, Southeast Asia, public history Show less HuseyinVural Freie Universität Berlin Islamic Studies Show less Back to top W-Z Mushtaq AhmadWani Fatih Sultan Mehmet Waqf University IR Theory, Political Islam, Islamization of knowledge, Turkish politics, OIC, Kashmir Show less GeorgeWarner SOAS Sectarianism, hadith, Arabic and Persian literature Show less DavidWarren University of Edinburgh Contemporary Islam Show less LiranYadgar Yale University Jewish-Islamic relations in the Middle Ages, Mamluk Studies, religious polemics Liran Yadgar, a Postgraduate Associate at the Judaic Studies Program of Yale University and a… Read more Liran Yadgar, a Postgraduate Associate at the Judaic Studies Program of Yale University and a PhD Candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the University of Chicago, studies the social and intellectual history of Jews and Muslims in the Medieval Islamic World. He is particularly interested in the history of Jews in Mamluk Egypt and Syria (1250-1517), and Jewish-Muslim polemics. His dissertation, "The Judeo-Muslim Symbiosis Revisited: Jews and Muslims in the Later Middle Period (1200-1500 CE)," examines Jewish-Muslim intellectual exchange in three treatises from Egypt and the Maghrib. Show less Back to top
