Islam and the Humanities

Shahzad Bashir
Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities, Brown University
Professor of Religious Studies, Brown University
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Constantin Fasolt
Karl J. Weintraub Professor Emeritus of History, University of Chicago
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Nancy Florida
Professor of Javanese and Islamic Studies, University of Michigan
Living in a Time of Madness: The Last Days of Java’s Last Prophetic Poet
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Lina Fruzzetti
Professor of Anthropology, Brown University
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Sean Hanretta
Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University
A Moving Minority in Twentieth-Century Ghana: Goods, Discourses, and the Trap of “Islamization”
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Helge Jordheim
Professor of Cultural History and Museology, University of Oslo, Norway
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Nancy Khalek
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Brown University
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Aishwary Kumar
Assistant Professor of History, Stanford University
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Anne Murphy
Associate Professor in Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
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Margrit Pernau
Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
Emotions and Temporalities. Sayid Ahmad Khan's Concept of Modernity
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Judith Pfeiffer
Alexander von Humboldt-Professor for Islamic Studies, University of Bonn
Rashīd al-Dīn’s Craft: Narrating Parallel Pasts in the Fourteenth Century
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Nils Riecken
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
Abdallah Laroui’s Reading of Tradition
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Kaya Şahin
Associate Professor of History, Indiana University, Bloomington
To Observe, to Record, to Memorialize (ca. 1582): Depicting the Circumcision of an Ottoman Prince
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Dana Sajdi
Associate Professor of History, Boston College
In Defense of Damascus: The Genre of Prose Cityscapes (12th and 16th Centuries) 
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Rian Thum
Associate Professor of History, Loyola University
What is Islamic History?
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Meltem Toksoz
Visiting Associate Professor in Middle East Studies
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