Emory University
Committee on the Study of
Islam
Emory University
1997-98
The Committee on the Study of Islam is an informal group of
faculty (12 in 1998-99) from five departments in Emory College and from
the Emory School of Law. Each of the twelve has primary teaching
and research interests that bear upon the study of Islamic religion, history,
culture, or society. Eleven of the twelve members know and use in
his or her teaching and research one or more of the major languages of
the Islamic world. CSI faculty are affiliated with the West and South Asian
Religions Program in the Graduate Division of Religion. Along with
the WSAR Program, the CSI represents Emory in the Carolina/Duke/Emory Consortium
for the Study of Islam .
Members
Mahmoud Al-Batal (Middle Eastern Studies) Ph.D., Michigan.
Author of Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language. Arabic language
and culture. Co-author of Alif Baa: An Introduction
to Arabic Letters and Sounds, and Al-Kitaab fii Ta'allum al-'Arabiyya
[The Book on Learning Arabic] (Part One), with Kristen Brustad and
Abbas El-Tonsi.
Abdullahi An-Na'im (Law, Graduate Division of Religion Program
in Ethics and Society)* Ll.B. Khartoum University, Ll.M. Cambridge, Ph.D.
Edinburgh. Islamic Law, Islam and Politics, human rights. Author
of Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights, and
International Law.
Kristen Brustad (Middle Eastern Studies) Ph.D., Harvard.
Arabic Literature, Persian, Linguistics. Co-author of Alif
Baa: An Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds, and Al-Kitaab fii Ta'allum
al-'Arabiyya [The Book on Learning Arabic] (Part One), with Mahmoud
Al-Batal and Abbas El-Tonsi.
Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger (Religion)* Ph D Wisconsin.
Anthropology, religion in India, Hindu/Muslim folklore and religious performance.
Author of Gender and Genra in the Folklore of Middle India.
Benjamin Hary (Middle Eastern Studies) Ph.D., California/Berkeley.
Judeo-Arabic language and literature. Author of Multiglossia in Judeo-Arabic.
Marcia Inhorn (Anthropology) Ph.D., California/Berkeley.
Medical anthropology, gender and women's health, Islam, Middle East studies.
Author of Quest for Conception: Gender, Infertility,
and Egyptian Medical Traditions; Infertility and Patriarchy:
The Cultural Politics of Gender and Family Life in Egypt.
Franklin Lewis (Middle Eastern Studies) Ph.D., Chicago. Persian
language and literature, Arabic literature, Sufism, Iranian religions.
Co_author of In a Voice of Their Own: Stories by Iranian Women.
Richard C. Martin ( Religion)* Ph.D., New York University. Arabic
and Islamic studies, history of religions, Islamic theology, religion and
social conflict. Author of Islamic Studies: A History of Religions
Approach, and Defenders of Reason in Islam: Mu`tazilism from Medieval
School to Modern Symbol.
Gordon D. Newby (Middle Eastern Studies)* Ph.D., Brandeis.
Early Islam, Muslim-non-Muslim relations. Author of The
Making of the Last Prophet: A Reconstruction of the Earliest Biography
of Mohammad, A History of the Jews of Arabia: From Ancient times to their
Eclipse under Islam.
Elizabeth Carson Pastan (Art History) Ph.D., Brown University.
Medieval and Islamic art and architecture, stained glass, medieval audiences
and social context, Gothic revival. Author of The Early Stained Glass
ofTroyes Cathedral.
Devin Stewart (Middle eastern Studies)* Ph.D., Pennsylvania.
Arabic and Persian literatures, Shi'ite Islam. Author of The Balance:
A Commentary on the Qur'an and Authority and Orthodoxy in Islam:
Consensus and the Twelver Shiite Legal Tradition.
Carrie Rosefsky Wickham (Political Science) Ph.D., Princeton.
Islam and politics in the Middle East. Doctoral Dissertation:
"Political Mobilization under Authoritarian Rule: Explaining Islamic Activism
in Mubarak's Egypt." Author of "Islamic Mobilization and Political
Change: The Islamic Trend in Egypt's Professional Associations" in Political
Islam; and "Political Innovation in Egypt Today" in Qira'aat Siyasiyya.
* Also on the faculty of the Graduate Division of Religion
Affiliated Faculty
David Blumenthal (Religion; Medieval Jewish and Islamic Studies)
Hikmat Faraj (University Libraries; Middle Eastern Bibliographer;
ME social and political history)
Rosemary Gay Robins (Art History; Ancient Egyptian Art)
For further information, please contact:
Richard C. Martin
Department of Religion
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
404/727-7544
rcmartin@emory.edu
CDEISI
The Carolina
Duke Emory
Institute for
the Study of
Islam
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