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Rahimjon Abdugafurov
Educational Background:
2013 MA in International Studies
University of Wyoming
2004 Masters in Education
Vanderbilt University
1998 BA Equivalent in Oriental Philology
Namangan State University
Research Interests:
Muslim views about non-Muslims, specifically Christians and
Jews; Islamic law; Islamic mystical theology; Islamic
humanism; constructive theology; Islamic philosophy
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Donohon Abdugafurova
Educational Background:
2014 MA in Education
University of Wyoming
2002 BA Equivalent in Uzbek Philology
Namangan State University
Research Interests:
Sufi women from Turkistan who lived in late 18th and early
19th centuries; oral traditions of Turkic people and how
women are depicted
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Hamilton Parker Cook
Educational Background:
2013 MA in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
Brandeis University
2012 BA in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Brandeis University
Research Interests:
Sufism; Sufism in the Ottoman Empire; Qur'anic exegesis
in the Ottoman Empire and beyond; Ottoman history;
Orientalism and Orientalist studies; poetry in the Islamic
world
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Norah Elmagraby
Educational Background:
2014 MS in Sustainability Management
Columbia University
2010 BS in Health Sciences
Dar Al-Hekma University
Research Interests:
Environmental sustainability in the MENA region
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Jeremy Farrell
Educational Background:
2012 MA in Arabic Language and Literature
University of California at Los Angeles
2007 BA in History
Tulane University
Research Interests:
Islamic asceticism; literary constructs of asceticism in
classical and medieval Arabic literature; textual studies
and codicology; poetics of ritha'; modern Arabic poetry;
translation
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Isaac Foster
Educational Background:
2012 MA in Music/Ethnomusic
School of Oriental and African Studies
2009 BA in Music/Jazz Studies
University of the Arts
Research Interests:
Role of music and musical practices in Islam; cultural and
religious contestations of authority and authenticity within
Islam; Persian and South Asian sama' rituals
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Michael Samuel
Educational Background:
2015 JD in Law
Boston College Law School
Research Interests:
Legal, social and political history of Mandate Palestine;
the role of law in national and statehood movements;
the relationship between religious and secular law
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Timothy Schum
Educational Background:
2015 MA in Islamic Studies
George Washington University
2013 BA in Philosophy
St. Johns College
Research Interests:
Aesthetics and philosophies of perception of Islamic
thought; mystical attitudes toward physical beauty in
connection with pre-modern religious corporeality in
the Islamic world
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Yusuf Unal
Educational Background:
2016 MA in History
Bogazici University
2012 BA in History and International Relations
TOBB University of Economics and Technology
Research Interests:
Ottoman-Safavid conflict and religio-political atmosphere
and corresponding polemic and apologetic literature in
the 16th century
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Syed Zaidi
Educational Background:
2015 MA in Islamic Studies
George Washington University
2012 BA in International Relations
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Research Interests:
The influence of Middle and Neoplatonic thought upon
early Islamic philosophical thought; Hermeticism, the
works of the Ikhwan al-Safa' and the School of Isfahan
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