Home » People »

Faculty

	Tonio Andrade Ph.D. Yale University, 2001 Professor of History Global history, Ming and Qing China, military history, imperial encounters
	Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im Ph.D. University of Edinburgh, 1976 Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law Islamic law, Islam and human rights, Islam and politics
	Juliette Renee Stapanian Apkarian Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1980 Associate Professor, Russian and East European Studies Program Islam and Muslim-Christian relations in the Caucasus, Women’s Studies
	David R. Blumenthal Ph.D. Columbia University, 1972 Professor Emeritus of Judaic Studies Medieval Judaism, Jewish theology, and links between Jewish and Islamic mysticism
	María Mercedes Carrión Ph.D. Yale University, 1990 Professor of Comparative Literature and Religion Cultural encounters between Muslims, Jews, and Christians in Medieval Spain
	Sam Cherribi Ph.D. University of Amsterdam, 2000 Associate Teaching Professor in Middle Eastern Studies Islam in Europe, Development Studies, European Union Studies
	Rkia Cornell Ph.D. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 2013 Teaching Professor and Language Coordinator in Arabic Arabic pedagogy, Arabic literature, Qur'anic Exegesis, Women in Islam, Sufi saints
	Vincent J. Cornell Ph.D. University of California Los Angeles, 1989 Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies Medieval and modern Islamic theology and philosophy; Islamic mysticism; Islam in North Africa, Middle East, and Southeast Asia, Islam and modernity, Islamic political thought
	Kevin Corrigan Ph.D. Dalhousie University, 1980 Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities Platonic philosophy and mysticism in the Middle East and Mediterranean
	Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984 Professor Emeritus of Religion Hindu and Muslim vernacular religion in India, religion and gender, performance studies
	James B. Hoesterey Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009 Associate Professor of Religion Anthropology of Islam, Islam in Southeast Asia, Media Studies, Islam in popular culture
	Harshita Mruthinti Kamath Ph.D. Emory University, 2012 Visweswara Rao and Sita Koppaka Associate Professor in Telugu Culture, Literature and History Gender and sexuality in South Asia; feminist theory; performance studies; South Indian literature
	Scott Kugle Ph.D. Duke University, 2000 Professor of South Asian and Islamic Studies Sufism in North Africa and South Asia, Islam in North Africa, Contemporary Islam in South Asia, Islam and Sexuality, Arabic and Urdu Islamic literatures
	Ruby Lal D.Phil. Oxford University, 2001 Professor of South Asian Studies Islam and gender in South Asia, Islamic societies of South Asia in the Mughal, colonial, and post-colonial periods, premodern and early modern Muslim societies and cultures, gender and sexuality in Islam
	Roxani Margariti Ph.D. Princeton University, 2002 Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Middle Eastern social and economic history, material culture, urban studies, history of commerce and maritime technology
	Gordon D. Newby Ph.D. Brandeis University, 1966 Professor Emeritus of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies Early Islam, Muslim relations with Jews and Christians, and comparative sacred texts
	Gyanendra Pandey D. Phil. Oxford University, 1975 Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History South Asian and postcolonial history, Muslim-Hindu relations in South Asia
	Elizabeth Carson Pastan Ph.D. Brown University, 1986 Professor of Art History Medieval art and architecture, representations of Jews and Heretics, hagiography, Islam and the West
	Matthew Payne Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1995 Associate Professor of History Russian and Soviet history, modern Central Asian history, history of Kazakhstan and Muslims in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
	Michael Peletz Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1983 Professor of Anthropology Anthropology of Islam, Islamic law, social history and modernity in Southeast Asia
	Craig Perry Ph.D. Emory University, 2014 Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern and Jewish Studies History of the medieval Middle East, Jewish history, history of slavery
	Michael J. Perry J.D. Columbia University, 1973 Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law Constitutional law, constitutional rights, human rights theory, law and religion
	Edward L. Queen Ph.D. University of Chicago Divinity School, 1986 J.D. Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis, 2001 Director of the D. Abbott Turner Program in Ethics and Servant Leadership, Emory University Center for Ethics Religion and social ethics, civil society, Islam and civil society
	Hossein Samei Ph.D. Tehran University, 1997 Associate Teaching Professor and Language Coordinator in Persian Pedagogy, Lexicography, Sociolinguistics, General Linguistics
	Don Seeman Ph.D. Harvard University, 1997 Associate Professor of Religion Anthropology of experience, phenomenology of religion
	Devin Stewart Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 1991 Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Islamic law and legal education, Qur’anic Studies, Shiite Islam, Islamic sectarian relations, Arabic dialectology
	Carrie Rosefsky Wickham Ph.D. Princeton University, 1996 Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Islam and politics, Islamic activism in Egypt and the Arab world
	John Witte Jr. J.D. Harvard University, 1985 Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law Alonzo L. McDonald Distinguished Professor Director, Center for the Study of Law and Religion Philosophy of Law, Law and Ethics, Religion and Democracy, including Islam
	Ofra Yeglin Ph.D. Tel Aviv University, 1998 Associate Professor of Hebrew Language, Literature and Culture Modernist Hebrew poetry, Modernism, Poetics, Holocaust literature, Israeli culture