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Rahimjon Abdugafurov
Educational Background:
2020 PhD in Islamic Civilizations Studies
Emory University
Dissertation Title -
"This Human Truth, Seek It Within Yourself:
The Islamic Humanism of 'Abd al-Karim al-Jili
(767-832/1365-1428)"
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:
2021 PhD in Islamic Civilizations Studies
Emory University
Dissertation Title -
"Public Selves, Private Selves, Mirrored Selves:
Muslim Central Asian Women's Approaches to Life Writing"
2014 MA in Education
University of Wyoming
2002 BA Equivalent in Uzbek Philology
Namangan State University
Research Interests:
Central Asian intellectual history; Sufism; gender studies,
particularly women's literature and life writing, education,
upbringing and ethics
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Hamilton Parker Cook
Educational Background:
2019 PhD in Islamic Civilizations Studies
Emory University
Dissertation Title -
"A Muslim Humanist of the Ottoman Empire:
Ismail Hakki Bursevi and His Doctrine of the Perfect Man"
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:
2021 PhD in Islamic Civilizations Studies
Emory University
Dissertation Title -
"Ideals and Realities of Environmentalism in the Islamic World:
The Case of Saudi Arabia"
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:
2021 PhD in Islamic Civilizations Studies
Emory University
Dissertation Title -
"Ja'far al-Khuldi (d.348/959) and the Early Sufi Textual Tradition:
Text-Critical and Computational Approaches"
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 Mirza
Educational Background:
2023 PhD in Islamic Civilizations Studies
Emory University
Dissertation Title -
"Matters of the Heart, Expressions of the Body:
Music, Trancing and Embodied Pedagogy at
Sufi Music-Listening Rituals in South Asia"
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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Faiza Rahman
Educational Background:
2024 PhD in Islamic Civilizations Studies
Emory University
Dissertation Title -
"Islamic Period: Menstruation and Muslims in Pakistan"
2017 MA in History
National University in Singapore
2012 BSc in Political Science
Lahore University of Management Sciences
Research Interests:
Subaltern studies; gender and sexuality studies; Islamic
daily life in contemporary Pakistan; Islam in South Asia;
ethno-historical approaches
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Michael Samuel
Educational Background:
2024 PhD in Islamic Civilizations Studies
Emory University
Dissertation Title -
"State of Emergency: Law, Violence, and the Establishment
of Israel, 1948-1966"
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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Yusuf Unal
Educational Background:
2023 PhD in Islamic Civilizations Studies
Emory University
Dissertation Title -
"The Safavid Revolution: Conversion, Violence, and Political
Encounters in the Early Modern Middle East"
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:
2023 PhD in Islamic Civilizations Studies
Emory University
Dissertation Title -
"Hermeticism and the Treatises of the Brethren of Purity"
(Ikhwan al-Safa')"
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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