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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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