Islamic Scholarly Tradition

Asad Q. Ahmed, Ph.D., Princeton (2007), is Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He has published on early Islamic social history and Islamic intellectual history, including the forthcoming The Religious Elite of the Early Islamic Ḥijāz (P&G, University of Oxford, 2010) and The Deliverance: Logic (Oxford University Press, 2011). His awards include fellowships and grants from the National Humanities Center, the NEH, the Stanford Humanities Center, the Mellon Sawyer Seminars, and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.Behnam Sadeghi, Ph.D., Princeton (2006), is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of "The Chronology of the Qur’ān: A Stylometric Research Program" (Arabica); "The Traveling Tradition Test: A Method for Dating Muslim Traditions" (Der Islam, 85/1 (2010): 203-242); "The Codex of a Companion and the Qur’ān of the Prophet" (Arabica, 57/4-5 (2010)); "The Authenticity of Two 2nd/8th-Century Legal Texts: the Kitāb al-Āthār and al-Muwaṭṭa’ of Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Shaybānī" (Islamic Law and Society, 17/3 (November 2010)); and Women and Prayer in the Islamic Legal Tradition: The Logic of Law Making (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).Michael Bonner, Ph.D., Princeton (1987), is Professor of Medieval Islamic History in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. His recent publications include Jihad in Islamic History: Doctrines and Practices (Princeton University Press, 2006), and Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts, co-edited with Amy Singer and Mine Ener (SUNY Press, 2003). He was Director of the University of Michigan Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies in 1997-2000 and 2001-2003, and Acting Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Studies in 2007-08.

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