Asma Afsaruddin
Author
1958 –
Who is Asma Afsaruddin?
Asma Afsaruddin is a Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University in Bloomington. She was an associate professor in Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. She has previously taught at Harvard University and the Johns Hopkins University, from which she received her PhD in 1993. Her fields of specialization include the religious and political thought of Islam, study of the primary Islamic texts, as well as gender studies.
Afsaruddin is an editorial board member for the Bulletin of the Middle east Middle East Studies Association, published by Cambridge University Press. She was an editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Medieval Islamic Civilization and a consultant for the Oxford Dictionary of Islam.
Asfaruddin chairs the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy board of directors. She also sits on advisory committees for the Muslim World Initiative of the United States Institute of Peace and the human rights organization Karamah.
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- Born
- 1958
- Education
- Johns Hopkins University
- Employment
- University of Notre Dame
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on July 23, 2013
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