Participating Faculty
- Jon W. Anderson, Ordinary Professor of Anthropology
Social Anthropology; politics and religion in the Middle East; Islam in the Modern World; new media and information technology in the Muslim world
Director and minor advisor - Sidney H, Griffith, S.T., Ordinary Professor of Semitics
Arabic Christianity; Syriac monasticism; medieval Christian-Muslim encounters; ecumenical and interfaith dialogue - Therese-Anne Druart, Ordinary Professor of Philosophy
Medieval Arabic philosophy, metaphysics and theology; Ibn Sina (Avicenna) - Wilhelmus Valkenberg, Ordinary Professor of Theology & Religious Studies Christian-Muslim Dialog; "People of the Book;" tafsir, kalam, tasawwuf
- Kemaleddin Tabine, Instructor
Modern Standard Arabic - Shawqi Talia, Instructor
Classical Arabic, translation, Arabic literature - Alexs Thompson, Lecturer in History and PhD candidate at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, where he is completing a dissertation on the Muslim historiography of early Islam, will teach HIST 309 - The Rise of Islam, Spring 2013
- Julia Lau Bertrand, Lecturer in Politics and PhD candidate at Georgetown, MA Security Studies Georgetown and LLB & LLM National University of Singapore, will teach
POLI 327 - Nationalism & Islam: Post-Colonial Movements, Spring 2013
- Feriha Perekli, Lecturer in Politics and PhD candidate at Indiana University, MA International Relations Galatasaray University, will teach
POLI 326 - Modern Politics of the Middle East, Fall 2012
Last reviewed: July 13, 2012
