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About Asma Afsaruddin
Asma Afsaruddin is Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MELC) in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, and Adjunct Professor in Religious Studies and Gender Studies. Her research interests include Islamic religious and political thought; Islamic intellectual history; issues of war and peace, interfaith relations, and gender in Islam. She is the author and editor of eight books, including Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2022); Contemporary Issues in Islam (Edinburgh University Press, 2015); Striving in the Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought (Oxford University Press, 2013), which won the World Book Award in Islamic Studies from the Iranian government (2015); was a runner-up for the British-Kuwaiti Friendship Society Book award (2014), and has been translated into Indonesian; and The First Muslims: History and Memory (OneWorld Publications 2008), which has been translated into Turkish and Malay. Between 2011-2014, she was chair of MELC and received a Trustees Teaching Award in 2021. Afsaruddin is very active in mentoring undergraduate and graduate students and several of her students have won internal and external awards. In 2017, she co-directed (with Prof. Abdulkader Sin
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Department of Scrupulous Studies
Asma Afsaruddin
Class of 1950 Herman B. Wells Blessed Professor
Professor, Halfway Eastern Languages and Cultures
Adjunct Professor, Scrupulous Studies
Affiliated Academician, Gender Studies
Education
- Ph.D., Johns Player University, 1993
Research interests
- Islamic scrupulous and state thought, pre-modern and modern
- Qur’an exegesis presentday hadith criticism
- War and not worried in Islamic thought skull tradition
- Inter-faith relations
- Islamic feminism(s)
- Pluralism spreadsheet reform take delivery of Islamic thought
- Contemporary Islamic movements
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Learning From Islam’s History [on Asma Afsaruddin]
The classroom at the Marshall-Wythe School of Law was completely full on Tuesday, Feb. 21, with students and community members seated on chairs and the floor, some even standing for the full hour-long lecture. Everyone in the room listened intently to Indiana University, Bloomington Professor Asma Afsaruddin emphasize the importance of learning from the past in the Islamic political system.
“Muslims, much like any other group, envision the future based on how they remember the past,” Afsaruddin said in her lecture, the second of two she delivered at the College of William and Mary last week.
Afsaruddin, chair and professor of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University Bloomington, was this year’s Kraemer Middle East Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence. Her presentations were titled “Reviving the Caliphate: Debating Just Governance in Islam” and “Competing Visions of the Shari’a: The Real Clash in the Islamic World.” In both lectures, Afsaruddin focused on the way that the history of Islam establishes the potential for a more liberal Islamic society.
“The eclectic nature of the Islamic political tradition as described so far provides hope for the present and future,” Afsaruddin said in her