Asma Afsaruddin

Associate Professor
Department of Classics

Degrees

B.A., Oberlin College; M.A. and Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Research Profile

Asma Afsaruddin is associate professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Classics department. Her fields of specialization are the religious and political thought of Islam, Qur'an and hadith studies, Islamic intellectual history, and gender. She previously taught at Harvard University and has been a visiting scholar at the Centre for Islamic Studies, University of London. Among her publications are Excellence and Precedence: Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2002) and the edited volume Hermeneutics and Honor: Negotiation of Female "Public" Space in Islamic/ate Societies (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University, 1999). Afsaruddin has also written over fifty articles, book chapters and reviews and lectures widely in the US and abroad on Islam and Islamic thought. Her current research on jihad and martyrdom has won support from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation and from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which named her a Carnegie Scholar for 2005.

Contact Information

341 Decio Faculty Hall
631-8677
afsaruddin.1@nd.edu