Board of Directors

Alba Fedeli

Alba Fedeli is a Research Associate at the Asien-Afrika-Institut, Universität Hamburg, working on the transmission of early qurʾanic manuscripts. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham, UK, after […]

Holger Zellentin

Chair | Holger Zellentin is Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies at the University of Tübingen. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University, and has previously held faculty appointments at […]

Johanna Pink

President | Johanna Pink is professor of Islamic Studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany. She taught at Freie Universität Berlin and the University of Tuebingen. Her main fields of interest […]

Johanne Christiansen

Johanne Louise Christiansen, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor at the Department of the Study of Religions, University of Southern Denmark. Her research focuses on the application of theoretical perspectives from other […]

Mohsen Goudarzi

Mohsen Goudarzi joined the faculty of Harvard Divinity School in July 2021, after previously teaching at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. A specialist in Qur’anic Studies, his work is […]

Nevin Reda

Nevin Reda is an Associate Professor of Muslim Studies at Emmanuel College, Victoria University in the University of Toronto. Her research spans Qurʾanic studies, Islamic ethical-legal theory (uṣūl al-fiqh), and […]

Nora Schmid

Nora K. Schmid is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tübingen (SFB 1391). She has studied Arabic and French languages and literatures at Freie Universität Berlin and at the […]

Shari Lowin

Shari L. Lowin is Professor of Islamic and Jewish Studies in the Religious Studies Department of Stonehill College. Her research centers on the interplay between Islamic and Jewish texts in […]

Suleyman Dost

Secretary | Dr. Suleyman Dost is an Assistant Professor of Late Antiquity and Early Islam at the University of Toronto. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in […]