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 […]

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 […]

Marijn van Putten

Chair | Marijn van Putten is assistant professor at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics and the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies. His research focuses on the linguistics, transmission […]

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 […]

Saqib Hussain

Secretary | Saqib Hussain is Assistant Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is the Associate Editor of IQSA’s flagship Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association. His […]

Shawkat Toorawa

Shawkat M. Toorawa is the Brand Blanshard Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations and Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. His scholarly interests include: classical and medieval Arabic […]