Welcoming New IQSA Lifetime Member: Juan Cole
It is with great honor that the International Qur’anic Studies Association welcomes a new lifetime member: Professor Juan Cole.
Juan R. I. Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan and the director of the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program in the American Culture Department. He is past president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America. His first book was Roots of North Indian Shi`ism in Iran and Iraq: Religion and State in Awadh, 1722-1859 (Berkeley, 1988). In a long career he went on to write on Egypt, Iran, other regions of the Middle East. His recent books include Peace Movements in Islam (edited) (London, 2021), The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation from the Persian (London, 2020), and Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires (New York, 2018).
Please join us in welcoming IQSA’s newest lifetime member! Read about membership tiers and benefits at this link.
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Farid Esack is a South African scholar of Islam and public intellectual who completed the Darsi Nizami in traditional madrasahs in Karachi, Pakistan, and his PhD at the University of Birmingham, UK. Since 2000, Esack has been teaching at the University of Johannesburg (UJ), where he is Professor in the Study of Islam and head of its Department of Religion Studies. In addition to serving as a Commissioner for Gender Equality in the first South African democratic government (appointed by President Mandela) and heading a number of leading national and international not-for-profit entities, he has taught religion, Islamic Studies, and Qurʾanic Studies in South Africa (University of Western Cape, Cape Town and UJ), Europe (Universities of Amsterdam and Hamburg), the United States (College of William and Mary, Union Theological Seminary,Xavier University, and Harvard Divinity School) and in Asia (International Islamic University of Islamabad and Gaja Mada University in Yogjakarta).
Ghazala Anwar (PhD Comparative Religion,Philadelphia) is a Pakistani American scholar of Islamic Studies. She is currently Associate Professor of Quranic Studies at Starr King School for the Ministry. Her focus has been on feminist/queer inclusive and animal inclusive contemporary readings of the Qurʾaninformed both by modernist and traditional as well as contemporary Western approaches of reading theQurʾan and Sufi intentionality. She is now turning her attention from interpretation of the text to the history of its formation as this new field emerges.