Asma Afsaruddin
Associate Professor of Classics
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Asma.Afsaruddin.1@nd.edu

Areas of Recent Teaching
· Islam and Islamic civilization
· Arabic language and literature

Areas of Recent Research
· Religious and political thought of Islam
· Qur'an and hadith studies
· Islamic intellectual history
· Gender

Recent Honors and Awards
· Carnegie Scholar for 2005
· Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Grant, 2003-04.
· Editorial Board of Oxford Encyclopedia of Modern Islam
· Editorial Board of Bulletin of the Middle East Studies Association
· Chair, Board of Directors for the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy

Recent Publications
· "The Excellence of the Qur'an: Textual Sacrality and the Organization of Early Islamic Society," Journal of the American Oriental Society 122: 1 (2002): 1-24.
· Excellence and Precedence: Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership (Leiden, 2002)
· Editor, Hermeneutics and Honor. Negotiating Female "Public" Space in Islamic/ate Societies (Cambridge, Mass, 1999)
· "In Praise of the Caliphs: Re-Constructing History from the Manaqib Literature," International Journal of Middle East Studies 31 (1999): 329-50

Departmental Page
http://classics.nd.edu/faculty/profiles/asma-afsaruddin/