Asma Asfaruddin

Asma Afsaruddin is an associate professor in Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. She has previously taught at Harvard University and the Johns Hopkins University, from where she received her PhD in 1993. Her fields of specialization include the religious and political thought of Islam, study of the primary Islamic texts (Qur'an and hadith), as well as gender studies. According to the Kroc Institute of the University of Notre Dame, "Afsaruddin is currently serving on the editorial boards of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Medieval Islamic Civilization (forthcoming, 2005) and the Bulletin of the Middle East Studies Association, published by Cambridge University Press, and has served as a consultant for the Oxford Dictionary of Islam (2002)"

Publications

*"Excellence and Precedence: Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership" (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2002)
*"Hermaneutics and Honor: Negotiation of Female "Public" Space in Islamic/ate Societies" (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 1999)
*"Culture, and Language in the Near East : Essays in Honor of Georg Krotkoff" (Eisenbrauns: Winona Lake, Ind., 1997)

External links

* [http://kroc.nd.edu/faculty_staff/fellows/afsaruddin.shtml Kroc Institute: Asma Afsaruddin]
* [http://www.nd.edu/~medinst/faculty/bios/afsaruddin.html Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame: Asma Afsaruddin]
* [http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/religion/profile?person=AfsaruddinAsma Religion Compass Online: Asma Afsaruddin]