Asma afsaruddin biography of mahatma
Asma afsaruddin biography of mahatma
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Asma Afsaruddin
American scholar of Islamic studies
Asma Afsaruddin (born 1958) is an American scholar of Islamic studies[1][2] and Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University in Bloomington.[3]
Biography
She was an associate professor in Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.[4] She has previously taught at Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University, from which she received her PhD in 1993.[5] 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.[5]
Afsaruddin has been an editorial board member for the Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, published by Cambridge University Press.
She was an editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Medieval Islamic Civilization and a consultant for The Oxford Dictionary of Islam (2002).&