Islamic Art Prints Biography
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Abdel-Hady has presented and published a number of books and articles in both Arabic and English, among them “Islam & Muslims in Scotland”, “‘Islamophobia’ ...A threat ...A challenge”, “Intellectual characteristics of the human being as mentioned in the Quran”, “Rights and Responsibilities of Wife: Islamic Teachings vs. Culture Practices”, and “Why do Arabs and Muslims fear Globalization?”
Abdel-Hady is the Founder and President of the Arab Association of British Alumni (AABA) and Chair of several multi-faith dialogues in the UK. He was nominated for the “Young Alumnus of the Year Award” in 2006 from the University of Glasgow and was also nominated to become an accepted Member of the International Who's Who Professionals Historical Society in 2006-2007.
Omaima Abou-Bakr is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Qatar University, and a founding member of The Women & Memory Forum, a non-governmental women’s studies and research center based in Cairo. She received her education at Cairo University, North Carolina State University, and the University of California at Berkeley.
Abou-Bakr specializes in medieval Sufi poetry and comparative topics in medieval English and Arabic literature. Her scholarly interests also include women’s mysticism and female spirituality in Christianity and Islam, feminist theology, Muslim women’s history, and gender issues in Islamic cultural history and discourse. She has published a number of articles in both English and Arabic on poetry and other medieval literary texts, as well as gender-sensitive readings of women’s pre-modern historical representation (in Islam) and of developing religious discourses. One of her books published in Arabic—Woman and Gender (2002)—deals with women’s intellectual efforts to create emancipatory and egalitarian discourses within the framework of Islam.
Nasr Abu-Zayd holds the Ibn Rushd (Averroes) Chair of Islam and Humanism at the University of Humanistics in Utrecht. He received his B.A. in Arabic Studies from Cairo University in 1972 and both his M.A. and Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic Studies also from Cairo University.
Abu-Zayd is the recipient of several prestigious awards including The Roosevelt Institute Medal for Freedom of Worship, the Ibn Rushed Prize for Freedom of Thought and most recently, the Prize of Freedom of Thought awarded by the Muslim Democrats Society in Denmark. Abu-Zayd has published fourteen books in Arabic, many of which have been translated into other languages, including Turkish, Bahasa, and Farsi. His publications in English include Voice of an Exile (2004) co-authored with Esther R. Nelson, Rethinking the Qur’an: Towards a Humanistic Hermeneutics (2004) and Reformation of Islamic Thought: A Critical Historical Analysis (2006).
Adnois received his Ph.D. from the University of St Joseph in Beirut in 1973, where he also taught and later served as Professor of Arabic Literature at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Censier-paris III), and Professor of Arab Poetry at the Université de Genève.
Adonis co-founded and co-edited the literary review Shi’r between 1956 and 1964. He was also the founder of the literary review Afâq in 1964, a founding member of the Lebanese Writer’s Union, and the founder of the literary review Mawâqif, for which he served as editor-in-chief until 1995. A prolific writer, Adonis has published numerous volumes of poetry, prose, translations, and critical essays. Among his earlier works are Qasâ’id Ûla [First Poems], (1957); Awrâk Fî l-Rîh [Leaves in the Wind], (1958); and Aghani Mihiar ad-Dimashqi [Songs of Mihyar the Damascene], (1961). The most recent of his poetry publications are Warraaq Yabii` Kutub al-Noujoum and Ihda` Hamlet, Tanachchaq Junoun Ophelia, which were released in 2007.
Mohammed Arkoun is Emeritus Professor at La Sorbonne in Paris as well as Senior Research Fellow and member of the Board of Governors of The Institute of Ismaili Studies in London. He studied at Algiers University and at the Sorbonne in Paris where he taught from 1961 to 1992.
Arkoun has taught as a visiting professor at UCLA, Princeton University, Temple University, the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, the Pontifical Institute of Arabic Studies in Rome, the University of Amsterdam and New York University. He also served as a jury member for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture from 1981 to 1998. Arkoun has acted as editor of ARABICA Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies (Brill, Leiden) and is the author of numerous books in French, English and Arabic, including: Rethinking Islam (1994), The Unthought in Contemporary Islamic Thought (2002; 2d ed. with the title of Islam: to Reform or to Subvert? 2006); De Manhattan à Bagdad. Au-delà du Bien et du Mal (2003); Humanisme et Islam: Combats et Propositions (2006); L’ABC de l’islam and Getting out of Dogmatic Enclosures (2007). His shorter studies have appeared in many academic journals and his works have been translated into several languages.
Walter B. Denny has taught at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst Art History Program since 1970. He has held curatorial positions in Islamic art at the Harvard University Art Museums and the Smith College Museum of Art, and in September of 2002 was named Charles Grant Ellis Research Associate in Oriental Carpets at The Textile Museum, Washington, DC, where he was a Trustee for six years in the 1980s. He is Senior Consultant in the Department of Islamic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he is part of the curatorial team planning the Museum's new Islamic galleries scheduled to open in 2011. His exhibition, with catalogue, of the Ballard collection of Islamic carpets will open at the St. Louis Art Museum in late 2008.
Denny’s books include Gardens of Paradise: Turkish Tiles 15th-17th Centuries (1998), Anatolian Carpets: Masterpieces from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul (1999), and, with two co-authors, Ipek: Ottoman Imperial Silks and Velvets (2001). Iznik: La Céramique Turque et L’art Ottoman (2004) appeared in English and German in 2005.
Peter Gran is Professor of History at Temple University. His research interests are Modern Arab Studies, Comparative Third World History and Political Economy Theory. Gran in the author of Beyond Eurocentrism: A New View of Modern World History (1996); Islamic Roots of Capitalism: Egypt, 1760-1840 (1979), and edits a series for Syracuse University Press entitled “Beyond Dominant Paradigms in Middle East Studies.” In 1990 Gran was guest lecturer at the Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. He was elected president of the research group on “Imperialism and National Liberation Movements” of the International Sociological Association.
Sumaiya Hamdani is Associate Professor at George Mason University and founder and director of the Islamic Studies Program. She completed her B.A. in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, her M.A. at the American University in Cairo, and her Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Princeton University. Hamdani has also taught Middle East, Islamic and Global history at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington (1995-96).
Hamdani has published in the field of medieval Islamic thought and law, and Muslim women’s history. Aside from numerous reviews and articles, she has authored Between Revolution and State: Qadi al-Numan and the Construction of Fatimid Legitimacy (IB Tauris, 2006). She has served as book review editor of Hawwa: the Journal of Middle East and Islamic Women’s Studies, board member of the American Institute of Yemeni Studies (2004-2007) and the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (2006-2007), and a member of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), Middle East Medievalists, and the Association of Middle East Women’s Studies (AMSS). She has received annual grants from the Fulbright Commission, Social Science Research Council, grants from George Mason University, and has served on selection, grant and prize committees for MESA and AMSS.
Hassan Hanafi is Professor of Philosophy as Cairo University. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy in 1966 from la Sorbonne in Paris. Hanafi has acted as Secretary General of the Egyptian Philosophical Society since 1976 and Vice President of the Arab Philosophical Society since 1983.
Hanafi is the author of thirty books in the French, English, and Arabic languages. He is also the author of a project entitled Tradition and Modernism which is based on three sections consisting of the reconstruction of Islamic classical sciences: theology, philosophy, jurisprudence, mysticism and scriptural sciences, the foundation of the Science of Occidentalism to study the West and the theory of reality as hermeneutics.
Nelly Hanna is a Professor of Arabic and Islamic Civilizations at the American University in Cairo. She obtained her Doctorat d'Etat from the University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence in France. Her research has focussed on seventeenth and eighteenth century history. Hanna served as Visiting professor at Harvard University in 2001. She is the author of a number of works that deal with economy, society and culture in Ottoman Egypt. Her books include, Making Big Money in 1600, The Life and Times of Ismail Abu Taqiya, Egyptian Merchant (1998), and In Praise of Books, A Cultural History of Cairo's Middle Class (2003).
Sherman A. Jackson is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Visiting Professor of Law, and Professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Oriental Studies Islamic Near East in 1991. In 1987-89 he served as Executive Director for the Center of Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) in Cairo, Egypt. Jackson is author of Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihâb al-Dîn al-Qarâfî (1996), On the Boundaries of Theological Tolerance in Islam: Abû Hâmid al-Ghazâlî’s Faysal al-Tafriqa (2002) and Islam and the Blackamerican: Looking Towards the Third Resurrection (Oxford).
He is a member of the U.S.-Muslim World Advisory Committee of the U.S. Institute of Peace, a co-founder of the American Learning Institute for Muslims (ALIM), a former member of the Fiqh Council of North America, past president of the Sharî‘ah Scholars’ Association of North America (SSANA) and a past trustee of the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT). He is featured on the Washington Post-Newsweek blog, “On Faith”, and is listed by Religion Newswriters Foundation's Religion Link as among the top ten experts on Islam in America.
Mehran Kamrava is Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar. In addition to a number of journal articles, he is the author of Revolution in Iran: The Roots of Turmoil (1990), The Political History of Modern Iran: From Tribalism to Theocracy (1992), Revolutionary Politics (1992), Politics and Society in the Developing World (1993, 2000), Understanding Comparative Politics: A Framework for Analysis (1996, 2008), Democracy in the Balance: Culture and Society in the Middle East (1998), Cultural Politics in the Third World (1999), The Modern Middle East: A Political History since the First World War (2005), and the forthcoming Iran’s Intellectual Revolution (2008). He has also edited The New Voices of Islam: Rethinking Politics and Modernity (2006) and is the co-editor of the forthcoming two-volume work Iran Today: Life in the Islamic Republic.
Patrick Laude is Professor of French at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. A former fellow of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, he earned a Master’s degree in philosophy from the University of Paris IV Sorbonne with certificates in Islamic and Indian philosophy and a Ph.D. from Indiana University.
Laude's scholarly and personal interests lie in the relationship between poetry and contemplative or mystical traditions, as well as in Western representations and interpretations of Islam and Asian religions. He is currently working on a book on Islamic spirituality in 20th century French thought, and its relevance in the Islamic world.
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