Expertise

Research Interests: pre-modern and modern Islamic religious and political thought; Quranic hermeneutics; hadith criticism; exegetical, legal, and ethical perspectives on jihad and martyrdom; Muslim attitudes towards the People of the Book; Islam and religious pluralism; gender roles

Research Interests:  pre-modern and modern Islamic religious and political thought; Quranic hermeneutics; Hadith criticism; exegetical, legal, and ethical perspectives on jihad and martyrdom; gender roles

Areas: Quranic studies; hadith studies; intersection of religious and political thought; perspectives on jihad and martyrdom; Islam and religious pluralism.

Research areas: Pre-modern and modern Islamic religious and political thought; Quranic hermeneutics; Hadith criticism; Exegetical, legal, and ethical perspectives on jihad and martyrdom; Gender roles.

Past Affiliations

Associate Professor, Department of Classics, The Humanities, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame (past)

Associate Professor, Medieval Institute, Department of History, The Humanities, College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame (past)

Chair, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Affiliate Faculty, Islamic Studies Program, Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Communities
European Studies, Language Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Gender Studies
Degrees
PhD, Johns Hopkins University, Near Eastern Studies, 1993
Keywords
arabic language or literature islamic studies middle eastern studies gender issues