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• Qur'an Group

Contemporary Islam Group

The mission of the Contemporary Islam Group is to provide a venue for discussing emerging problems and developments within Muslim societies and Islamic Studies during the past two centuries, particularly in the late 20th and early 21st.

Chairs
Anna Bigelow (North Carolina State University)
anna_bigelow@ncsu.edu

Amir Hussain (Loyola Marymount University)
amir.hussain@lmu.edu

Steering Committee
Kambiz GhaneaBassiri (Reed College)
kambiz.ghaneabassiri@reed.edu

Jamillah Karim (Spelman College)
jamillahk@gmail.com

Robert Rozehnal (Lehigh University)
ror2@lehigh.edu

Sa'diyya Shaikh (University of Cape Town)
sshaikh@humanities.uct.ac.za

Danielle Widmann Abraham (Harvard Divinity School)
daniellea@gmail.com

Program Unit Information
Sessions Allotted: 2
Next Review: 2013

2009 Call for Papers
This Group invites submissions on all subjects relating to Islam in the contemporary world. We are particularly interested in papers relevant to the following topics: theologies of religious pluralism; Islam and ecology; Islam in Southeast Asia; the work and influence of Wilfred Cantwell Smith in the context of AAR’s centennial anniversary focus on past presidents; the scholarship of Tariq Ramadan and Talal Asad pertaining to modernity and secularism; Islam in the Francophone world; methodological approaches to and/or new trajectories in Islamic Studies; insider-outsider issues in the study of Islam; religious personhood and morality in Islam; and Muslim masculinities.