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Suleiman MOURAD

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Suleiman MOURAD

Director

Pays : USA

A specialist on the history of Islam and the Middle East, he received his PhD from Yale University, and holds an M.A. from the American University of Beirut. His scholarship focuses on the Muslims as makers and interpreters of their own religious, historical and legal traditions. As such, his major contribution to modern knowledge about Islam and Islamic history is that he demonstrated the active agency of Muslims in fashioning different forms of Islam from the seventh century until today. Since 2005, he has been teaching at Smith College, where he was the inaugural faculty director of the Global Studies Center. Since 2018, he is member associé at the Institut d’Études Avancées de Nantes. He is a former fellow of the National Endowment of the Humanities (2007-2008), IEA de Nantes (2012-2013), and the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (2013-2014). Aside from that, he received several awards, including most recently a research grant from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung and the American Philosophical Society. He has appeared on a number of film documentaries in the US and Europe as a specialist on Jerusalem, Jesus in Islam, and Muslim-Crusader relations. He is former president of the Middle East Medievalists, and board member of several academic and public organizations.

His books include La Mosaïque de l’Islam. Entretien sur le Coran et le djihadisme avec Perry Anderson, Coll. Poids et mesures du monde. Paris: Fayard, 2016 (The Mosaic of Islam, Verso, 2016), and The Routledge Handbook on Jerusalem (coedited with Naomi Koltun-Fromm & Bedross Der Matossian), London, Routledge, 2019. He is also an occasional op-ed writer on historical and current issues, and his pieces appeared most recently in the BBC History Magazine (UK), Orient XXI (France), and 180° (Lebanon), among others.