Jane Idleman Smith

Jane Idleman Smith is an American scholar of Islam and former professor of Comparative Religion at Harvard University.[1] She is currently Professor Emerita of Islamic studies at Hartford Seminary.[2]

Jane Idleman Smith
Born
Jane Idleman Smith
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma materHartford Seminary, Harvard University
Academic work
InstitutionsHartford Seminary
Notable works
  • Muslims, Christians, and the Challenge of Interfaith Dialogue
  • Mission to America: Five Islamic Sectarian Communities in North America

Biography

Smith received Bachelor of Divinity degree from Hartford Seminary and her Phd from Harvard Divinity School.[3] She has served as Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations and co-director of the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary and professor of Comparative Religion at Harvard University. She also served as co-editor of The Muslim World journal.[4]

Works

  • Islam in America[5]
  • Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today[6]
  • The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection
  • Mission to America: Five Islamic Sectarian Communities in North America [7]
  • Muslims, Christians, and the Challenge of Interfaith Dialogue[8]
  • Islam and the West Post 9/11[9]
  • An Historical and Semantic Study of the Term "islām" as Seen in a Sequence of Qurʼān Commentaries

See also

References