Suleiman Ali Mourad

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Suleiman Ali Mourad (* before 1990 in Beirut , Lebanon ) is a religious scholar and specialist book author who deals with Islam and its history. His research focuses on the hermeneutics of the Koran , medieval Islam, Jerusalem and the time of the Crusades . Today he teaches in the United States at Smith College Northampton , Massachusetts . In 2013 he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Free University of Berlin.

Life

Suleiman Ali Mourad was born in Beirut, Lebanon. His family comes from the small village of Benwati in the Jizzin area of ​​southern Lebanon. He is married to Rana Knio, with whom he has a son and a daughter.

Mourad studied at the American University of Beirut initially mathematics , in which he in 1990 with the Bachelor of Arts graduate and later history of the Middle East , in which he reached the BA in 1991, the Master of Arts in 1996. In 2004 he received his doctorate in the US at Yale University in Arabic and Islamic Studies .

Teaching and research stays

From 1998 to 1999 Mourad taught in the Faculty of Religious Studies at Yale University , 2000 to 2001 in the Faculty of History at the American University of Beirut, and from 2002 to 2005 in the Faculty of Religion at Middlebury College . Since 2005, Mourad has taught as an assistant professor at Smith College. He then became an associate professor and finally a professor of religion in 2010.

As an Alexander von Humboldt fellow , he conducted research from 2013 to 2014 at the Free University of Berlin in cooperation with the Research Unit Intellectual History of the Islamicate World there , which is headed by Professor Sabine Schmidtke , an Islamic scholar . There he researched Mutazila , a once influential but later perished school of Islam that interpreted the Koran rationalistically, i.e. oriented itself towards human reason.

Works

Books

English

  • Early Islam between Myth and History. Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī (d.110H / 728CE) and the Formation of his Legacy in Classical Islamic Scholarship . Leiden November 15, 2005, Brill Academic Publishers, ISBN 978-9004148291
  • Tamar Mayer, Suleiman Ali Mourad (editors): Jerusalem: idea and reality. , London 2008, Routledge, ISBN 9780415421287
  • Co-author of: The Radicalization of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period . Ashgate 2011
  • Suleiman Mourad, James Lindsay: The Intensification and reorientation of Sunni jihad ideology in the crusader period: Ibn Asakir of Damascus (1105-1176) and his age, with an edition and translation of Ibn Asākir's The forty hadiths for inciting jihad. Brill Academic Publishers 2013, ISBN 9789004230668
  • Suleiman A. Mourad, Paul M. Cobb , Konrad Hirschler (editors): The Muslim World in the Age of the Crusades , Brill Academic Publishers

Arabic

  • Sirat al-Sayyid al-Masih li-Ibn 'Àsākir al-Dimashqi, Amman 1996, Dār al-Shurūq. A study and critical edition of the biography of Jesus by the medieval Damascus scholar Ibn ʿAsākir

Articles (selection)

  • Mary in the Qurʾān: A Reexamination of Her Presentation. in Gabriel S. Reynolds (editor): The Qurʾān in Its Historical Context , London 2008, Routledge, pp. 163–174.
  • The Survival of the Muʿtazila Tradition of Qurʾanic Exegesis in Shīʿī and Sunnī tafāsīr in Journal of Qurʾanic Studies 12, 2010, pp. 83-108.
  • The Revealed Text and the Intended Subtext: Notes on the Hermeneutics of the Qurʾān in Muʿtazila Discourse as Reflected in the Tahdhīb of al-Ḥākim al-Jishumī (d. 494/1101) in Felicitas Opwis, David Reisman (editor): Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion: Studies in Honor of Dimitri Gutas . Leiden 2012, Brill, pp. 367-395.
  • Towards a Reconstruction of the Muʿtazilī Tradition of Qurʾanic Exegesis: Reading the Introduction of the Tahdhīb of al-Ḥākim al-Jishumī (d. 494/1101) and Its Application in Karen Bauer (editor): The Aims, Methods and Contexts of Qurʾanic Exegesis (2nd / 8th - 9th / 15th C. ), Oxford 2013, Oxford University Press in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies (London), pp. 101-137.
  • Jesus in the Qurʾan and Other Early Islamic Texts in James H. Charlesworth, Brian Rhea, Petr Pokorný (editors): Jesus Research: New Methodologies and Perceptions. The Second Princeton-Prague Symposium on Jesus Research, Princeton 2007 . Grand Rapids 2014, Eerdmans, pp. 753-765.

Interviews

  • Suleiman Mourad in dialogue with Perry Anderson: Riddles of the Book. On the history of the Koran and the historical dynamics of Islam. in Lettre International 106, Fall 2014, pp. 118–129, The interview was first published in English by New Left Review in the March / April 2014 issue.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://sophia.smith.edu/~smourad/familyprofile.htm accessed on January 11, 2014 (en)
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on January 11, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.smith.edu
  3. ↑ http://www.fu-berlin.de/presse/publikationen/tsp/2013/ts_20130928/ts_20130928_023/index.html
  4. ↑ http://sophia.smith.edu/~smourad/familyprofile.htm accessed on January 18, 2014
  5. ↑ http://sophia.smith.edu/~smourad/Introduction.htm accessed on January 11, 2014 (en)
  6. ↑ http://www.brill.com/early-islam-between-myth-and-history#BIONOTE_1
  7. ↑ David Benürftig: Guest: Suleiman Ali Mourad from September 26, 2013 on fu-berlin.de ; accessed on January 11, 2014
  8. ↑ http://sophia.smith.edu/~smourad/Introduction.htm
  9. ↑ David Benürftig: Guest: Suleiman Ali Mourad from September 26, 2013 on fu-berlin.de ; accessed on January 11, 2014
  10. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on January 11, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.smith.edu
  11. ↑ http://www.brill.com/publications/muslim-world-age-crusades
personal data
SURNAME Mourad, Suleiman Ali
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lebanese religious scholar and specialist book author
DATE OF BIRTH before 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Beirut , Lebanon