Asma Afsaruddin

Phone:

(812) 856-7347

Email:

aafsarud@iu.edu

Department:

Core Faculty

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Courses Recently Taught

• Golden Age of Islamic Civilization
• Qur’an Commentaries
• Hadith Sciences
• Islam and Modernity
• War and Peace in the Islamic Tradition
• Islam in the Eyes of the West
• The Middle East in the Western Imagination
• Islamic Feminisms
• Jihad in Islamic Texts

Publication Highlights

Books:

• The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023
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  Authoritative new research by Professor Asma Afsaruddin uncovers deep insights into Islam and women’s agency in Muslim-majority societies: Hamilton Lugar School: Indiana University (iu.edu)
  
• Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022
• Contemporary Issues in Islam. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
• Striving in the Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Winner of the runner-up prize from the British-Kuwaiti Friendship Society (2014); World Book Award in Islamic Studies from the Iranian government (2015).  Translated into Bahasa Indonesian by Irsyad Rafsadie as Tafsir Dekonstruksi Jihad & Syahid.  Jakarta: Mizan Press, 2018
• The First Muslims: History and Memory. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2008. Winner of the Dost Award, Turkkad, Istanbul, 2013. Translated by Deniz Kaynak into Turkish as Ilk Müslümanlar: Tarih ve Bellek. Istanbul: Tuti Kitap, 2014.
• Editor, Islam, the State, and Political Authority: Medieval Issues and Modern Concerns, editor. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
• Excellence and Precedence: Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2002.
• Editor. Hermeneutics and Honor: Negotiating Female Public Space in Islamic Societies. Middle East Monograph series. Cambridge, MA: Center for Middle East Studies, Harvard University, 1999.

Select Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

• “The Study of the Middle East and Islam in the American Academy: An Epilogue.” In Lehrer und Schüler: Festschrift zum 60ten Geburtstag von Sebastian Günther.  Ed. Dorothee Lauer and Jana Newiger. Leiden: Brill, 2024. Pp. 748-768

• “Fighting and Martial Valor in the Pre-Modern Islamic Tradition.” In The Cambridge Companion to Religion and War. Ed. Margo Kitts. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. 76-94

• “Modern Rereadings of the Qur’ān through a Gendered Lens.” In The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women. Ed. Asma Afsaruddin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. Pp. 80-118

• These three articles should be listed in the order indicated above and should be the top three entries now placed above the current first entry that is title "Egalitarianism in Islam.

• “Egalitarianism in Islam.” In The Cambridge History of Socialism.  Marcel van Linden.  Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2022.  Pp. 56-78

• “Looking for the Caliphate in All the Wrong Places: ISIS and Its Reading of Scripture.” In Overcoming Orientalism: Essays in Honor of John L. Esposito.  Tamara Sonn.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.  Pp. 121-148

• “Jihad and the Qur’an: Classical and Modern Interpretations.” In The Oxford Handbook of Qur’anic Studies.  Mohammad Abdel Haleem and Mustafa Shah.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.  Pp. 512-526

• “Women and the Qur’an.” In TheOxford Handbook of Qur’anic Studies. Mohammad Abdel Haleem and Mustafa Shah.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.  Pp. 527-537

• “Jihad, Gender, and Religious Minorities in the Siyar Literature: the Diachronic View,” Studia Islamica 114 (2019): 1-26

• “Martyrdom and Its Contestations in the Formative Period of Islam.” In Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice and Self-Immolation: Religious Perspectives on Suicide. Ed. Margo Kitts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Pp. 85-105 

• “Loyalty and Obedience to the Ruler: Religious Obligation or Practical Necessity.”  The Muslim World. Ed. Armando Salvatore et al. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, 2018. 235-252

• "Shari'a and Fiqh" In the Oxford Handbook of American Islam. Eds. Jane Smith and Yvonne Haddad. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 174-186.

• "Martyrdom in Islam: A Historical Survey." In Terrorism, Martyrdom, and Religion: European Perspectives in Global Context. Eds. Dominic Janes and Alex Houen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. 40-58.

• "Islamic Feminisms: Gender Egalitarianism and Legal Constraints." In Social Difference and Constitutionalism in Pan Asia. Ed. Susan Williams. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. 319-352.

• "Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Remembering Muhammad as Head of State." In The Cambridge Companion to Muhammad, edited by Jonathan Brockopp, 180-98. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

• "The Hermeneutics of Inter-Faith Relations: Retrieving Moderation and Pluralism as Universal Principles in Qur'anic Exegeses." Journal of Religious Ethics (2009): 331-45.

• "Obedience to Political Authority: An Evolutionary Concept." In Islamic Democratic Discourse: Theory, Debates, and Directions. Ed.  Muqtedar Khan. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006.  Pp. 37-60

• "The Islamic State: Genealogy, Facts, and Myths." Journal of Church and State 48 (2006): 153–73.