Suleiman Ali Mourad
Lebanese religious studies scholar
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Suleiman Ali Mourad is a Lebanese religious studies scholar and a scholar of Quranic studies.[1] He is Myra M. Sampson Professor of Religion and Middle East Studies and the chair of Department of Religion at Smith College.[2] His work explores Islamic history, religious thought, Jerusalem, Jihad ideology, and how modernity has transformed Muslims' views on their history, legal traditions, and intellectual heritage.[3]
In 2025, he was awarded a Senior Fellowship of the Zukunftskollegs at the University of Konstanz.[4]
Works
- As author
- Ibn Asakir of Damascus: Champion of Sunni Islam at the Time of the Crusades (Oneworld, 2021)
- The Mosaic of Islam: A Conversation with Perry Anderson (Verso, 2016)
- The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period (2015) with James Lindsay
- Early Islam Between Myth and History: Al-Hasan al-Basri (d. 110H/728CE) and the Formation of His Legacy in Classical Islamic Scholarship (2006)
- As editor
- Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology (2021) with James E. Lindsay
- Routledge Handbook on Jerusalem (Routledge, 2019) with Naomi Koltun-Fromm and Bedross Der Matossian
- In the House of Understanding: Histories in Memory of Kamal Salibi (2017) with Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn and Tarif Khalidi
- Jerusalem: Idea and Reality (2008) with Tamar Mayer