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Dr. Joseph Lumbard

Associate Professor of Quranic Studies

Email

jlumbard@hbku.edu.qa

Office location

C.01.031

Dr. Joseph Lumbard

Associate Professor of Quranic Studies

Educational Qualifications

PhD in Islamic Studies

M.Phil in Religious Studies

Entity

College of Islamic Studies

Program

Master of Arts in Contemporary Islamic Studies

Divison

Islamic Studies

Biography

Dr. Joseph Lumbard is Associate Professor of Quranic Studies at CIS. He has previously taught at the American University of Sharjah, Brandeis University, and the American University in Cairo. He also served as Advisor for Interfaith Affairs to the Jordanian Royal Court. He received his PhD in Islamic Studies from Yale University and has studied with scholars in Morocco, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, and Iran. His scholarship contributes to the fields of Islamic philosophical theology, Sufism, and Quranic studies. He served as author, translator, and general editor for The Study Quran (HarperOne 2015), which has been heralded as one of the most important contributions to Islamic studies in the English language. His current research incorporates aspects of Quranic studies, philosophy and theology to focus upon the development of epistemologies in Islam.

 

PhD in Islamic Studies

Yale University

2003

M.Phil in Religious Studies

Yale University

2001

MA in Religious Studies

George Washington University

1995

BA in English Literature and Religious Studies

George Washington University

1993

  • Quranic Studies
  • Islamic Philosophy
  • Sufism
  • Philosophical Theology
  • Islam and the Environment

Associate Professor of Quranic Studies

CIS, HBKU

2018 – Present

Associate Professor

Department of Arabic and Translation Studies, American University of Sharjah

2015 – 2018

Assistant Professor

Classical Islam, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

2006 – 2015

Advisor for Interfaith Affairs

The Royal Hashemite Court of Jordan

2005 – 2006

Arabic Literature Unit Head

American University of Cairo

2004 – 2005

Assistant Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies

American University of Cairo

2003 – 2005

BOOKS
  • University of California Press.
  • Albany: State University of New York Press.
  • Editor-in-Chief, Seyyed Hossein Nasr. San Francisco: HarperOne.
  • Hayward, CA and Louisville, KY: Zaytuna College and Fons Vitae. [Spanish Translation, La Religión del Islam: Sumisión, Fe & Belleza, 2017.].
  • Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom Books, 2004 (Second Edition: 2009). [Arabic Translation: Al-Islām wa’l-uṣūliyya wa khiyānāt al-mawrūth al-Islāmī: abḥāth katabahā bāḥithūn Muslimūn Gharbiyūn, 2007; Casablanca: al-Mamlakah al-Maghribiyya: Manshūrāt Wizārat al-Awqāf wa-al-Shuʾūn al-Islāmiyya. Spanish Translation, El Islam, el fundamentalismo y la traición al Islam tradicional: ensayos de especialistas musulmanes occidentales, 2007, Madrid: José J. de Olañeta.]
BOOK CHAPTERS
  • In Dakake, M., & Madigan, D. (Eds.), Routledge Companion to the Qur’ān. Routledge.
  • In Ridgeon, L. (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Sufism. Routledge.
  • In Orfali, B. & Elias, J. J. (Eds.), Light upon Light: Essays in Islamic History in Honor of Gerhard Bowering. E. J. Brill.
  • In Nasr, S. H., Dagli, C., Dakake, M., Lumbard, J.E.B., & Rustom, M. (Eds.), The Study Quran, San Francisco: HarperOne, 1765–1784.
  • In Nasr, S. E., Dagli, C., Dakake, M., Lumbard, J.E.B., & Rustom, M. (Eds.), The Study Quran, San Francisco: HarperOne, 1601–1606.
  • In Cobb, J. & Castuera, I. (Eds.). For Our Common Home: Process-Relational Responses to Laudato Si. Anoka, MN: Process Century Press.
  • In Marshall, D. (Ed.), Tradition and Modernity: Muslim and Christian Perspectives. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
  • In El-Ansary, W., & Linnan, D. (Eds.), Muslim and Christian Understanding: Theory and Application of “A Common Word”. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • In Cornille, C. (Ed.), Criteria of Discernment in Interreligious Dialogue. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock.
  • In Cornell, V.J. (Ed.), Voices of Islam. Westport, CT: Praeger Publications.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
  • The Journal of Quranic Studies, 17(2). 1-23.
  • Revised and updated reprint in A Common Word Between Us and You 5-year Anniversary Edition, 2012, Amman, 11–50.
  • The Oxford Journal Of Islamic Studies, 18(3). 345-385.
  • Iqbal Review, 46(2). 95–104. Reprinted in Umar, M. S. (Ed.). Towards a Muslim Theology of Other Religions in a Post-Prophetic Age, 2008, Lahore: Iqbal Academy. 151–162.
  • Sophia: A Journal of Traditional Studies, 7(1). 101–103.
  • Transcendent Theosophy: An International Journal for Comparative Philosophy and Mysticism, 1(2). 23-32.
  • The Islamic Quarterly, 38(4). 261-282.
OTHERS
  • In Goetz, S., & Taliaferro, C. (Eds.), Encyclopedia Entry for The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion. Wiley and Sons.
  • Huffington Post.
  • Tikkun.
  • Huffington Post.
  • Huffington Post.
  • In Esposito, J., Dagli, C., & Kalin,I. (Eds.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Philosophy, Science, and Technology, vol. 1. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press. 270–274.
  • In Nasr, S.H., & Aminrazavi, M. (Eds.), An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, vol. 4. London: IB Tauris. 460–475.
  • In Nasr, S.H., & Aminrazavi, M. (Eds.), An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, vol. 4. London: IB Tauris. 375–397.
  • In Nasr, S.H., & Aminrazavi, M. (Eds.), An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, vol. 3. London: IB Tauris. 433–456.