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.
CIS, HBKU
2018 – PresentDepartment of Arabic and Translation Studies, American University of Sharjah
2015 – 2018Classical Islam, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2006 – 2015The Royal Hashemite Court of Jordan
2005 – 2006American University of Cairo
2004 – 2005American University of Cairo
2003 – 2005Yale University
2003Yale University
2001George Washington University
1995George Washington University
1993University of California Press.
2021Albany: State University of New York Press.
2016Editor-in-Chief, Seyyed Hossein Nasr. San Francisco: HarperOne.
2015Hayward, CA and Louisville, KY: Zaytuna College and Fons Vitae. [Spanish Translation, La Religión del Islam: Sumisión, Fe & Belleza, 2017.].
2008Bloomington, 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.]
2004In Dakake, M., & Madigan, D. (Eds.), Routledge Companion to the Qur’ān. Routledge.
2020In Ridgeon, L. (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Sufism. Routledge.
2020In Orfali, B. & Elias, J. J. (Eds.), Light upon Light: Essays in Islamic History in Honor of Gerhard Bowering. E. J. Brill.
2019In Nasr, S. H., Dagli, C., Dakake, M., Lumbard, J.E.B., & Rustom, M. (Eds.), The Study Quran, San Francisco: HarperOne, 1765–1784.
2015In Nasr, S. E., Dagli, C., Dakake, M., Lumbard, J.E.B., & Rustom, M. (Eds.), The Study Quran, San Francisco: HarperOne, 1601–1606.
2015In Cobb, J. & Castuera, I. (Eds.). For Our Common Home: Process-Relational Responses to Laudato Si. Anoka, MN: Process Century Press.
2015In Marshall, D. (Ed.), Tradition and Modernity: Muslim and Christian Perspectives. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
2013In El-Ansary, W., & Linnan, D. (Eds.), Muslim and Christian Understanding: Theory and Application of “A Common Word”. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
2010In Cornille, C. (Ed.), Criteria of Discernment in Interreligious Dialogue. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock.
2009In Cornell, V.J. (Ed.), Voices of Islam. Westport, CT: Praeger Publications.
2007The Journal of Quranic Studies, 17(2). 1-23.
2015Revised and updated reprint in A Common Word Between Us and You 5-year Anniversary Edition, 2012, Amman, 11–50.
2009The Oxford Journal Of Islamic Studies, 18(3). 345-385.
2007Iqbal 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.
2005Sophia: A Journal of Traditional Studies, 7(1). 101–103.
2001Transcendent Theosophy: An International Journal for Comparative Philosophy and Mysticism, 1(2). 23-32.
2000The Islamic Quarterly, 38(4). 261-282.
1994In Goetz, S., & Taliaferro, C. (Eds.), Encyclopedia Entry for The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Religion. Wiley and Sons.
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2016Tikkun.
2015Huffington Post.
2015Huffington Post.
2015In 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.
2014In Nasr, S.H., & Aminrazavi, M. (Eds.), An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, vol. 4. London: IB Tauris. 460–475.
2013In Nasr, S.H., & Aminrazavi, M. (Eds.), An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, vol. 4. London: IB Tauris. 375–397.
2013In Nasr, S.H., & Aminrazavi, M. (Eds.), An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, vol. 3. London: IB Tauris. 433–456.
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