Samuel Ross (2018) with his dissertation on “The Biblical Turn in Modern Qur’an Commentary.” He teaches as an Texas Christian University at the Texas Christian University.
Yousef Casewit (2014) with his dissertation on “The Forgotten Mystic: Ibn Barrajan (d. 536/1141) and the Andalusian Mu tabirum.” He teaches as an Assistant Professor of Qur’anic Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
Hussein Abdulsater (2013) with his dissertation on “The Climax of Speculative Theology in Buyid Shi’ism: The Contribution of Al-Sharif Al-Murtada.” He teaches as an Assistant Professor, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Yasir Kazi (2013) with his dissertation on”Reconciling Reason and Revelation in the Writings of Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328): An Analytical Study of Ibn Taymiyya’s Dar’ al-ta’arud.” He teaches as an Assistant Professor of Relgious Studies at Rhodes College.
Mushegh Asatryan (2012) with his dissertation on “Heresy and Rationalism in Early Islam: The Origins and Evolution of the Mufaddal Tradition.” He teaches as an Assistant Professor of Arabic and Muslim Cultures with the University of Calgary at The Institute of Ismaili Studies.
Matthew Melvin-Koushki (2012) with his dissertation on”The Quest for a Universal Science: The Occult Philosophy of Sa’in al-Din Turka Isfahani (1369-1432) and Intellectual Millenarianism in Early Talmud Iran.” He teaches as an Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina.
Kazuyo Murata (2012) with her dissertation on “God is Beautiful and He Loves Beauty: Ruzbihan Baqli’s Sufi Metaphysics of Beauty.” She teaches as a Lecturer at King’s College of London.
Matthew Ingalls (2011) with his dissertation on “Subtle Innovation within Networks of Convention: The Life, Thought, and Intellectual Legacy of Zakariyya al-Ansri.” He teaches as an Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the American University in Dubai.
Mahan Mirza (2010) with his dissertation on “The Quest for Knowledge: Biruni’s Method of Inquiry.” He teaches as Professor of the Practice at the University of Notre Dame.
Sayeed Rahman (2009) with his dissertation on “The Legal Thought and Theology of Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani (922-96 ce).”
Homayra Ziad (2008) with her dissertation on “Quest of the Nightingale: The Religious Thought of Khvajah Mir Dard (1720-1785).” She teaches as an Assistant Professor at Trinity College.
Tariq Jaffer (2005) with his dissertation on “The Doctrine of the Soul in Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s Qur’an Commentary.” He teaches as an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon.
Nada Saab (2004) with her dissertation on “Mystical Language and Theory in Sufi Writings of al-Kharraz.” She teaches as Professor at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon and is the Director of the Arabic Studies Program.
Amina Steinfels (2003) with her dissertation on “The Travels and Teachings of Sayyid Jalal al-din Husayn Bukhari (1308-1384).” After teaching as Assistant Professor at Gettysburg College, PA, she is now teaching as Assistant Professor at Mount Holyoke College, MA.
Joseph Lumbard (2003) with his dissertation on “Ahmad al-Ghazali (d. 517/1123 or 520-1126) and the Metaphysics of Love.” After serving as an advisor to His Majesty King Abdallah II of Jordan, he now teaches as Assistant Professor at Brandeis University.
Gabriel Said Reynolds (2003) with his dissertation on “A Muslim Theologian in the Sectarian Milieu: ‘Abd al-Jabbar (d. 415/1025) and the ‘Critique of Christian Origins.’” He teaches as Assistant Professor at University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN. A revised version of his dissertation is published: “’Abd al-Jabbar’s Critique of Christian Origins,” Leiden: Brill Publishers 2005.
Walid Saleh (2001) with his dissertation on “The Qur’an Commentary of al-Tha’labi (d. 427/1035)”. After teaching as Assistant Professor at Middlebury College, Vermont, he is now teaching as Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Toronto, Canada. A revised version of his dissertation is published : “The Formation of the Classical Tafsir tradition,” Leiden: Brill 2004.
Shahzad Bashir (1997) with his dissertation “Between Mysticism and Messianism: The Life and Thought of Muhammad Nurbakhsh (d. 1464)”. After teaching as Assistant Professor at Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA and as Associate Professor at Carleton College, Minnesota, he is now Full Professor at Stanford University, directing the newly established Abbasi program. A revised version of his dissertation is published: “Messianic Hopes and Mystical Visions”, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press 2003.
Jonathan E. Brockopp (1995) with his dissertation on “Slavery in Islamic Law: An Examination on Early Maliki Jurisprudence”. After teaching as Assistant Professor at Bard College, he now teaches as Associate Professor at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. A revised version of his dissertation is published: “Early Maliki Law. Ibn ‘Abd al-Hakam and his Major Compendium of Jurisprudence”, Leiden: Brill 2000.
Gerald T. Elmore (1995) with his dissertation on “The Fabulous Gryphon on the Seal of Saints and the Sun Rising in the West: An Early Maghribine Work by Ibn al-Arabi” A revised version of the thesis is published: “Islamic Sainthood in the Fullness of Time. Ibn al-Arab’s Book of the Fabulous Gryphon”, Leiden: Brill 1999.
Jamal J. Elias (1991) with his dissertation on “Sufi Thought and Practice in the Teaching of ‘Ala’ ad-Dawla as-Simnani”. A revised version of his thesis is published: “The Throne Carrier of God. The Life and Thought of ‘Ala’ ad-Dawla as-Simnani”, Albany: SUNY 1995. Jamal is the chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.