Asma Afsaruddin

Asma Afsaruddin (born 1958) is an American scholar of Islamic studies and professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures — now Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures — at Indiana University Bloomington. ^{1 2}

She received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1993. She previously taught at Harvard University and at Johns Hopkins, and was associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Notre Dame before moving to Indiana. Her specialisations are the religious and political thought of Islam, the primary Islamic texts (Qur'an and hadith), and gender studies. She has served on the editorial board of the Bulletin of the Middle East Studies Association, edited for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Medieval Islamic Civilization, consulted for The Oxford Dictionary of Islam (2002), chaired the board of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, and was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2005. ¹

Her books include Excellence and Precedence, The First Muslims: History and Memory (2008), Striving in the Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought (2013), Contemporary Issues in Islam (2015) and Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know (2022). In 2015 President Hassan Rouhani of Iran presented her with the Jayezeh Jahani (World Book Prize) for Striving in the Path of God; the book was also runner-up for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in 2014. ¹

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