Faculty Guide

Title

Assistant Professor of Classical Islam

Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

Expertise

Assistant Professor of Classical Islam

Courses Taught

IMES	104a	Islam: Civilization and Institutions
NEJS	186a	Introduction to the Qur'an
NEJS	186b	The Quran: Composition, Collection, and Commentary
NEJS	190b	Islamic Philosophy
NEJS	194b	Sufi Teachings
USEM	42a	Sufism: Islamic Mysticism

Scholarship

Lumbard, Joseph E. B.. "Obstacles Faced in the Translation of the Quran." The HarperCollins Study Quran. First ed. Ed. Seyyed Hossein Nasr. San Francisco: Harper One, 2011 (forthcoming)

Lumbard, Joseph E. B.. "Sacred History and the Quranic View of Other Religions." The HarperCollins Study Quran. vol. 1st Ed. Seyyed Hossein Nasr. San Francisco: Harper One, 2011 (forthcoming)

Lumbard, Joseph E. B., ed.. Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition: Essays by Western Muslim Scholars. Second ed. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom Books, 2009. (forthcoming)

Lumbard, Joseph E. B.. "The Uncommonality of A Common Word." Crown Papers (2009). (forthcoming)

Lumbard, Joseph E. B.. "Towards an Islamic Understanding of Incarnation." Criteria of Discernment in Interreligious Dialogue. Ed. Catherine Cornille. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2009 (forthcoming)

Lumbard, Joseph E. B.. "The Decline of Knowledge and the Rise of Ideology in the Modern Islamic World." Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition. 2nd ed. Ed. Joseph E. B. Lumbard. Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom, 2009. 39-77.

Lumbard, Joseph E. B.. ""From Hubb to 'Ishq: The Development of Love in Early Sufism"." Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies 18. 2 (2008).

Lumbard, Joseph E. B.. Submission, Faith and Beauty: The Religion of Islam. 1st ed. Hayward, CA and Louisville, KY: Zaytuna Insitute and Fons Vitae, 2008.

Lumbard, Joseph E. B.. "Prophets and Messengers of God." Voices of Islam. 1st ed. vol. 1 Ed. Vincent J. Cornell. Greenwhich, CT: Praeger, 2007