Joseph E. B. Lumbard

Title

Assistant Professor of Classical Islam

History of Ideas
Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

Expertise

Assistant Professor of Classical Islam

Degrees

Yale University, Ph.D.

Yale University, M.Phil.

George Washington University, M.A.

George Washington University, B.A.

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Contact

Email:	lumbard@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-2971
Office:	Lown Center for Judaica Studies, 300a

Awards and Honors

Winner in the category Current Events: Political/Social, The National "Best Books 2010" Awards, Sponsored by USA Book News for "Islam, Fundamentalism, and the Betrayal of Tradition." (2010)

King Hossein Medal for Distinguished Service (2006)

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
NEJS	195a	Muhammad: The History of a Prophet

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, 2014 (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, 2014 (forthcoming)

Lumbard, Joseph E. B. "Seyyed Hossein Nasr on Tradition and Modernity." Tradition and Modernity: Christian and Muslim Perspectives. First ed. Ed. David Marshall. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2013 (forthcoming)

Lumbard, Joseph E. B.. "Review." Rev. of Spiritual Purification in Islam: The life and works of al-Muhasibi, by Gavin Picken. Journal of Shia Islamic Studies vol. 6 2013 (forthcoming)

Lumbard, Joseph E. B.. "Selections from Aḥmad al-Ghazālī’s Sawāniḥ." An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia. First ed. vol. 4 Ed. Seyyed Hossein Nasr with Mehdi Aminrazavi. London: I. B. Tauris, 2013

Lumbard, Joseph E. B.. "Selections from Ibn Turka al-Isfahānī’s Tamhīd al-qawā’id." An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia. First ed. vol. 4 Ed. Seyyed Hossein Nasr with Mehdi Aminrazavi. London: I. B. Tauris, 2013

Lumbard, Joseph E. B. "Some Reflections on Hospitality in Islam." Hosting the Stranger: Between Religions. Ed. Richard Kearney and James Taylor. New York: Continuum, 2011

Lumbard, Joseph E. B. "Selections from Mullā Mahdi Narāqī’s Qurrat al-ʿuyūn." An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia vol. 3. Trans. Joseph Lumbard. (2010): 433–456.

Lumbard, Joseph E. B. "What of the Word is Common?." Muslims and Christians in Dialogue: Theory and Application of a Common Word. Ed. Waleed El-Ansary and David Linnen.. New York: PalgraveMacMillan, 2010. 93–109.

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.

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. "The Uncommonality of A Common Word." Crown Papers 3 (2009): 1-32.

Lumbard, Joseph E. B. "Towards an Islamic Understanding of Incarnation." Criteria of Discernment in Interreligious Dialogue. Ed. Catherine Cornille. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2009. 143-152.

Lumbard, Joseph E. B.. "Selections from Mullā Mahdi Narāqī’s Qurrat al-ʿuyūn." An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia. First ed. vol. 3 Ed. Seyyed Hossein Nasr with Mehdi Aminrazavi. London: I. B. Tauris, 2009. 433–456.

Lumbard, Joseph E. B. ""From Hubb to 'Ishq: The Development of Love in Early Sufism"." Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies 18. 2 (2008): 345-385.

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.

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