Marcia Hermansen, Ph.D.
| Marcia Hermansen, Ph.D. | ||
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Title: | Professor , Director Islamic World Studies, Director of Minors for Theology & Religious Studies |
| Office: | Crown Center 441 | |
| Phone: | 773.508.2345 | |
| E-mail: | mherman@luc.edu | |
Personal Information
Specialty: Islamic Studies
Recent Publications:
"Islamic Concepts of Vocation" in Revisiting the Idea of Vocation ed. John Haughey, Catholic University of America Press, 2004, 77-96.
"What's American about American Sufi Movements?" in Sufism in Europe and North America ed. David Westerlund, Routledge, 2004, 36-62.
"Islamic Religious Healing in Chicago: Intersections of South Asian Sufi, American, and Islamic Models" for "Religious Healing in America" ed. Susan Sered and Linda L. Barnes, Oxford, 2004.
"The Evolution of American Muslim responses to 9/11" in Ron Geaves (ed). Religious Responses to 9/11 Ashgate, 2004, 77-96.
"The 'other' Shadhilis of the West" in The Shadhiliyya, ed. Eric Geoffroy, Paris: Maisonneuve et Larose ,2005, 481-499.
"Keeping the Faith: Convert Muslim Mothers in America and the Transmission of Islamic Identity" in Women Embracing Islam. Gender and Conversion in the West, University of Texas Press, 2006 , ed. Karin van Nieuwkerk (ed.) 250-276.
"Identity Jihads: The Multiple Strivings of American Muslim Youth" in "Religious Perspectives on Spirituality in Childhood and Adolescence", Aostre Johnson and Gene Roehlkepartain (eds.) Rowman & Littlefield, 2006, 423-436.
"Western Sufis and Sufi Literatures in the West" in Sufism in the West ed. John Hinnells and J. Malik Routledge, 2006, 28-48.
Dr. Marcia Hermansen is a Professor of Theology at Loyola University Chicago where she teaches courses in Islamic Studies and World Religions. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Arabic and Islamic Studies. In the course of her research and language training she live for extended periods in Egypt, Jordan, India, Iran, Turkey and Pakistan. She conducts research in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu as well as the major European languages. Her book, The Conclusive Argument from God, a study and translation from the Arabic of Shah Wali Allah of Delhi's, Hujjat Allah al-Baligha, was published in 1996. Dr. Hermansen has also contributed numerous academic articles in the fields of Islamic thought, Islam and Muslims in South Asia, Muslims in America and Women in Islam.