The Council on Middle East Studies Program in Iranian Studies presents a book talk.
Tehseen Thaver, Princeton University:
“Beyond Sectarianism: Ambiguity, Hermeneutics, and Formations of Religious Identity in Early Islam.”
Tehseen Thaver is Assistant Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Her research focuses on multiple forms of Muslims’ engagement with scripture – pre-modern and modern, oral and textual, interpretive and performative. She is the author of the book Beyond Sectarianism: Ambiguity, Hermeneutics, and the Formations of Religious Identity in Islam published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2024. She has also published various articles in journals such as Journal of Qur’anic Studies, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Studies, and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.