Suleiman Ali Mourad

Suleiman Ali Mourad is a Lebanese religious studies scholar. ^[1] He is Myra M. Sampson Professor of Religion and Middle East Studies and the chair of Department of Religion at Smith College. ^[2] His work explores Islamic history, religious thought, Jerusalem, Jihad ideology, and how modernity has transformed Muslims' views on their history, legal traditions, and intellectual heritage. ^[3]

In 2025, he was awarded a Senior Fellowship of the Zukunftskollegs at the University of Konstanz. ^[4]

Works

As author

• Ibn Asakir of Damascus: Champion of Sunni Islam at the Time of the Crusades (Oneworld, 2021)
• The Mosaic of Islam: A Conversation with Perry Anderson (Verso, 2016)
• The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period (2015) with James Lindsay
• Early Islam Between Myth and History: Al-Hasan al-Basri (d. 110H/728CE) and the Formation of His Legacy in Classical Islamic Scholarship (2006)

As editor

• Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology (2021) with James E. Lindsay
• Routledge Handbook on Jerusalem (Routledge, 2019) with Naomi Koltun-Fromm and Bedross Der Matossian
• In the House of Understanding: Histories in Memory of Kamal Salibi (2017) with Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn and Tarif Khalidi
• Jerusalem: Idea and Reality (2008) with Tamar Mayer

References

1. "Zu Gast: Suleiman Ali Mourad". Freie Universität Berlin (in German). 2024-09-24. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
2. "Suleiman Ali Mourad". Home. 2024-09-05. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
3. "Suleiman Mourad". AUB. 2024-09-24. Retrieved 2024-09-24.
4. https://www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskolleg/community/senior-fellows/