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ABOUT
Valerie Hoffman is Professor and Head of the Department of Religion at the University of Illinois, specializing in Islamic thought and practice. She received her Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic studies from the University of Chicago and has been on the faculty of the University of Illinois since 1983, where she teaches courses on all aspects of Islam. She has served on the MESA Board of Directors and on the editorial boards of IJMES and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. She is the author of Sufism, Mystics and Saints in Modern Egypt (University of South Carolina Press, 1995) and The Essentials of Ibadi Islam (Syracuse University Press, 2011), as well as numerous articles on Sufism, Islamic gender ideology, the Ibadi sect of Islam, and contemporary Islamic movements. She was a Fulbright research fellow in Egypt (1987-88) and in Oman and Yemen (2000-01) and was a Carnegie scholar in 2009-10. Her current book project is "Islamic Sectarianism Reconsidered: Ibāḍī Islam in the Modern Age."
Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Cultural Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
History Of Religion
Islamic Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Islamic World
Oman
Yemen
Specialties
Ibadi Islam
Muslim Scholars-19th-20th C Oman & Zanzibar
Sufism
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
French (advanced)
German (intermediate)
Persian (intermediate)
Swahili (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 1986
| NE Lang/Civ
| U of Chicago
MA
| 1979
| NE Lang & Civ
| U of Chicago
BA
| 1975
| Anthro
| U of Pennsylvania
Abstracts
Ibadi Identity in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Writings of Nasir b. Abi Nabhan
Ibāḍī Archives in Oman and Zanzibar
Ib??? Discussions on the Divine Attributes
The Development of Ibadi Textual Tradition in the Arabian Peninsula
