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Michael Dann
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
3019 Foreign Language Building
707 S. Mathews Ave
Urbana IL 61801
United States
Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
7th-13th Centuries
Arabic
Islamic Studies
Islamic Thought
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Islamic World
Specialties
Early History Of Sunni-Shi'ite Divide
Contemporary Sunni-Shi'ite Rapprochement
Languages
Arabic (fluent)
Persian (intermediate)
Urdu (elementary)
German (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2015 | Religion | Princeton University
MA | 2012 | Religion | Princeton University
BA | 2006 | Near Eastern Studies | University of Michigan
Abstracts
Hagiography of Slave-Women: The Mothers of the Imams in Imami Historical Memory A Survey of Shi'ite Hadith Narrators in Sunni Collections Values and Specialization in the Hadith Milieu of the Late 2nd/8th and Early 3rd/9th Centuries Zaydi and Imami Appropriations of Early Shi'i Hadith Narrators