Marcia Hermansen

Marcia Hermansen is an American scholar of Islam. Hermansen is professor and director of Islamic World Studies at Loyola University Chicago.[1]

Biography

Hermansen earned a PhD from the University of Chicago in Arabic and Islamic Studies. She specializes in Sufism, Islamic thought, Muslims in America, Shah Waliullah,[2] Islam and Muslims in South Asia, and women and gender in Islam.[3][4] Hermansen is a Muslim.[5]

Hermansen has studied modern Sufi movements and has described movements which admit non-Muslims as "Perennial Movements" and movements which follow orthodox Islamic tradition and only admit Muslims as "Hybrid Movements", utilizing the metaphor of a garden and flowering plants to describe the diversity of modern American Sufi movements.[6][7] She has also studied Muslim youth culture and identity.[7] Hermansen's work examined young American Muslims identity post-9/11.[5][8]

Works
  • The Conclusive Argument from God: Shah Wali Allah of Delhi's Hujjat Allah Al-Baligha. Brill, 1996[9]
  • Shah Wali Allah's Treatises on Islamic Law. Fons Vitae, 2011
  • Muslima Theology: The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians, co-edited with Ednan Aslan and Elif Medeni. Peter Lang, 2013.[10]
  • Islam and Citizenship Education, co-edited with Ednan Aslan, Springer, 2015.
  • Islam, Religions, and Pluralism in Europe, co-edited with Ednan Aslan and Ranja Ebrahim, Wiesbaden: Springer 2016.
  • Religion and Violence: Muslim and Christian Theological and Pedagogical Reflections, co-edited with Ednan Aslan, Wiesbaden: Springer, 2017.
  • Varieties of American Sufism: Islam, Sufi Orders and Authority in a Time of Transition, co-edited with Elliott Bazzano. Albany, NY SUNY Press, 2020.
  • Religious Diversity at School: Educating for New Pluralistic Contexts. Co-edited with Ednan Aslan. Weisbaden: Springer, 2021.

References
  1. "Faculty & Staff Directory - Marcia Hermansen, PhD". Loyola University Chicago.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. "Ghazali of subcontinent: 'Shah Waliullah was a modern social reformer'". The Express Tribune. 2018-03-06. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
  3. "Marcia Hermansen Archives". Fons Vitae Publishing. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
  4. "Prof. Marcia K. Hermansen - Loyola University Chicago". mherman.sites.luc.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-24.
  5. Skerry, Peter. "Problems of the Second Generation: To be Young, Muslim, and American". Brookings. Retrieved 2021-10-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  6. Cesari, Jocelyne (2004). When Islam and Democracy Meet: Muslims in Europe and in the United States. palgrave macmillian. p. 52. ISBN 0312294018.
  7. Yazbeck-Haddad, Yvonne; Smith, Jane I.; Moore, Kathleen M. (2006). Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today. Oxford University Press. pp. 160, 163. ISBN 9780195177831.
  8. Meudini, Fait (2009). "Muslim American College Youth: Attitudes and Responses Five Years After 9/11" (PDF). The Muslim World: 41–42.
  9. Reviews of The Conclusive Argument from God: Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi’s Hujjat Allāh al-Bāligha:
    • Schmidtke, Sabine (1997). "The Conclusive Argument from God: Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi's Hujjat Allāh al-Bāligha". Middle East Studies Association Bulletin. Cambridge University Press (CUP). 31 (2): 169–170. doi:10.1017/s0026318400035690. ISSN 0026-3184.
    • Lewisohn, Leonard (2000). British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies Vol. 27, No. 2, pp. 216-220
  10. Reviews of Muslima Theology The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians:
    • Wadud, Amina (2014) Theological Studies. Vol. 75 Issue 4, p. 951
    • Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Vol. 105 (2015), pp. 468-471
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