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Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the Humanities
University of Pennsylvania
Jamal J. Elias, PhD
I am the Director of the Wolf Humanities Center and Director of the Penn Forum for Global Islamic Studies. I specialize in the history, literature and visual culture of the Islamic World
Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the Humanities
University of Pennsylvania
Jason Varney Photography
Jason Varney Photography
Publications
My latest book, After Rumi: The Mevlevis and Their World, is coming out from Harvard University Press in Autumn 2025. I also have an edited volume coming out at the same time from University of Pennsylvania Press entitled Beyond the Rose and the Nightingale: What Makes Islamic Literature Islamic? For my other writings, click on the Publications and Articles tabs.
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