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University of Michigan · Middle Eastern Studies
Active 1990–2024
Alexander D. Knysh is a Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Michigan, based in the Department of Middle East Studies. He holds a PhD from the Institute for Oriental Studies at the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), obtained in 1986. His research interests encompass Islamic mysticism (Sufism) in all its forms, Islamic theological, philosophical, and juridical thought in its historical development, and the vicissitudes of Islamic and Islamist movements in local contexts, especially in Yemen, North Africa, Russia, and the Northern Caucasus. He focuses on conflicts between Sufis and Salafis, Islam in Russia, and the idea of the Islamic state across different historical and geographical settings. Knysh's current projects include critically examining Sufism from a modern perspective and exploring the use of Islam as a resistance ideology in the Northern Caucasus. He is the Executive Editor of the Encyclopedia of Islamic Mysticism and a section editor for Sufism in the Encyclopedia of Islam, Third Edition. Additionally, he is editing the translation of al-Suyuti’s Qur’anic Encyclopedia. His teaching interests include Sufism, Qur’anic Studies, Modern Islamic Movements, Doxography, and Islamic Intellectual History.
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The Murder of ‘Uthman, the Fitna Wars, and the Rise and Consolidation of the Umayyad Dynasty
2024-08-16
The Problem of the Just Ruler and the First Divisions within the Community
2024-08-16
Philomena Meechan
Michigan United
Todd Austin
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jane Dammen McAuliffe
Daria Ulanova
St Petersburg University
A. I. Matochkina
Institute of Philosophy
Ph.D., Near Eastern Studies
Institute of Oriental Studies
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Basic Beliefs and Practices of Islam
2024-08-16
: <i>Sufi Masters and the Creation of Saintly Spheres in Medieval Syria</i>
Renaissance Quarterly · 2024-09-01
Shi‘ism as a Revolutionary Movement
2024-08-16
Islamic studies journal. · 2024-06-05
Abstract The article discusses the results from several co-taught courses in Islamic studies shared as a virtual exchange between the University of Michigan (U-M), USA, and Saint Petersburg State University (SPbU), Russian Federation. These courses were designed and taught to expand the range of perspectives to which students were exposed and allow them to learn how their study subject is conceptualized and studied by their peers in the partner country. The SPbU student cohort included graduates of Islamic religious colleges from different regions of the Russian Federation who shared the classroom with “secular” university students specializing in Islamic studies. The U-M cohort included students of various religious, ethnic, and academic backgrounds. In addition to weekly online meetings, the international teams met virtually outside class to prepare questions for weekly synchronous discussions and to work on a group presentation to be delivered at the end of the semester.
Islam as a Political Force and Vehicle of Opposition
2024-08-16
The Ideology and Practice of Globalized Jihadism
2024-08-16
Intellectual Struggles in Premodern Islam
2024-08-16
Islam in the Gunpowder Empires
2024-08-16
Peter J. Scales
University of Melbourne
Andrei Boiarov
Christian Lange
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München