Dr. Jamal J. Elias is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the Humanities and Director of the Penn Forum for Global Islamic Studies as well as former Director of the Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a historian of Islamic thought, literature and visual culture with a particular focus on Western and Southern Asia (from Turkey to Pakistan). Dr. Elias is the author or editor of eight books (two more as a co-author) and of over fifty articles in scholarly journals, encyclopedias and popular media. His writings have been translated into at least nine languages.
Dr. Elias is the recipient of many grants and awards, including from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Templeton Religion Trust, the American Research Institute in Turkey, the American Institute for Pakistan Studies, and the Middle East Studies Association. He has served on the boards of several international academic and artistic organizations, including as Special Advisor to the Provost of Aga Khan University focusing on the development of the School of Arts and Sciences in Karachi and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London.
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