Marcia Hermansen is an

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scholar of

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originally from Canada. Hermansen is the Lady Fatima Endowed Faculty Chair in Women and Divinity at Habib University Karachi. She formerly was a Professor in the Theology Department and director of Islamic World Studies at

Loyola University Chicago Loyola University Chicago (Loyola or LUC) is a Private university, private Society of Jesus, Jesuit research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1870 by the Society of Jesus, Loyola is one of the largest Catholic Church, ...

Biography

Hermansen earned a PhD from the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

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and Islamic Studies. Her graduate training included study of Arabic, Persian, and Urdu though language training in the respective countries. She specializes in

Sufism Sufism ( or ) is a mysticism, mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic Tazkiyah, purification, spirituality, ritualism, and Asceticism#Islam, asceticism. Practitioners of Sufism are r ...

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, Muslims in America, Shah Waliullah, Islam and Muslims in South Asia, and women and gender in Islam. Hermansen is a Muslim. Hermansen has studied modern Sufi movements and has described movements which hold that Sufism is part of broader, eternal spirituality as "Perennial Movements" and movements which require adherence to Islamic tradition as "Hybrid Movements", utilizing the metaphor of a garden and flowering plants to describe the diversity of modern American Sufi movements. "Transplants" in the garden refers to Sufi groups in the West that primarily attract immigrants from Muslim societies. She has also studied Muslim youth culture and identity. Hermansen's work examined young American Muslims identity

post-9/11 The post-9/11 period is the time after the September 11 attacks, characterized by heightened suspicion of non-Americans in the United States, increased government efforts to address terrorism, and a more aggressive American foreign policy. Some ...

Works

* ''The Conclusive Argument from God:

Shah Wali Allah Qutb ud-Din Ahmad ibn ʿAbd-ur-Rahim al-ʿUmari ad-Dehlawi (‎; 1703–1762), commonly known as Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (also Shah Wali Allah), was an Islamic Sunni scholar and Sufi reformer, who contributed to Islamic revival in the Indian su ...

of Delhi's Hujjat Allah Al-Baligha. Brill, 1996'' * ''Shah Wali Allah's Treatises on Islamic Law.'' Fons Vitae, 2011 * ''Muslima Theology: The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians'', co-edited with

Ednan Aslan Ednan Aslan (born 7 November 1959 in Bayburt) is an Austrian-Turkish scholar of Islam and professor of Islamic religious education at the University of Vienna. Biography Aslan was born on 7 November 1959 in Bayburt, Turkey. Aslan graduated from t ...

and Elif Medeni. Peter Lang, 2013.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 * ''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.

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