Maria Massi Dakake ( ) is an American scholar of

Islamic studies Islamic studies is the academic study of Islam, which is analogous to related fields such as Jewish studies and Quranic studies. Islamic studies seeks to understand the past and the potential future of the Islamic world. In this multidiscipli ...

and associate professor of Religious Studies at

George Mason University George Mason University (GMU) is a Public university, public research university in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Located in Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C., the university is named in honor of George Mason, a Founding Father ...

. Her research mainly focuses on Islamic intellectual history, Quranic studies, Shi`ite and Sufi traditions, and women's spirituality and religious experience. She was a contributor to ''

The Study Quran ''The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary'' (TSQ) is a 2015 English-language edition of the Quran edited by Seyyed Hossein Nasr and published by HarperOne. Fellow Muslims Joseph Lumbard, Caner Dagli and Maria Massi Dakake, prepared t ...

'' - a modern verse-by-verse commentary of the Quran.

Biography

Dakake graduated with a B.A in Government from

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

in 1990 and completed her MA and PhD in

Near Eastern Studies Oriental studies is the academic field that studies Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology. In recent years, the subject has often been turned into the newer terms of Middle Eastern studie ...

from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

in 1998 and 2000 respectively. She is the director of Graduate program at George Mason University and a founding member and former interim director (2015-2016) of the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies. She has been at George Mason University since 2000 and has served as the chair of the Department of Religious Studies. Before joining George Mason University, Dakake taught at

the College of New Jersey The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) is a public university in Ewing Township, New Jersey. It is part of New Jersey's public system of higher education. Established in 1855 as the New Jersey State Normal School, TCNJ was the first normal school, ...

as an adjunct professor and Princeton University as a preceptor.

Personal life

She is a convert to Islam from a Christian background.

Works

* ''The Charismatic Community: Shi'ite Identity in Early Islam'' (SUNY Press, 2008) * ''The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary'' (Translator, commentary writer and general editor) with

Seyyed Hossein Nasr Seyyed Hossein Nasr (born April 7, 1933) is an Iranian Americans, Iranian-American academic, philosophy, philosopher, theology, theologian, and Ulama, Islamic scholar. He is University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University. ...

(editor-in-chief),

Caner Dagli Caner K. Dagli () is a Turkish Circassian-American Islamic scholar and associate professor of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Biography Dagli is of Karachai and Circassian origin and was born in ...

Joseph E. B. Lumbard Joseph E. B. Lumbard (born 1969) is an American Muslim scholar of Islamic studies, and associate professor of Quranic studies at the College of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar. He is the author, editor, and translator of ...

and

Mohammed Rustom Mohammed Rustom (born 1980) is a Canadian Islamic studies scholar. He is professor of Islamic thought at Carleton University and Executive Director of the Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies. His research interests include Arabic and Per ...

. HarperOne, 2015.Reviews of ''The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary'': * * * * * * * * * * * * * Bauer, Karen (2017). The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences. 34 (4): 70–74. * Alexandrin, Lisa (2016). Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi Society. 49: 104–108. * Ford, Peter (2016). Theological Review. 37 (1–2): 140–142. * Görke, Andreas (2018). Speculum. 93 (1): 250–251. * * Medoff, Louis (2016). Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies. 9 (3): 367–371. * Metzler, Berenike (2018). "The Study Quran: A New Translation with Notes and Commentary". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. 168 (2): 500–502. * Samsel, Peter (2016). "The Study Quran: A New Translation with Notes and Commentary". Sacred Web. 37: 77–104. * de Souza, Felipe Freitas (2016). "The Study Quran: A New Translation with Notes and Commentary". Revista Espaço Acadêmico. 187: 171–173. * * * ''The Routledge Companion to the Qur'an'' edited by George Archer, Maria M. Dakake, and Daniel A. Madigan. Routledge, 2021. * ''The Life and Legacy of Muhammad.'' The Great Courses with Audible, 2022.

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