Marcia Hermansen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1403098 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marcia Hermansen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marcia |
| FAMILY NAME | Hermansen |
| SIGNATURE | HERMANSEN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Theology, Loyola University, Chicago, United States |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3875-9181 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Da'wa: A Global History of Islamic Missionary Thought and Practice, by Matthew J. Kuiper and Culture of Da'wa. Islamic Preaching in the Modern World, edited by Itzchak Weismann and Jamal Malik
Da'wa: A Global History of Islamic Missionary Thought and Practice, by Matthew J. Kuiper. Edinburgh University Press, 2021, 320pp. 13 black and white illustrations, 7 black and white maps. Hb. $130.00, ISBN-13: 9781474451529; Pb. 36.95 ISBN-13: 9781474451536. Culture of Da'wa. Islamic Preaching in the Modern World, edited by Itzchak Weismann and Jamal Malik. University of Utah Press, 2020. 325pp. 19 illustrations, 4 maps. Pb. $45. ISBN-13: 978160…
The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam. Vol. 2: Heirs of the Prophet: Authority and Power, edited by Rachida Chih, David Jordan and Stefan Reichmuth
Tahera Aftab. Sufi Women of South Asia: Veiled Friends of God
Peace Education and Religion: Perspectives, Pedagogy, Policies
SherAli Tareen. Defending Muḥammad in Modernity
Varieties of American Sufism: Islam, Sufi Orders, and Authority in a Time of Transition
Religions of India in Practice
Religion and Violence: Muslim and Christian Theological and Pedagogical Reflections
Religion and Violence: Muslim and Christian Theological and Pedagogical Reflections
Islam, Religions, and Pluralism in Europe
Islam and Citizenship Education
The scholarly contributors to this volume investigate various means to stimulate and facilitate reflection on new social relations while clarifying the contradictions between religious and social affiliation from different perspectives and experiences. They explore hindrances whose removal could enable Muslim children and youth to pursue equal participation in political and social life, and the ways that education could facilitate this process. C…
Islam and Citizenship Education
Said Nursi and Maulana Ilyas: Examples of Pietistic Spirituality among Twentieth-Century Islamic Movements
The premise of this article is that we can learn something about the spirituality as well as other orientations of Bediüzzaman Said Nursi and the movement he inspired by taking a comparative perspective. Among other twentieth-century movements in the Muslim world, it has been suggested that the ‘faith’ movement of Maulana Muhammad Ilyas, also known as the Tablighi Jamaat, would be the most apt for comparison. This study therefore highlights compa…
Rewriting Sufi Identity in the 20th Century: The Biographical Approaches of Maulānā Ashraf 'Alī T̲h̲ānvī and Khwājah Ḥasan Niẓāmī
The Academic Study of Sufism at American Universities
This article provides an overview of the history and current situation of the academic study of Sufism (Islamic mysticism) at American universities. It examines Sufism’s place within the broader curriculum of Islamic studies as well as some of the main themes and approaches employed by American scholars. In addition, it explains both the academic context in which Sufi studies are located and the role of contemporary positions in Islamic and weste…
Chapter 10. Keeping the Faith: Convert Muslim Mothers and the Transmission of Female Muslim Identity in the West
Women Embracing Islam: Gender and Conversion in the West
Elizabeth Poole. Reporting Islam: Media Representations of British Muslims
Muslims in the Performative Mode: A Reflection on Muslim‐Christian Dialogue
Dreams and Dreaming in Islam
In my overview of approaches to dreams and dreaming in Islam, I focus primarily on hermeneutic questions about the practice of dream interpretation. As the passage cited above suggests, the idea that there is a factual meaning or indication to a dream is assumed in the tradition. However, the interpretive process, the contextualization of dream and dreamer, and the relation between them are all factors of successful exegesis. This is foundational…
Hybrid Identity Formations in Muslim America: The Case of American Sufi Movements 1
Sufi Heirs of the Prophet: The Indian Naqshbandiyya and the Rise of the Mediating Sufi Shaykh
This book offers an examination of the sources and evolution of personal authority in one Islamic society.Sufi Heirs of the explores the multifaceted development of personal authority in Islamic societies by tracing the transformation of one mystical sufi lineage in colonial India, the Naqshbandiyya. Arthur F. Buehler isolates four sources of personal authority evident in the practices of the Naqshbandiyya - lineage, spiritual traveling, status a…
The Conclusive Argument from God: Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi's Ḥujjat Allāh al-Bāligha
The Conclusive Argument of God is the master work of Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi (1762), considered to be the most important Muslim thinker of pre-modern South Asia. This work, originally written in Arabic, represents a synthesis of the Islamic intellectual disciplines authoritative in the 18th century. In order to argue for the rational, ethical, and spiritual basis for the implementation of the hadith injunctions of the Prophet Muhammad, Shāh Walī…
News of Fellows and Scholars
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Hybrid Identity Formations in Muslim America: The Case of American Sufi Movements 1
Muslims in the Performative Mode: A Reflection on Muslim‐Christian Dialogue
Said Nursi and Maulana Ilyas: Examples of Pietistic Spirituality among Twentieth-Century Islamic Movements
The premise of this article is that we can learn something about the spirituality as well as other orientations of Bediüzzaman Said Nursi and the movement he inspired by taking a comparative perspective. Among other twentieth-century movements in the Muslim world, it has been suggested that the ‘faith’ movement of Maulana Muhammad Ilyas, also known as the Tablighi Jamaat, would be the most apt for comparison. This study therefore highlights compa…
News of Fellows and Scholars
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Conclusive Argument from God: Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi's Ḥujjat Allāh al-Bāligha
The Conclusive Argument of God is the master work of Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi (1762), considered to be the most important Muslim thinker of pre-modern South Asia. This work, originally written in Arabic, represents a synthesis of the Islamic intellectual disciplines authoritative in the 18th century. In order to argue for the rational, ethical, and spiritual basis for the implementation of the hadith injunctions of the Prophet Muhammad, Shāh Walī…
Hybrid Identity Formations in Muslim America: The Case of American Sufi Movements 1
Sufi Heirs of the Prophet: The Indian Naqshbandiyya and the Rise of the Mediating Sufi Shaykh
This book offers an examination of the sources and evolution of personal authority in one Islamic society.Sufi Heirs of the explores the multifaceted development of personal authority in Islamic societies by tracing the transformation of one mystical sufi lineage in colonial India, the Naqshbandiyya. Arthur F. Buehler isolates four sources of personal authority evident in the practices of the Naqshbandiyya - lineage, spiritual traveling, status a…
Dreams and Dreaming in Islam
In my overview of approaches to dreams and dreaming in Islam, I focus primarily on hermeneutic questions about the practice of dream interpretation. As the passage cited above suggests, the idea that there is a factual meaning or indication to a dream is assumed in the tradition. However, the interpretive process, the contextualization of dream and dreamer, and the relation between them are all factors of successful exegesis. This is foundational…
Elizabeth Poole. Reporting Islam: Media Representations of British Muslims
Muslims in the Performative Mode: A Reflection on Muslim‐Christian Dialogue
Chapter 10. Keeping the Faith: Convert Muslim Mothers and the Transmission of Female Muslim Identity in the West
Women Embracing Islam: Gender and Conversion in the West
Rewriting Sufi Identity in the 20th Century: The Biographical Approaches of Maulānā Ashraf 'Alī T̲h̲ānvī and Khwājah Ḥasan Niẓāmī
The Academic Study of Sufism at American Universities
This article provides an overview of the history and current situation of the academic study of Sufism (Islamic mysticism) at American universities. It examines Sufism’s place within the broader curriculum of Islamic studies as well as some of the main themes and approaches employed by American scholars. In addition, it explains both the academic context in which Sufi studies are located and the role of contemporary positions in Islamic and weste…
Said Nursi and Maulana Ilyas: Examples of Pietistic Spirituality among Twentieth-Century Islamic Movements
The premise of this article is that we can learn something about the spirituality as well as other orientations of Bediüzzaman Said Nursi and the movement he inspired by taking a comparative perspective. Among other twentieth-century movements in the Muslim world, it has been suggested that the ‘faith’ movement of Maulana Muhammad Ilyas, also known as the Tablighi Jamaat, would be the most apt for comparison. This study therefore highlights compa…
Islam and Citizenship Education
The scholarly contributors to this volume investigate various means to stimulate and facilitate reflection on new social relations while clarifying the contradictions between religious and social affiliation from different perspectives and experiences. They explore hindrances whose removal could enable Muslim children and youth to pursue equal participation in political and social life, and the ways that education could facilitate this process. C…
Islam and Citizenship Education
Islam, Religions, and Pluralism in Europe
Religion and Violence: Muslim and Christian Theological and Pedagogical Reflections
Religion and Violence: Muslim and Christian Theological and Pedagogical Reflections
Varieties of American Sufism: Islam, Sufi Orders, and Authority in a Time of Transition
Religions of India in Practice
Peace Education and Religion: Perspectives, Pedagogy, Policies
SherAli Tareen. Defending Muḥammad in Modernity
Tahera Aftab. Sufi Women of South Asia: Veiled Friends of God
The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam. Vol. 2: Heirs of the Prophet: Authority and Power, edited by Rachida Chih, David Jordan and Stefan Reichmuth
Da'wa: A Global History of Islamic Missionary Thought and Practice, by Matthew J. Kuiper and Culture of Da'wa. Islamic Preaching in the Modern World, edited by Itzchak Weismann and Jamal Malik
Da'wa: A Global History of Islamic Missionary Thought and Practice, by Matthew J. Kuiper. Edinburgh University Press, 2021, 320pp. 13 black and white illustrations, 7 black and white maps. Hb. $130.00, ISBN-13: 9781474451529; Pb. 36.95 ISBN-13: 9781474451536. Culture of Da'wa. Islamic Preaching in the Modern World, edited by Itzchak Weismann and Jamal Malik. University of Utah Press, 2020. 325pp. 19 illustrations, 4 maps. Pb. $45. ISBN-13: 978160…
Philosophy (17 works) · Islam (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Theology (12 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (10 works) · History (10 works) · Religious studies (10 works) · Islamic Studies and History (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Political science (5 works)