Maria Massi Dakake
Biographic Data
| ID | 1637169 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Massi Dakake |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria Massi |
| FAMILY NAME | Dakake |
| SIGNATURE | DAKAKE M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Shelter from the Tyrant
In the Qur'an, as in the Bible, the young Moses is born in perilous circumstances, and with a promise of greatness that can only be fulfilled if he survives; and in both scriptural accounts, his life is repeatedly saved through the heroic efforts of the women around him: his mother, his sister, and the wife of Pharaoh, who adopts him. The article begins with an examination of the qur'anic account of Moses's early life and the women whose interven…
The Routledge Companion to the Qur'an
"The Routledge Companion to the Qur'an offers an impressive and comprehensive overview of the formative scripture of Islam. Including a wide number of scholarly approaches to the Qur'an by both established authorities and emergent voices, the forty essays in this volume represent the latest word on the academic understanding of the Muslim scripture. The Qur'an is spoken of in scholarship across disciplines; is the beating heart of a living commun…
Qur'anic terminology, translation, and the Islamic conception of religion
A key question in the field of religious studies is the extent to which ‘religion’ as a concept ‘translates’ in various cultural contexts, with some arguing that it is a purely Western and academic construct. In this article, I argue that the Islamic understanding of religion as a universal category of human experience with various, distinct manifestations is similar to the concept of religion widely operative in the academic discipline of compar…
Response to Karen Bauer’s Review of The Study Quran
In her review of The Study Quran in AJISS (34:4), Karen Bauer makes anumber of broad claims about the authors’ ideology and methodology, particularlyin producing the commentary that accompanies the translation.Her claims regarding the commentary, however, seem to be based on alimited reading of the text, which has led her to make a number of otherwiseinexplicable factual errors. For example, in assessing the SQ authors’selection, use, and represe…
Teaching Islam in the Public University
A Good Word is as a Good Tree
“Guest of the Inmost Heart”
In the works of Sufi love mysticism, the Sufi seeker is often represented as a male lover in relation to God as the symbolically “feminine” Beloved. However, women themselves were not infrequently the practitioners of the mystical path in Islam, and it is clear from the words attributed to them that female Sufis developed their own image of the Divine Beloved as the symbolically masculine object of their female desire. In this paper, I examine sh…
Charismatic Community, The
Hiding in Plain Sight
Journal Article Hiding in Plain Sight: The Practical and Doctrinal Significance of Secrecy in Shi‘ite Islam Get access Maria Dakake Maria Dakake Maria Massi Dakake is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 74, Issue 2, June 2006, Pages 324–355, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaare…
The Soul as Barzakh
Qur'anic terminology, translation, and the Islamic conception of religion
A key question in the field of religious studies is the extent to which ‘religion’ as a concept ‘translates’ in various cultural contexts, with some arguing that it is a purely Western and academic construct. In this article, I argue that the Islamic understanding of religion as a universal category of human experience with various, distinct manifestations is similar to the concept of religion widely operative in the academic discipline of compar…
Hiding in Plain Sight
Journal Article Hiding in Plain Sight: The Practical and Doctrinal Significance of Secrecy in Shi‘ite Islam Get access Maria Dakake Maria Dakake Maria Massi Dakake is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 74, Issue 2, June 2006, Pages 324–355, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaare…
The Soul as Barzakh
Hiding in Plain Sight
Journal Article Hiding in Plain Sight: The Practical and Doctrinal Significance of Secrecy in Shi‘ite Islam Get access Maria Dakake Maria Dakake Maria Massi Dakake is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 74, Issue 2, June 2006, Pages 324–355, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaare…
Charismatic Community, The
“Guest of the Inmost Heart”
In the works of Sufi love mysticism, the Sufi seeker is often represented as a male lover in relation to God as the symbolically “feminine” Beloved. However, women themselves were not infrequently the practitioners of the mystical path in Islam, and it is clear from the words attributed to them that female Sufis developed their own image of the Divine Beloved as the symbolically masculine object of their female desire. In this paper, I examine sh…
A Good Word is as a Good Tree
Response to Karen Bauer’s Review of The Study Quran
In her review of The Study Quran in AJISS (34:4), Karen Bauer makes anumber of broad claims about the authors’ ideology and methodology, particularlyin producing the commentary that accompanies the translation.Her claims regarding the commentary, however, seem to be based on alimited reading of the text, which has led her to make a number of otherwiseinexplicable factual errors. For example, in assessing the SQ authors’selection, use, and represe…
Teaching Islam in the Public University
Qur'anic terminology, translation, and the Islamic conception of religion
A key question in the field of religious studies is the extent to which ‘religion’ as a concept ‘translates’ in various cultural contexts, with some arguing that it is a purely Western and academic construct. In this article, I argue that the Islamic understanding of religion as a universal category of human experience with various, distinct manifestations is similar to the concept of religion widely operative in the academic discipline of compar…
The Routledge Companion to the Qur'an
"The Routledge Companion to the Qur'an offers an impressive and comprehensive overview of the formative scripture of Islam. Including a wide number of scholarly approaches to the Qur'an by both established authorities and emergent voices, the forty essays in this volume represent the latest word on the academic understanding of the Muslim scripture. The Qur'an is spoken of in scholarship across disciplines; is the beating heart of a living commun…
Shelter from the Tyrant
In the Qur'an, as in the Bible, the young Moses is born in perilous circumstances, and with a promise of greatness that can only be fulfilled if he survives; and in both scriptural accounts, his life is repeatedly saved through the heroic efforts of the women around him: his mother, his sister, and the wife of Pharaoh, who adopts him. The article begins with an examination of the qur'anic account of Moses's early life and the women whose interven…
Philosophy (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Islamic Studies and History (7 works) · Theology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (5 works) · Islam (5 works) · Citation (4 works)