Rachel Scott
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Assistant Professor |
203 Major Williams |
231-4848 |
Ph.D. in Islamic Studies at the University of London, 2004.
Rachel Scott is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies in the Religious Studies Program in the Department of Religion and Culture. She received her Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) at the University of London (2004), and her M.Phil. in Modern Middle Eastern Studies and her B.A. in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Oxford. Her research interests include modern Islamic thought, with a focus on contemporary Islamic thinking on citizenship, and religious authority and the relationship between "religion" and "state." Other research interests include contemporary Qur'anic exegesis and modern Islamic historiography. Her book, The Challenge of Political Islam: Non-Muslims and the Egyptian State, is currently under contract with Stanford University Press. Professor Scott is an active member of the Middle Eastern Studies Association and the American Academy of Religion, for which she is currently co-chair of the regional "Islam" section.
Representative Publications:
"A Contextual Approach to Women's Rights in the Qur'an: Readings of 4:34," Muslim World, Vol. 99, No. 1, (January 2009), pp. 60-85
"The Role of the 'ulamā' in an "Islamic Order": The Early Thought of Muhammad al-Ghazali (1916- 1996), Maghreb Review, Vol. 32, Nos. 2-3 (December 2007), pp. 149-174
"Contextual Citizenship in Modern Islamic Thought," Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Vol. 18, No. 1 (January 2007), pp. 1-18
“An ‘Official’ Islamic Response to the Egyptian al-Jihad Movement,” The Journal of Political Ideologies, Vol. 8, No. 1 (February 2003), pp. 39-61. Republished in Political Islam (Routledge Major Works Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies, Vol. 2, 2006)
"Education and Arabism in Damascus at the Turn of the Twentieth Century," Islamic Culture, Vol. 72, No. 3 (July 1998), pp. 17-64
Courses:
REL 1024: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
REL 3234: Islam
REL/ HUM 4324: Topics in Religion and Culture: Islam and the Modern World
REL/ HUM 4324: Topics in Religion and Culture: Women and Gender in Islam (to be taught fall
2009)
REL 5134: Islamic Political Thought
ASPT 6204: Islamic Conceptions of Justice (in planning stages)