A Carnegie Scholars Fellowship of $100,000 from the Carnegie Corporation of New York will allow Asma Afsaruddin, a Kroc Institute faculty fellow and associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies in the classics department, to conduct 18 months of research. She plans to spend the 2006-07 school year writing the manuscript for her book Striving in the Path of God: Discursive Traditions on Jihad and the Cult of Martyrdom.

“By putting my research out in the public sphere, I hope to further empower those voices which have protested the annexation of the term ‘jihad’ by radical militants and denounced it as a gross departure from the classical tradition,” Afsaruddin said.

Before coming to Notre Dame, Afsaruddin taught at the Johns Hopkins and Harvard universities. Her fields of specialization are the religious and political thought of Islam, Qur’an and hadith studies, and Islamic intellectual history.

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