Biography:Maria Massi Dakake

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Short description: American scholar of Islamic studies

Maria Massi Dakake is an United States scholar of Islamic studies and associate professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University.[1][2] 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 - a modern verse-by-verse commentary of the Quran.[3]

Biography

Maria graduated with a B.A in Government from Cornell University in 1990 and completed her MA and PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University 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, Maria taught at the College of New Jersey as an adjunct professor and Princeton University as a preceptor.[4]

Works

  • The Charismatic Community: Shi'ite Identity in Early Islam (SUNY Press, 2008)[5]
  • The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary (Translator, commentary writer and general editor) with Seyyed Hossein Nasr (editor-in-chief), Caner Dagli, Joseph E. B. Lumbard and Mohammed Rustom. HarperOne, 2015.[6]

See also

  • Nusrat Amin

References

  1. Davary, Bahar (2016-11-08). "The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary". Horizons (Cambridge University Press (CUP)) 43 (2): 397–401. doi:10.1017/hor.2016.108. ISSN 0360-9669. 
  2. Alexandrin, Elizabeth (2016). "The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary". Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society (The Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society) 59: 104–108. 
  3. Editor, Daniel Burke, CNN Religion. "Could this Quran curb extremism?". CNN. https://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/25/living/study-quran-extremism/index.html. 
  4. "Faculty and Staff: Maria M Dakake". https://religious.gmu.edu/people/mdakakem. 
  5. Reviews of The Charismatic Community: Shi'ite Identity in Early Islam:
    • Anzalone, Christopher (2007). "The Charismatic Community: Shi'ite Identity in Early Islam". Religious Studies Review (Wiley) 33 (4): 328–329. doi:10.1111/j.1748-0922.2007.00227_1.x. ISSN 0319-485X. 
    • Walker, P.E. (2009) 'The Charismatic Community: Shi'ite Identity in Early Islam', The Journal of the American Oriental Society, 129(4), pp. 727-728.
    • Rizvi, Sajjad H. (2008). "The Charismatic Community: Shiʿite Identity in Early Islam". Journal of Qur'anic Studies (Edinburgh University Press) 10 (2): 98–101. doi:10.3366/e1465359109000448. ISSN 1465-3591. 
    • Stewart, Devin (2008). "The Charismatic Community". American Journal of Islam and Society (International Institute of Islamic Thought) 25 (4): 128–130. doi:10.35632/ajis.v25i4.1439. ISSN 2690-3741. 
  6. Reviews of The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary: