Islamic studies scholar (1938–2019)
Richard C. Martin (1938–2019) was an Islamic studies scholar and emeritus professor of religion at Emory University.[1]
Biography
Martin earned his PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Literature from New York University in 1975.[1] He was the department chair at Emory University from 1996 to 1999 and became emeritus Professor of Religion in August 2012.[1] He was the editor of the Review of Middle East Studies (RoMES) between 2012 and 2020.[2] Martin taught at Virginia Tech University as a Visiting Scholar[1] and chaired the Department of Religious Studies at Arizona State University.[2]
Works
- As author
- Approaches to Islam in Religious Studies (Tucson 1985)
- Islamic Studies: A History of Religions Approach (Prentice-Hall 1996)
- Defenders of Reason in Islam: Mu`tazilism from Medieval School to Modern Symbol (Oneworld 1997)
- As editor
- Sharing the Book: Religious Perspectives on the Rights and Wrongs of Proselytism with John Witte
- Islamism: Contested Perspectives on Political Islam (Stanford University Press, 2009) with Abbas Barzegar
- Rethinking Islamic Studies: From Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism (University of South Carolina Press, 2010) with Carl W. Ernst
References
