John Esposito

John Louis Esposito ( born May 19, 1940) is an American scholar of Islam. Currently he is Professor of International Affairs and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

Life

Esposito was born in Brooklyn, New York City, grew up as a Roman Catholic on in an Italian- American neighborhood and spent a decade in a Catholic monastery. After his first degree, he worked as a management consultant and teacher at a high school. He then earned a master's degree in theology at St. John's University in 1974 and a PhD at Temple University, Pennsylvania in 1974; according to Islamic studies he held postdoctoral positions at Harvard and Oxford. At the Jesuit College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts he held religious studies seminars; there he had the Loyola Chair for the Study of East Mittlerer held and presided over the Center for International Studies. At Georgetown University, Esposito is University Professor and teaches Religious Studies, International Affairs and Islamic Studies. In 1988 he was elected Chairman of the Middle East Studies Association of North America ( MESA). He was also, inter alia, President of the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies. He has received, among others Awards from the American Academy of Religion ( Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion 2005), whose Vice-President ( 2012) and President (2013 ) he was last. He is among other things Member of the EU Radicalisation Awareness Network and Ambassador for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations.

Publications (selection)

Dictionary

  • Eds The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, 5 volumes, 2009 ISBN 978-0-19-530513-5
  • Dalia Mogahed with: Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think, 2008, ISBN 978-1-59562-017-0
  • Eds The Oxford History of Islam, 2004, ISBN 0-19-510799-3
  • Hg The Islamic World: Past and Present, 3 vols, 2004, ISBN 0-19-516520-9
  • Eds The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, 4 volumes, 1995, ISBN 0-19-506613-8
  • Eds The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, 1994, ISBN 0-19-512559-2

Monographs

  • What Everyone Needs to Know About Islam, 1st edition 2002, 2nd edition 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-979413-3
  • The Future of Islam, 2010, ISBN 0-19-516521-7
  • Islam: The Straight Path, 1st edition 1988, 3rd edition 2004, ISBN 0-19-518266-9
  • Unholy War: Terror in the Name of Islam, 2002, ISBN 0-19-515435-5
  • With Natana J. Delong -Bas: Women in Muslim Family Law, 2nd edition 2002, ISBN 0-8156-2908-7
  • With John Voll: Makers of Contemporary Islam, 2001, ISBN 0-19-514128-8
  • The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality, 3rd edition 1999, ISBN 0-19-513076-6
  • Political Islam: Radicalism, Revolution or Reform, 1997, ISBN 1-55587-168-2

Anthologies

  • Edited by Ibrahim Kalin: Islamophobia: The Challenge of Pluralism in the 21st Century, 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-975364-2
  • Hg Islam in Asia: Religion, Politics, and Society, 2006, ISBN 0-19-504082-1
  • M. Hakan Yavuz Hg with: Turkish Islam and the Secular State: The Gulen Movement, 2003, ISBN 0-8156-3040-9
  • Edited by Francois Burgat: Modernizing Islam: Religion in the Public Sphere in the Middle East and Europe, 2003, ISBN 0-8135-3198-5
  • Edited by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad: Islam, Gender and Social Change, 1997, ISBN 0-19-511357-8
  • Hg Islam and Politics, 1st edition 1984, 4th edition 1998, ISBN 0-8156-2774-2
  • Edited by John Voll: Islam and Democracy, 1996, ISBN 0-19-510816-7
Integrated Authority File
445057
de