The College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities and the Religious Studies Program invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level in Early Islam (to c. 1250). The appointment will begin on August 25, 2025. The appointment will be 100% time over the 9-month academic year with a 2/2 course load at the rank of tenure-track assistant professor.

We seek a scholar of Early Islam who has some background in Religious Studies. Possible methodological approaches and areas of specialization include, but are not limited to:

• -Early Islamic world 

• -Critical historical, comparative, literary, or anthropological approaches

• -Exegesis, rhetoric, oral and written textuality, interpretive traditions

• -Historiography

• -Qur’anic studies

• -Islamic legal studies 

• -Classical Islamic thought (and its modern resonances)

• -Transnational connections, race, ethnicity, and identity

• -Interreligious encounters, negotiations, and/or dialogue

• -Social, political, and economic history of early Muslim/Islamic societies

As a tenure-track faculty member, responsibilities will include executing an innovative and consistent research and publication agenda; offering courses in the area of research specialty as well as teaching core courses in the Religious Studies and Islamic Studies undergraduate and graduate curricula (e.g., Foundational Islamic Texts; Introduction to Religions of the World; and/or Theory and Methods in the Study of Religion); supervising graduate research (in Religious Studies and the tenure-granting department); creating new avenues for cross-disciplinary research at the university that would include the study of Islam; and service to the Religious Studies Program, the tenure department, the College, and the University.

Application deadline: 28 October 2024

More details on the role are available here