Jawid Mojaddedi is an Afghan researcher and professor.

Early life

Mojaddedi was born in

Kabul, Afghanistan Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. Acco ...

. At age five, along with his mother and brother, he moved to

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. During the 1990s, Jawid Mojaddedi attended

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

, where he earned his BA and PhD in

Middle Eastern Studies Middle Eastern studies (sometimes referred to as Near Eastern studies) is a name given to a number of academic programs associated with the study of the history, culture, politics, economies, and geography of the Middle East, an area that is gene ...

Career

He graduated from the

. He then worked as a full-time faculty member of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, where he taught Arabic and

Islamic Studies Islamic studies refers to the academic study of Islam, and generally to academic multidisciplinary "studies" programs—programs similar to others that focus on the history, texts and theologies of other religious traditions, such as Easter ...

. In 1998, Jawid moved from Great Britain to the

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. He worked at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

for two years as an editor of ''

Encyclopædia Iranica ''Encyclopædia Iranica'' is a project whose goal is to create a comprehensive and authoritative English language encyclopedia about the history, culture, and civilization of Iranian peoples from prehistory to modern times. Scope The ''Encycl ...

''. He began teaching at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

in 2003. He has served as chair of the Department of Religion there and as Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.

Works

Mojaddedi is a Rumi expert. His published books include translations of Rumi's longest poem, known as the '' Masnavi'', into simple English. ''The Masnavi: Book One'' was published in 2004 and was awarded the Lois Roth Prize for excellence in translation of

Persian literature Persian literature ( fa, ادبیات فارسی, Adabiyâte fârsi, ) comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans over two-and-a-half millennia. Its sources h ...

by the

American Institute of Iranian Studies The American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIrS) is a non-profit consortium of US universities and museums, founded in 1967, for the purpose of promoting Iranian and Persian studies. AIIrS facilitates academic and cultural exchange between the US ...

. He continued with ''The Masnavi: Book Two'' in 2007, ''The Masnavi: Book Three'' in 2013, ''The Masnavi: Book Four'' in 2017 and ''The Masnavi: Book Five'' in 2022. All five volumes were published as

Oxford World's Classics Oxford World's Classics is an imprint of Oxford University Press. First established in 1901 by Grant Richards and purchased by OUP in 1906, this imprint publishes primarily dramatic and classic literature for students and the general public. I ...

Editions. This project has been supported by a literature translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2015. Mojaddedi was also awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2018 to support the progress of this project. Mojaddedi's analytical study, ''Beyond Dogma: Rumi's Teachings on Friendship with God and Early Sufi Theories'', was published by Oxford University Press in 2012.

Bibliography

*''The Biographical Tradition in Sufism: The Tabaqat Genre from Al-Sulami to Jami'' (2001) *''Beyond Dogma: Rumi's Teachings on Friendship with God and Early Sufi Theories'' (2012)

The Masnavi (
Oxford World's Classics Oxford World's Classics is an imprint of Oxford University Press. First established in 1901 by Grant Richards and purchased by OUP in 1906, this imprint publishes primarily dramatic and classic literature for students and the general public. I ...
)

#''The Masnavi: Book One'' (2004) Lois Roth Prize for excellence in translation of

by the

(2005) #''The Masnavi: Book Two'' (2007) #''The Masnavi: Book Three'' (2013) #''The Masnavi: Book Four'' (2017) #''The Masnavi: Book Five'' (2022)

As Co-Editor

*''Wiley Blackwell Companion to the

Qur'an The Quran (, ; Standard Arabic: , Quranic Arabic: , , 'the recitation'), also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation from God. It is organized in 114 chapters (pl.: , sing. ...

'', 2nd Edition (2017) *''Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature'', 2nd Edition (2012) *''Interpretation and Jurisprudence in Medieval Islam'' (2006)

References

External links

* * Living people Alumni of the Victoria University of Manchester Academics of the Victoria University of Manchester Rutgers University faculty People from Kabul Year of birth missing (living people) {{academic-bio-stub