John Obert Voll is an American scholar of Islam and Professor Emeritus of Islamic History at

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...

in Washington, DC.

Biography

After graduating from

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

, Voll earned a master's degree in Middle Eastern studies and a doctorate in history and Middle Eastern studies from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. Before coming to Georgetown, he spent thirty years teaching Middle Eastern and international history at the

University of New Hampshire The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Durham, New Hampshire. It was founded and incorporated in 1866 as a land grant college in Hanover in connection with Dartmouth College, mo ...

. He has served as president of both the Middle East Studies Association and the New England Historical Association. Voll has served on the boards of directors of the American Council of Learned Societies, the Sudan Studies Association, the World History Association, the New Hampshire Humanities Council, and the New Hampshire Council on World Affairs. He has lived in

Sudan Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediter ...

Lebanon Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus li ...

, and

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

, and has conducted research on Islamic movements in

Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa is, geographically, the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lies south of the Sahara. These include West Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, and Southern Africa. Geopolitically, in addition to the List of sov ...

East East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fa ...

and

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern Asia, south-eastern region of Asia, consistin ...

, and the

Middle East The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabian Peninsula, Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Anatolia, Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Pro ...

Works

* ''Eightteenth Century Revival and Reform in Islam'' edited with

Nehemia Levtzion Nehemia Levtzion ( he, נחמיה לבציון; November 24, 1935 — August 15, 2003) was an Israeli scholar of African history, Near East, Islamic, and African studies, and the President of the Open University of Israel from 1987 to 1992 and the ...

* ''Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World''Reviews of ''Islam: Continuity and Change in the Modern World'': * International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , February 1996 , pp. 118 - 119 * The American Historical Review, Volume 88, Issue 4, October 1983, Pages 1030–1031 * Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Apr., 1986), pp. 293-297 * Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Jun., 1984), pp. 212-213 * Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 48, No. 2 (1985), pp. 350-351 * Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Vol. 17, No. 2 (December 1983), p. 198 * Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 104, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1984), pp. 594-595 * The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 16, No. 4 (1983), pp. 683-687 * Middle East Journal, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Spring, 1983), pp. 283-284 * ''Islam and Democracy after the Arab Spring'' with

John Esposito John Louis Esposito (born May 19, 1940) is an Italian-American academic, professor of Middle Eastern and religious studies, and scholar of Islamic studies, who serves as Professor of Religion, International Affairs, and Islamic Studies at Geor ...

and

Tamara Sonn Tamara Sonn is an American academic who specializes in Islamic and religious studies. She is currently the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in the History of Islam at Georgetown University. She was previously Kenan Professor of Religion and Hu ...

* ''Makers of Contemporary Islam'' with John Esposito * ''Islam and Democracy'' with John L. Esposito * ''Historical Dictionary of the Sudan'' with Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban and Richard Lobban * ''The Sudan: Unity and Diversity in a Multicultural Society'' with Sarah Potts Voll

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Voll, John Obert American historians of Islam Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Dartmouth College alumni Harvard University alumni University of New Hampshire faculty Georgetown University faculty