Marcia Hermansen is an

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scholar of

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originally from Canada. Hermansen is professor and director of Islamic World Studies at

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Biography

Hermansen earned a PhD from the

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and Islamic Studies. Her graduate training included study of Arabic, Persian, and Urdu though language training in the respective countries. She specializes in

Sufism Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, r ...

, Islamic thought, Muslims in America,

Shah Waliullah Quṭb-ud-Dīn Aḥmad Walīullāh Ibn ʿAbd-ur-Raḥīm Ibn Wajīh-ud-Dīn Ibn Muʿaẓẓam Ibn Manṣūr Al-ʿUmarī Ad-Dehlawī ( ar, ‎; 1703–1762), commonly known as Shāh Walīullāh Dehlawī (also Shah Wali Allah), was an Islamic ...

, Islam and Muslims in South Asia, and women and gender in Islam. Hermansen is a Muslim. Hermansen has studied modern Sufi movements and has described movements which hold that Sufism is part of broader, eternal spirituality as "Perennial Movements" and movements which require adherence to Islamic tradition as "Hybrid Movements", utilizing the metaphor of a garden and flowering plants to describe the diversity of modern American Sufi movements. "Transplants" in the garden refers to Sufi groups in the West that primarily attract immigrants from Muslim societies. She has also studied Muslim youth culture and identity. Hermansen's work examined young American Muslims identity

post-9/11 The post-9/11 period is the time after the September 11 attacks, characterized by heightened suspicion of non-Americans in the United States, increased government efforts to address terrorism, and a more aggressive American foreign policy. Pol ...

Works

* ''The Conclusive Argument from God:

Shah Wali Allah Quṭb-ud-Dīn Aḥmad Walīullāh Ibn ʿAbd-ur-Raḥīm Ibn Wajīh-ud-Dīn Ibn Muʿaẓẓam Ibn Manṣūr Al-ʿUmarī Ad-Dehlawī ( ar, ‎; 1703–1762), commonly known as Shāh Walīullāh Dehlawī (also Shah Wali Allah), was an Islamic ...

of Delhi's Hujjat Allah Al-Baligha. Brill, 1996'' * ''Shah Wali Allah's Treatises on Islamic Law.'' Fons Vitae, 2011 * ''Muslima Theology: The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians'', co-edited with Ednan Aslan and Elif Medeni. Peter Lang, 2013.Reviews of ''Muslima Theology The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians'': * Wadud, Amina (2014) Theological Studies. Vol. 75 Issue 4, p. 951 * Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Vol. 105 (2015), pp. 468-471 * ''Islam and Citizenship Education'', co-edited with Ednan Aslan, Springer, 2015. * ''Islam, Religions, and Pluralism in Europe'', co-edited with Ednan Aslan and Ranja Ebrahim, Wiesbaden: Springer 2016. * ''Religion and Violence: Muslim and Christian Theological and Pedagogical Reflections'', co-edited with Ednan Aslan, Wiesbaden: Springer, 2017. * ''Varieties of American Sufism: Islam, Sufi Orders and Authority in a Time of Transition'', co-edited with Elliott Bazzano. Albany, NY SUNY Press, 2020. * ''Religious Diversity at School: Educating for New Pluralistic Contexts.'' Co-edited with Ednan Aslan. Weisbaden: Springer, 2021.

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