• Lev Weitz
    Lev Weitz Associate Professor of History; Director and Advisor of Islamic World Studies

    Medieval Middle East; law and society; non-Muslims in Islamic societies
    weitz@cua.edu 

  • Niki Akhavan
    Niki Akhavan Associate Professor and Chair of Media Studies

    New media and transnational political and cultural production; state sponsored and oppositional propaganda; documentary and social change; post-colonial and critical theory; Iranian cultural studies.

  • Jon Anderson
    Jon W. Anderson Emeritus Professor of Anthropology

    Social Anthropology; politics and religion in the Middle East; Islam in the Modern World; new media and information technology in the Muslim world

  • Aaron Butts
    Aaron M. Butts Associate Professor of Semitics

    Quran; Christian-Muslim interactions; Greco-Arabic translation movement; Arabic language and literature.

  • Therese-Anne Druart
    Therese-Anne Druart Professor Emerita, Philosophy

    Medieval Arabic philosophy, metaphysics, and theology; Ibn Sina (Avicenna).

  • Elizabeth Guthrie
    Elizabeth Guthrie Clinicial Instructor in Modern Languages & Literatures

    Modern Standard Arabic.



  • Shawqi Talia
    Shawqi Talia Lecturer in Semitics

    Classical Arabic; translation; Arabic literature.

  • Wilhelmus Valkenberg
    Wilhelmus Valkenberg Ordinary Professor of Theology and Religious Studies

    Christian-Muslim Dialogue; "People of the Book;" tafsir, kalam, tasawwuf.