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Provost
Professor of Cultural Studies and Islamic Studies
B.A. Vassar
M.Div. St. Vladimir’s Eastern Orthodox Seminary
Dr. Théol. University of Bern, Switzerland
If you would like to schedule an appointment with Dr. Farajajé, please email Justin K. Waters.
Dr. Farajajé's current areas of scholarly focus are new media; Shi’a studies; intersectionality; post-colonial/decolonial/transmodern theory; Islamic cultural studies and critical theory; Islamic feminisms; Andalusian studies; Bosniak Islam; Alevi studies; history of Sufism in Turkey; history of Islam in India; Hindu-Muslim relations; histories of Mizrahim, Sefardim, and other Jewish communities; Jewish and Islamic mysticism; Eastern Orthodox and Islamic mysticism (Hesychasm and tasawwuf); ritual music; Islamic environmental studies; bodies and performances of embodiment / genders / sexualities / identities through ritual, constructions of ritual space, environmental politics and aesthetics within these religious contexts; politics of identity; global HIV; video-technologies (co-directed with David Dezern the film, “Oceans of Mercy: African American Sufi Muslims in the San Francisco Bay Area”); popular culture and Islam; and notions of the “border” and of fluidities.
The recipient of numerous awards and honors, Farajajé has pioneered work that helps faith communities of color shape compassionate responses to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. His approach to the study of Islam is grounded in postcolonial/Diaspora studies, cultural studies, critical theory and video technologies. He brings these hermeneutical tools to an investigation of the history of Islam and religious diversity, the study of the development of Islamophobia, questions of identity and diversity in Muslim communities, and helping create a field of Islamic Cultural Studies.
Farajajé serves on the GTU Core Doctoral Faculty in the area of Cultural and Historical Studies of Religions and is the Senior Research Analyst at the GTU's Center for Islamic Studies.
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Full-time Core Faculty:
Rev. Dr. Dorsey Blake
Dr. Ibrahim
Abdurrahman Farajajé
Rev. Dr.
Gabriella Lettini
Rev. Dr.
Rebecca Ann Parker
Visiting Core Faculty:
Dr. Ghazala Anwar
Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock
Ayize Jama Everett, M.A.
Rev. Michelle Favreault
Rev. Kurt Kuhwald
Rev. Dr. Susan Ritchie
Dr. Jo Sanzgiri
Research Faculty & Visiting Minister
Adjunct Faculty
Student Teachers
Intern Supervisors
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