Asma Afsaruddin is Class of 1950 Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor and Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author and editor of eight books, including The First Muslims: History and Memory (2008); her award-winning Striving in the Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought (OUP, 2013); Contemporary Issues in Islam (2015); and Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know (OUP, 2022). She was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2005 and was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in 2019.
"""The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women presents a timely and rich contribution that will leave a lasting impact on scholars and teachers in multiple disciplines connected to the study of religion, Islam, and women."" -- Raissa A. von Doetinchem de Rande, The University of Chicago Divinity School"