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The ISRME aims to encourage scholarship, academic collaboration and awareness of the diversity of religious life in the Middle East, and the ideas, belief systems, rituals, histories and social structures of religious communities. The Institute particularly encourages scholarship on small, emergent, or threatened religious communities or movements and the interaction between such movements and majority or established traditions.
I am working to build a network of scholars and friends of the Institute throughout the Middle East and beyond, and I welcome your partnership. If you would like to participate at any level in the work of the ISRME, please consider signing on as a member. Membership, at this stage, carries only intangible benefits, but it also costs nothing and offers the satisfaction of having been here at the beginnings.
Daniel Brown is the author of Rethinking Tradition in Modern Islamic Thought (Cambridge) and A New Introduction to Islam (Wiley-Blackwell). He was awarded his doctorate in Islamic Studies from the University of Chicago, has taught at Mount Holyoke College and Smith College and has been a visiting scholar at the Islamic University in Islamabad, the Institute of Islamic Culture in Lahore and Cairo University. His interests include modern Muslim intellectual history, Hadith studies, and Muslim-Christian relations. He is currently working on an intellectual biography of Kenneth Cragg.
