Faculty Member, Religious Studies
Assistant Professor
About
Nancy Khalek is the William A. Dyer Jr. Assistant Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Religious Studies at Brown University and specializes in Late Antiquity and early Islam. She received her Ph.D. in history from Princeton University in 2006. In addition to her focus on the formative period of Islamic history, other interests include hagiography and historiography in the Byzantine and Islamic worlds, relic and saint veneration, Christian-Muslim dialogue, and the relationship of material culture to religious life. She has conducted field work in Jordan, Greece, Syria, and Turkey. Her first book is entitled Damascus after the Muslim Conquest: Text and Image in Early Islam (Oxford University Press, 2011). She is currently researching the hagiography and veneration of the Companions of Muhammad in the context of claims to orthodoxy and authority in early Islam.
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