NANCY KHALEK

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Biography

Nancy Khalek is the William A. Dyer Jr. Assistant Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Religious Studies 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. Professor Khalek has conducted field work in Jordan, Syria, Greece 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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NANCY KHALEK
William A. Dyer, Jr. Assistant Professor of the Humanities
Religious Studies
Phone: 401-863-3104
E-mail: Nancy_Khalek@brown.edu

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