Nathan Spannaus

Nathan Spannaus is a specialist in Islamic intellectual history and religious thought. He is a graduate of McGill University's Institute of Islamic Studies and Harvard's Deparment of Near Eastern Languages aand Civilizations, and he has held positions at Princeton and Oxford. His work has appeared in Islamic Law and Society, Muslim World, Arabica , and Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient , and he has contributed to the Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology , the Encyclopedia...See more

Nathan Spannaus is a specialist in Islamic intellectual history and religious thought. He is a graduate of McGill University's Institute of Islamic Studies and Harvard's Deparment of Near Eastern Languages aand Civilizations, and he has held positions at Princeton and Oxford. His work has appeared in Islamic Law and Society, Muslim World, Arabica , and Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient , and he has contributed to the Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology , the Encyclopedia of Islam and the two-volume Modern Islamic Authority and Social Change . He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in Islamic philosophy at University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. See less