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HERB 9901988–19891983–1988Doctor of Philosophy, Centre for the Study of Religion, University of TorontoAdvanced Arabic for Speakers of Other Languages, Language Centre, University of JordanMaster of Arts, Centre for Religious Studies, University of TorontoBachelor of Arts, Honors Religious Studies / Middle Eastern Studies Option, University of WaterlooBachelor of Mathematics, Honors Computer Science, University of WaterlooACADEMIC APPOINTMENTSUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA 003Director, International StudiesCoordinator, Middle East and Islamic Studies MinorProfessor, International StudiesInterim Coordinator, Middle East and Islamic Studies MinorInterim Director, International StudiesProfessor, Department of Philosophy and ReligionDirector, Graduate Liberal Studies ProgramAssistant Chair, Department of Philosophy and ReligionAssociate Director, Graduate Liberal Studies ProgramAssociate Professor, Department of Philosophy and ReligionGraduate FacultyCo-Coordinator for Middle East Studies MinorAssistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and ReligionPOST-DOCTORAL POSITIONS19971996–1997Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell UniversityPostdoctoral Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies and Department of Afro-American Studies,Harvard UniversityPRE-DOCTORAL 9931990–1992Lecturer, Department of Religion, University of VermontVisiting Instructor, Department of Religion, Middlebury CollegeInstructor, Department for the Study of Religion, University of TorontoInstructor, Division of Humanities, York UniversityTeaching Assistant, Department of Middle East and Islamic Studies and Department of Religious Studies,University of TorontoRESEARCHGRANTS AND AWARDS20132012–2013Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award, University of North Carolina WilmingtonCo-Principal, UNCW Team for Interdisciplinary Global Research for the Defense Intelligence Agency; 264,0002002, 04, 08, 15 Faculty International Travel Grant, University of North Carolina Wilmington2001American Academy of Religion, Research Grant2000Charles L. Cahill Award for Faculty Research and Development, University of North Carolina Wilmington1999National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend1998Summer Research Initiative, University of North Carolina Wilmington1996–1997Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Postdoctoral Fellowship1994–1995Ontario Graduate Scholarship
1991–19941990–1991Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Doctoral FellowshipUniversity of Toronto, Open FellowshipMONOGRAPHSMakers of the Muslim World: Elijah Muhammad (Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2013)Elijah Muhammad and Islam (New York: New York University Press, 2009)The Development of Exegesis in Early Islam: The Debate over the Authenticity of Muslim Literature from the FormativePeriod (Richmond: Curzon Press, 2000) Chapter 2 translated as “Hadis Tenkîdi” trans. Dilek Tikin and İshak Emin Aktepe, Hadis Tetkikleri Dergisi (Journal ofHadith Studies) 16.2 (2018): 107–167.EDITED VOLUMESRoutledge Handbook on Early Islam, edited by Herbert Berg (London: Routledge, 2017)New Perspectives on the Nation of Islam, edited with Dawn-Marie Gibson (New York: Routledge, 2017)Method and Theory in the Study of Islamic Origins, edited by Herbert Berg (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003)Islamic Origins Reconsidered: John Wansbrough and the Study of Early Islam, edited by Herbert Berg; Special Issue ofMethod & Theory in the Study of Religion, 9.1 (1997)ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS AND COLLECTED WORKS“Ibn ʿAbbās (d. 688),” in Handbook of Qur‘ānic Hermeneutics, edited by Georges Tamer (De Gruyter Mouton, forthcoming)“Methodologies in the Study of hadīths: Islamic Origins and the Formation of the Islamic Tradition,” in The OxfordHandbook of Hadith Studies, edited by Mustafa Shah (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming)“Nation of Islam” in Critical Dictionary of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements, edited by James Crossley and AlastairLockhart (2021) xegesis,” in Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Hadith, edited by Daniel Brown (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2020):223–239“Islamic Origins and the Qurʾan,” in The Oxford Handbook of Qur’anic Studies, edited by Mustafa Shah and MuhammadAbdel Haleem (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020): 51–63.“The Qurʾān: Collection and Canonization,” in The Routledge Handbook on Early Islam, edited by Herbert Berg (London:Routledge, 2017): 37–48.“True History in Black and White: Reimagining Origins in the Nation of Islam,” in The Routledge Handbook on Early Islam,edited by Herbert Berg (London: Routledge, 2017): 359–373“Elijah Muhammad’s Prophets: From the White Adam to the Black Jesuses,” Mizan: Journal for the Study of MuslimSocieties and Civilizations, Special issue on The Evolution and Uses of the Stories of the Prophets, edited by MichaelPregill 2.1 (2017) 7/07/09-Mizan-Journal-Vol-2 Issue1 Berg.pdf“Elijah Muhammad’s Christologies: The ‘Historical’ Jesus and the Contemporary Christ,” in New Perspectives on the Nationof Islam, edited by Dawn-Marie Gibson and Herbert Berg (London: Routledge, 2017): 174–189“An Asiatic and Moslem Jesus: Deracination and Reracinationg Jesus by Drew Ali,” in Islamic Studies Today: Essays in Honorof Andrew Rippin, edited by Majid Daneshgar and Walid Saleh (Leiden: Brill, 2017): 277–296“The ‘School’ of Ibn ʿAbbās,” in The Meaning of the Word: Lexicology and Tafsīr, edited by Stephen Burge (Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2015): 67–88“Black Muslims,” in Routledge Handbook of Islam in the West, edited by Roberto Tottoli (London: Routledge, 2014): 123–136nd Revised for Routledge Handbook of Islam in the West, 2 edition, edited by Roberto Tottoli (London: Routledge,forthcoming)“The Divine Sources,” in The Ashgate Research Companion to Islamic Law, edited by Peri Bearman and Ruud Peters(Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2014): 27–40“Failures (of Nerve?) in the Study of Islamic Origins,” in Failure and Nerve in the Study of Religion: Working with DonaldWiebe, edited by William E. Arnal, Willi Braun, Russell T. McCutcheon (London: Equinox, 2012): 112–128“The Essence of Essentializing: A Critical Discourse on ‘Critical Discourse in the Study of Islam’,” Method & Theory in theStudy of Religion 24 (2012): 337–356
“The Needle in the Haystack: Islamic Origins and the Nature of the Early Sources,” in The Coming of the Comforter: When,Where, and to Whom? Studies on the Rise of Islam in Memory of John Wansbrough, edited by Basile Lourié, CarlosA. Segovia, Alessandro Bausi (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2012): 299–330“Elijah Muhammad’s Redeployment of Muhammad: Racialist and Prophetic Interpretations of the Qur’ān,” in Transmissionand Dynamics of the Textual Sources of Islam: Essays in Honour of Harald Motzki, edited by Nicolet Boekhoff-vander Voort, Kees Versteegh, and Joas Wagemakers (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2011): 321–345“The Isnād and the Production of Cultural Memory: Ibn ‘Abbās as a Case Study,” Numen 58 (2011): 259–283“Abbasid Historians’ Portrayals of al-‘Abbās b. ‘Abd al-Muttalib,” Abbasid Studies II: Occasional Papers of the School of Abbasid Studies, Leuven, 28 June – 1 July 2004, edited by John Nawas (Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2010): 13–38“The Historical Muhammad and the Historical Jesus: A Comparison of Scholarly Reinventions and Reinterpretations,” withSarah E. Rollens, Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses, 32.2 (2008): 271–292“Early African American Muslim Movements and the Qur’an,” Journal of Qur’anic Studies, 8.1 (2006): 22–37 Reprinted as “Wczesne ruchy afroamerykańskich muzułmanów i Qur’an,” translated by Julian Jeliński, inNowoczesność Europa islam, edited by Selim Chazbijewicz, Mariusz Turowski, and Karolina Skarbek (Warsaw:Instytut Studiów nad Islamem, 2012): 283–295“Context: Muhammad,” in Blackwell Companion to the Qur’ān, edited by Andrew Rippin (Malden: Blackwell Publishing,2006): 187–204nd Reprinted in The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qurʾān, 2 edition, edited by Andrew Rippin and JawidMojaddedi (Malden: Wiley Blackwell Publishing, 2017): 200 –217“Mythmaking in the African American Muslim Context: The Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, and the MuslimSociety of America,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 73.3 (2005): 685–703 Reprinted in Islam and Modernity edited by Nasar Meer (London: Routledge, 2017) Reprinted as “Mitotwórstwo w kontekście afroamerykańskich ruchów muzułmańskich: Mauryjska ŚwiątyniaWiedzy, Naród Islamu i Amerykańskie Stowarzyszenie Muzułmanów,” translated by Julian Jeliński, inNowoczesność Europa islam, edited by Selim Chazbijewicz, Mariusz Turowski, and Karolina Skarbek (Warsaw:Instytut Studiów nad Islamem, 2012): 267–281“Ibn ‘Abbās in Abbāsid-Era Tafsīr,” in Abbasid Studies: Occasional Papers of the School of Abbasid Studies, Cambridge 6–10July 2002, edited by James E. Montgomery (Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2004): 129–146 Reprinted in Tafsīr: Interpreting the Qurʾān edited by Mustafa Shah (London: Routledge, 2013): 492–508 Translated into Persian by Morteza Karimi-Nia تفسي حورهء عباسيان ابن عباس حر https://www.academia.edu/3126116 ر “Competing Paradigms in the Study of Islamic Origins: Qur’ān 15:89–91 and the Value of Isnāds,” in Methods and Theoriesin the Study of Islamic Origins, edited by Herbert Berg (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003): 259–290“Weaknesses in the Arguments for the Early Dating of tafsīr,” in With Reverence for the Word: Medieval Scriptural Exegesisin Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, edited by Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Barry D. Walfish, and Joseph W. Goering(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003): 329–345“Elijah Muhammad and the Qur’ān: The Evolution of His Tafsīr,” Muslim World 89 (1999): 42–55“Elijah Muhammad: An African American Muslim mufassir?” Arabica: Revue d’études Arabes 45 (1998): 320–346“The Implications of, and Opposition to, the Methods and Theories of John Wansbrough,” Method & Theory in the Study ofReligion 9.1 (1997): 3–22 Reprinted in Method and Theory in the Study of Religion: Twenty Five Years On, edited by Aaron W. Hughes(Leiden: Brill, 2013): 209–277 Reprinted in The Quest for the Historical Muhammad, edited by Ibn Warraq (Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2000):489–509“Tabarī’s Exegesis of the Qur’ānic Term al-kitāb,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 63.4 (1995): 761–774BOOK REVIEWS AND REVIEW ESSAYSReconstruction of a Source of Ibn Isḥāq’s Life of the Prophet and Early Qurʾān Exegesis: A Study of Early Ibn ʿAbbās Traditionsby Harald Motzki, Journal of the American Oriental Society 140.1 (2020):229–230.Gender Hierarchy in the Qurʾān by Karen Bauer; Gender and Muslim Constructions of Exegetical Authority: A Rereading ofthe Classical Genre of Qurʾān Commentary by Aisha Geissinger; and Tafsīr and Islamic Intellectual History: Exploringthe Boundaries of a Genre edited by Andreas Görke and Johanna Pink, Journal of the American Oriental Society138.3 (2018):639–43The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters: Collected Studies in Three Volumes, Volume I by Patricia Crone, The AmericanJournal of Islamic Social Sciences 34.2 (2017): 82–86
Early Islam: A Critical Reconstruction Based on Contemporary Sources edited by Karl-Heinz Ohlig, Journal of the AmericanAcademy of Religion 83.3 (2015): 868–872Review Essay: Muḥammad is Not the Father of Any of Your Men: The Making of the Last Prophet by David S. Powers,Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 40 (2013): 363–372Prophecy and Power: Muhammad and the Qur’an in Light of Comparison by Marilyn Robinson Waldman, Islam & ChristianMuslim Relations (2013): DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2013.815393Theological Approaches to Qur’anic Exegesis: A Practical Comparative-Contrastive Analysis by Hussein Abdul-Raof, Journalof Shi‘a Islamic Studies 6.3 (2013): 343–346A Short History of Atheism by Gavin Hyman; and 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists edited by Russell Blackford andUdo Schüklenk, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 73.1 (2013): 77–80Die Eroberung von Damaskus: Quellenkritische Untersuchung zur Historiographie in klassisch-islamischer Zeit by JensScheiner, Journal of the American Oriental Society 131.3 (2011): 480–482Inventing America’s Worst Family: Eugenics, Islam, and the Fall and Rise of the Tribe of Ishmael by Nathanial Deutsch,Comparative Islamic Studies (2011): 333–335God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World — and Why Their Differences Matter by Stephen Prothero,Journal of the American Academy of Religion 78 (2010): 1194–1197The Canonization of al-Bukhārī and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunnī Hadīth Canon by Jonathan Brown,Bulletin of School of Oriental and African Studies 71.3 (2008): 570–572Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics, and Territory in Islam by Brannon Wheeler, Journal of the American Academy of Religion 75(2007): 156–158The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism by Timothy Marr, Journal of Church and State 49 (2007): 355–357Virtues of the Flesh: Passion and Purity in Early Islamic Jurisprudence by Ze'ev Maghen, International Journal of Middle EastStudies 38 (2006): 453–454Quranic Studies: Sources and Methods of Scriptural Interpretation by John Wansbrough with Foreword, Translations, andExpanded Notes by Andrew Rippin, The Journal of Religion 86.1 (2006): 162–163The Formation of the Classical Tafsīr Tradition: The Qur’ān Commentary of al-Tha‘labī (d. 427/1035) by Walid A. Saleh,International Journal of Middle East Studies 37:4 (2005): 617–618Teaching Islam edited by Brannon M. Wheeler, Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses 33.3–4 (2004): 497–499Jewish and Islamic Law: A Comparative Study of Custom during the Geonic Period by Gideon Libson, Islamic Law and Society11.3 (2004): 408–410Islamic Humanism by Lenn E. Goodman, International Philosophical Quarterly 44.2 (2004): 280–281The Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence: Meccan Fiqh before the Classical Schools by Harald Motzki, International Journal ofMiddle East Studies 36 (2004): 288–289The Essential Max Müller: On Language, Mythology, and Religion edited by Jon R. Stone, Studies in Religion / SciencesReligieuses 32.1–2 (2003): 234The Development of Early Sunnite Hadith Criticism: The Taqdima of Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi (240/854–327/938) by EerikDickinson, International Journal of Middle East Studies 34.4 (2002): 735–736Suffering in the Mu‘tazilite Theology: ‘Abd al-Jabbar’s Teaching on Pain and Divine Justice by Margaretha T. Heemskerk,International Journal of Middle East Studies 34.4 (2002): 740–741Between Bible and Qur’an: The Children of Israel and the Islamic Self-Image by Uri Rubin, Bulletin of School of Oriental andAfrican Studies 65.1 (2002): 140–141Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism by Haideh Moghissi, Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses 30.1 (2001): 116–117The Origins of the Koran: Classic Essays on Islam’s Holy Book edited by Ibn Warraq, Bulletin of School of Oriental and AfricanStudies 62.3 (October 1999): 557–558Mapping Islamic Studies: Genealogy, Continuity and Change edited by Azim Nanji, Journal of the American Oriental Society119.3 (July–September 1999): 544–545Charakter und Authentie der muslimischen Überlieferung über das Leben Muhammeds by Gregor Schoeler, Journal of theAmerican Oriental Society 119.2 (April–June 1999): 315–317A Popular Dictionary of Islam by Ian Richard Netton, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 56.1 (January 1997): 53The Political Aspects of Islamic Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Muhsin S. Mahdi edited by Charles E. Butterworth, Journal ofNear Eastern Studies 56.1 (January 1997): 51–52Studies in Early Muslim Jurisprudence by Norman Calder, Journal of Church and State 37.1 (Winter 1995): 180–181Principles of Sufism by al-Qushayri translated by B.R. Von Schlegell, Journal of Semitic Studies 39.2 (Autumn 1994): 389–390Verbal Idioms of the Qur’ān by Mustansir Mir, Al-Masāq: Studia Arabo-Islamica Mediterranea 7 (1994): 279–282
ENCYCLOPEDIA AND BIBLIOGRAPHIC ENTRIES“Al-‘Abbās b. ‘Abd al-Muttalib,” “Ibn ‘Abbās,” “Ibn Abī al-Najīh,” and “Tawūs b. Kaysān,” in Biographical Dictionary ofIslamic Civilisation and Culture, edited by Mustafa A.A. Shah and Muhammad A.S. Abdel Haleem (London: IBTauris, forthcoming)“African American Islam,” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015): DOI:10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.9“Nation of Islam,” in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism (Malden: Blackwell Publishing,2015): DOI: 10.1002/9781118663202.wberen047“Elijah Muhammad,” in Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, edited by Gerhard Böwering (Princeton: PrincetonUniversity Press, 2013): 375–376“Nation of Islam,” in Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, edited by Gerhard Böwering (Princeton: Princeton UniversityPress, 2013): 388–389“Elijah Muhammad,” in Oxford Bibliographies in Islamic Studies, edited by Tamara Sonn (New York: Oxford University Press,2012)“Nation of Islam,” in Oxford Bibliographies in Islamic Studies, edited by Tamara Sonn (New York: Oxford University Press,2012)“Muhammad, Elijah,” in Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History, edited by Edward E. Curtis IV (New York: Facts On File,2010): II:394-398“Polysemy,” in Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2004): IV:155–158“African American Muslims and the Qur’ān,” in Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2001): I:30–32“Computers and the Qur’ān,” in Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2001): I:391–395TRANSLATIONSMiklos Muranyi, “Eine Qairawāner Unikat in der British Library: Das Samā‘-Werk des ibn al-Qāsim al-‘Utaqī [A UniqueManuscript from in the British Library: The Samā‘-Work of Ibn al-Qāsim al-‘Utaqī],” in Methods and Theories in theStudy of Islamic Origins, edited by Herbert Berg (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003): 325–368Gregor Schoeler, “Grundlagen für eine neue Mohammed-Biographie: Erstellung und Auswertung des Korpus derTraditionen nach ‘Urwa b. al-Zubayr [Foundations for a New Biography of Muhammad: The Production andEvaluation of the Corpus of Traditions according to ‘Urwah b. al-Zubayr],” in Methods and Theories in the Study ofIslamic Origins, edited by Herbert Berg (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003): 21–28A. Fischer, “Eine Qorân-Interpolation [A Quranic Interpolation]” and “Zu Sûra 101,6 [Regarding Qur’ān 101:6], in What theKoran Really Says, edited by Ibn Warraq (Amherst: Prometheus Books, 2002): 436–461 and 462–465PAPERS AT REFEREED CONFERENCES“Roundtable Discussion: The Current State of Qur’anic Studies and Its Future,” International Qur’anic Studies Association atthe American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Atlanta, November 21, 2015“Elijah Muhammad’s Prophets: From the White Adam to the Black Jesuses,” Qiṣāṣ al-anbiyaʾ: The Islamic Tales of theProphets, University of Naples, Italy, October 15, 2015“The Study of Islamic Origins and Nation-of-Islam–ic Origins: Chronocentric Biases and Normative Claims in the Modern andPre-modern Dichotomy” International Association for the History of Religions World Congress 2015, UniversitätErfurt, Germany, August 28, 2015“Islamic Origins and the Nature of the Early Sources,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Atlanta, November 20,2010“The School of Ibn ‘Abbās,” The Meaning of the Word: Lexicology and Tafsīr, Pre-Conference Workshop at the AmericanAcademy of Religion Annual Meeting, Atlanta, October 29, 2010“Early African American Muslims and the Figure of Jesus: Drew Ali’s and Elijah Muhammad’s Formulations of an ‘unIslamic’Muslim Jesus,” Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, New Orleans, November 22, 2009“Te
Routledge Handbook on Early Islam, edited by Herbert Berg (London: Routledge, 2017) . “Eegesis,” in Wiley-Blackwell Companion to the Hadith, edited by Daniel Brown (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2020): 2
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