Positions

Selected Publications

Academic Article

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2018-11-01 Hadis Tenkîdi.  Hadis Tetkikleri Dergisi (Journal of Hadith Studies).  16:107-167. 2018-11-01
2017-07-01 Elijah Muhammad’s Prophets: From the White Adam to the Black Jesuses.  Mizan: Journal for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations.  2. 2017-07-01
2012-10-01 The Essence of Essentializing: A Critical Discourse on ‘Critical Discourse in the Study of Islam’.  Method & Theory in the Study of Religion.  24:337-356. 2012-10-01
2011-10-01 The Isnād and the Production of Cultural Memory: Ibn ‘Abbās as a Case Study.  Numen.  58:259–283. 2011-10-01
2010-10-01 Abbasid Historians’ Portrayals of al-`Abbās b. `Abd al-Muttalib.  Abbasid Studies: Occasional Papers of the School of Abbasid Studies, Leuven 26–30 June 2004.  2010-10-01
2008-04-01 The Historical Muhammad and the Historical Jesus: A Comparison of Scholarly Reinventions and Reinterpretations.  Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses.  32:271-292. 2008-04-01
2006-01-01 Early African American Muslim Movements and the Qur'an.  Journal of Qur'anic Studies.  8:22-37. 2006-01-01
2005-07-01 Mythmaking in the Africam American Muslim Context: The Moorish Science Temple, the Nation of Islam, and the Muslim Society of America.  Journal of the American Academy of Religion.  73:685-703. 2005-07-01
1999-01-01 Elijah Muhammad and the Qur’ān: The Evolution of His Tafsīr.  Muslim World.  89:42-55. 1999-01-01
1998-07-01 Elijah Muhammad: An African American Muslim mufassir?.  Arabica: Revue d’études Arabes.  45:320-346. 1998-07-01
1997-01-01 The Implications of, and Opposition to, the Methods and Theories of John Wansbrough.  Method & Theory in the Study of Religion.  9:3-22. 1997-01-01
1995-10-01 Tabarī’s Exegesis of the Qur’ānic Term al-kitāb.  Journal of the American Academy of Religion.  63:761-774. 1995-10-01

Book

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2017-11-01 Routledge Handbook on Early Islam.  Routledge. 2017-11-01
2009-03-01 Elijah Muhhammad and Islam.  NYU Press. 2009-03-01

Chapter

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2020-05-01 Islamic Origins and the Qur'an -- The Oxford Handbook of Qur’anic Studies,.  Oxford University Press. 2020-05-01
2017-11-01 The Qurʾān: Collection and Canonization -- The Routledge Handbook on Early Islam.  Routledge. 37-48. 2017-11-01
2017-11-01 True History in Black and White: Reimagining Origins in the Nation of Islam -- The Routledge Handbook on Early Islam.  Routledge. 359-373. 2017-11-01
2017-07-01 Elijah Muhammad’s Christologies: The ‘Historical’ Jesus and the Contemporary Christ -- New Perspectives on the Nation of Islam.  Routledge. 174-189. 2017-07-01
2017-05-01 An Asiatic and Moslem Jesus: Deracination and Reracinationg Jesus by Drew Ali -- Islamic Studies Today: Essays in Honor of Andrew Rippin.  Brill. 277-296. 2017-05-01
2015-11-01 The ‘School’ of Ibn ʿAbbās -- The Meaning of the Word: Lexicology and Tafsīr.  Oxford University Press in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies. 67-88. 2015-11-01
2014-10-01 Black Muslims -- Routledge Handbook of Islam in the West.  Routledge. 123-136. 2014-10-01
2014-04-01 The Divine Sources -- The Ashgate Research Companion to Islamic Law.  Ashgate Publishing. 27-40. 2014-04-01
2013-07-01 Theological Approaches to Qur’anic Exegesis: A Practical Comparative-Contrastive Analysis by Hussein Abdul-Raof.  Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies. 343-346. 2013-07-01
2012-12-01 Failures (of Nerve?) in the Study of Islamic Origins.  Failure and Nerve in the Study of Religion. 2012-12-01
2012-02-01 The Needle in the Haystack: Islamic Origins and the Nature of the Early Sources.  The Coming of the Comforter: When, Where, and to Whom? Studies on the Rise of Islam in Memory of John Wansbrough. 299–330. 2012-02-01
2011-01-01 Elijah Muhammad’s Redeployment of Muhammad: Racialist and Prophetic Interpretations of the Qur’ān.  Transmission and Dynamics of the Textual Sources of Islam. 321–345. 2011-01-01
2006-01-01 Context: Muhammad in Blackwell Companion to the Qur'an.  Blackwell Publishing. 187-204. 2006-01-01
2004-01-01 Ibn ‘Abbās in `Abbāsid-Era Tafsīr in Abbasid Studies: Occasional Papers of the School of Abbasid Studies, Cambridge 6–10 July 2002.  Peeters Publishers. 2004-01-01
2003-01-01 Competing Paradigms in Islamic Origins: Qur'an 15:89-91 and the Value of Isnāds” in Methods and Theories in the Study of Islamic Origins,.  Brill Academic Publishing. 259-290. 2003-01-01
2002-01-01 Weaknesses in the Arguments for the Early Dating of tafsir in With Reverence for the Word: Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.  Oxford University Press. 2002-01-01

Document

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2020-01-01 Reconstruction of a Source of Ibn Isḥāq’s Life of the Prophet and Early Qurʾān Exegesis: A Study of Early Ibn ʿAbbās Traditions by Harald Motzki.  , Journal of the American Oriental Society. 229-230. 2020-01-01
2018-07-01 Gender Hierarchy in the Qurʾān by Karen Bauer; Gender and Muslim Constructions of Exegetical Authority: A Rereading of the Classical Genre of Qurʾān Commentary by Aisha Geissinger; and Tafsīr and Islamic Intellectual History: Exploring the Boundaries of a Genre edited by Andreas Görke and Johanna Pink.  Journal of the American Oriental Society. 639-643. 2018-07-01
2017-04-01 The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters: Collected Studies in Three Volumes, Volume I by Patricia Crone.  The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences. 2017-04-01
2015-11-01 African American Islam -- Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion.  Oxford University Press. 2015-11-01
2015-09-01 Nation of Islam -- The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism.  Blackwell Publishing. 2015-09-01
2015-07-01 Early Islam: A Critical Reconstruction Based on Contemporary Sources edited by Karl-Heinz Ohlig.  Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 868-872. 2015-07-01
2013-09-01 Elijah Muhammad -- Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought.  Princeton University Press. 375-376. 2013-09-01
2013-09-01 Nation of Islam -- Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought.  Princeton University Press. 338-389. 2013-09-01
2013-07-01 Review 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. 363-372. 2013-07-01
2013-01-01 A Short History of Atheism by Gavin Hyman; and 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists edited by Russell Blackford and Udo Schüklenk.  International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. 77-80. 2013-01-01
2013-01-01 A Short History of Atheism by Gavin Hyman; and 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists edited by Russell Blackford and Udo Schüklenk.  International Journal for Philosophy of Religion. 77-80. 2013-01-01
2013-01-01 Prophecy and Power: Muhammad and the Qur’an in Light of Comparison by Marilyn Robinson Waldman.  Islam & Christian-Muslim Relations. 2013-01-01
2012-11-01 Nation of Islam.  Oxford Bibliographies in Islamic Studies. 2012-11-01
2011-09-01 Die Eroberung von Damaskus: Quellenkritische Untersuchung zur Historiographie in klassisch-islamischer Zeit by Jens ScheinerDie Eroberung von Damaskus: Quellenkritische Untersuchung zur Historiographie in klassisch-islamischer Zeit by Jens Scheiner.  Journal of the American Oriental Society. 480–482. 2011-09-01
2010-12-01 God 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. 1194-1197. 2010-12-01
2010-10-01 Elijah Muhammad.  Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History. 394-398. 2010-10-01
2010-01-01 Muhammad, Elijah.  Facts on File. 394-398. 2010-01-01
2008-09-01 The 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. 570–572. 2008-09-01
2007-01-01 Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics, and Territory in Islam by Brannon Wheeler..  Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 156–158. 2007-01-01
2007-01-01 The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism by Timothy Marr.  Journal of Church and State. 355–357. 2007-01-01
2006-01-01 Quranic Studies: Sources and Methods of Scriptural Interpretation by John Wansbrough with Foreword, Translations, and Expanded Notes by Andrew Rippin.  The Journal of Religion. 162–163. 2006-01-01
2006-01-01 Virtues of the Flesh: Passion and Purity in Early Islamic Jurisprudence by Ze'ev Maghen.  International Journal of Middle East Studies. 453–454. 2006-01-01
2005-01-01 The 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. 617–618. 2005-01-01
2004-01-01 Islamic Humanism by Lenn E. Goodman.  International Philosophical Quarterly. 280–281. 2004-01-01
2004-01-01 Jewish and Islamic Law: A Comparative Study of Custom during the Geonic Period by Gideon Libson.  Islamic Law and Society. 408–410. 2004-01-01
2004-01-01 Polysemy.  Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān. 155–158. 2004-01-01
2004-01-01 Teaching Islam edited by Brannon M. Wheeler.  Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses. 497–499. 2004-01-01
2004-01-01 The Origins of Islamic Jurisprudence: Meccan Fiqh before the Classical Schools by Harald Motzki.  International Journal of Middle East Studies. 288–289. 2004-01-01
2003-01-01 Gregor Schoeler, Grundlagen für eine neue Mohammed-Biographie: Erstellung und Auswertung des Korpus der Traditionen nach ‘Urwa b. al-Zubayr [Foundations for a New Biography of Muhammad: The Production and Evaluation of the Corpus of Traditions according to ‘Urwah b. al-Zubayr].  Methods and Theories in the Study of Islamic Origins. 21–28. 2003-01-01
2003-01-01 Method and Theory in the Study of Islamic Origins.  Brill Publishers. 2003-01-01
2003-01-01 Miklos Muranyi, Eine Qairawāner Unikat in der British Library: Das Samā`-Werk des ibn al-Qāsim al-‘Utaqī [A Unique Manuscript from in the British Library: The Samā‘-Work of Ibn al-Qāsim al-‘Utaqī].  Methods and Theories in the Study of Islamic Origins. 325–368. 2003-01-01
2003-01-01 The Essential Max Müller: On Language, Mythology, and Religion edited by Jon R. Stone.  Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses. 234. 2003-01-01
2002-01-01 A. Fischer, Eine Qorân-Interpolation [A Quranic Interpolation].  What the Koran Really Says. 436–461. 2002-01-01
2002-01-01 A. Fischer, Zu Sûra 101,6 [Regarding Qur’ān 101:6].  What the Koran Really Says. 462–465. 2002-01-01
2002-01-01 Between Bible and Qur’an: The Children of Israel and the Islamic Self-Image by Uri Rubin.  Bulletin of School of Oriental and African Studies. 140–141. 2002-01-01
2002-01-01 Suffering 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. 740–741. 2002-01-01
2002-01-01 The Development of Early Sunnite Hadith Criticism: The Taqdima of Ibn Abi Hatim al-Razi (240/854–327/938) by Eerik Dickinson.  International Journal of Middle East Studies. 735–736. 2002-01-01
2001-01-01 African American Muslims and the Qur’ān.  Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān. 30–32. 2001-01-01
2001-01-01 Computers and the Qur’ān.  Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān. 391–395. 2001-01-01
2001-01-01 Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism by Haideh Moghissi.  Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses. 116–117. 2001-01-01
2000-01-01 The Development of Exegesis in Early Islam: The Debate over the Authenticity of Muslim Lterature from the Formative Period.  Curzon Press. 2000-01-01
1999-01-01 Charakter und Authentie der muslimischen Überlieferung über das Leben Muhammeds by Gregor Schoeler.  Journal of the American Oriental Society. 315–317. 1999-01-01
1999-01-01 Mapping Islamic Studies: Genealogy, Continuity and Change edited by Azim Nanji.  Journal of the American Oriental Society. 544–545. 1999-01-01
1999-01-01 The Origins of the Koran: Classic Essays on Islam’s Holy Book, edited by Ibn Warraq.  Bulletin of School of Oriental and African Studies. 557–558. 1999-01-01
1997-01-01 A Popular Dictionary of Islam by Ian Richard Netton.  Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 53. 1997-01-01
1997-01-01 Islamic Origins Reconsidered: John Wansbrough and the Study of Early Islam.  Special Issue of Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. 1997-01-01
1997-01-01 The Political Aspects of Islamic Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Muhsin S. Mahdi edited by Charles E. Butterworth.  Journal of Near Eastern Studies. 51–52. 1997-01-01
1995-01-01 Studies in Early Muslim Jurisprudence by Norman Calder.  Journal of Church and State. 180–181. 1995-01-01
1994-01-01 Principles of Sufism by al-Qushayri translated by B.R. Von Schlegell.  Journal of Semitic Studies. 389–390. 1994-01-01
1994-01-01 Verbal Idioms of the Qur’ān by Mustansir Mir.  Al-Masāq: Studia Arabo-Islamica Mediterranea. 279–282. 1994-01-01

Report

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2012-11-01 Elijah Muhammad.  Oxford Bibliographies in Islamic Studies. 2012-11-01

Presentations

Research Overview

  • Islamic Origins Nation of Islam

    • Co-principal Investigator On

    Investigator On

  • Teaching Grant 2011-06-01 - 2011-08-01
  • Research Grant 2001-06-01 - 2001-08-01
  • Charles L. Cahill Award for Faculty Research and Development 2000-06-01 - 2000-08-01
  • Summer Stipend 1999-06-01 - 1999-08-01
  • Summer Research Initiative 1998-06-01 - 1998-09-01
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship 1996-09-01 - 1997-08-01

    • Teaching Overview

  • Islam Western Religions Asian Religions Theories of Religion Globalized Religion Atheism and Unbelief Psychology of Religion Evil and Suffering International / Global Studies Global Populism Global Capitalism Global Healthcare

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  • Herbert Berg