Abstract
Dr. Sumaiya A. Hamdani received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in the field of Islamic history. Her book, Between Revolution and State: the Construction of Fatimid Legitimacy (2006) examines the development of legal and historical literature by the Ismaili Shi’i Fatimid state. She is a historian and associate professor in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, George Mason University. She has researched in the fields of Shi’i thought, Islamic history, women in Islam, and the construction of identity in Muslim minority communities in South Asia during the colonial and post-colonial periods. Dr. Hamdani has served on advisory boards of the Middle East Studies Association, the American Institute of Yemeni Studies, and the North American Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies, and so on. She also founded and was director of the Islamic Studies program at George Mason University from 2003-2008.
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