| | | | Juan E. Campo
is an associate professor of Religious Studies at the University
of California at Santa Barbara. He has served as co-director of the UCSB Center
for Middle East Studies and is currently director of the graduate program in
Religious Studies. He specializes in the comparative study of Islam, particularly
in the Middle East and South Asia, teaching courses on Islamic tradition; religion,
politics and society in the Persian Gulf region; Islamic mysticism; modern
Islamic movements; Islam in India; the Qur’an; Arabic religious texts;
as well as introductory courses on the study of religion, religion and Western
civilization, and Middle Eastern studies. His research has taken him to Egypt,
where he has lived for more than five years, including two years as the director
of the UC Education Abroad Program study center at American University in Cairo,
and to India, where he served as director of the UC Education Abroad Program’s
study centers in Delhi and Hyderabad. Campo’s book, The Other Sides
of Paradise: Explorations in the Religious Meanings of Domestic Space in Islam, won
the American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in 1991. Topics
examined in other publications and lectures include modern Islamic movements,
the history of Islam in the Middle East, Hinduism and Islam, and the growth
of the Muslim community in Southern California. Currently, Campo is serving
as editor in chief for the Facts on File Encyclopedia of Islam, and
writing a book entitled Pilgrimages in Modernity — a comparative look
at Muslim, Hindu, and Christian pilgrimages in the modern world.He holds
a B.A. in history from the University of Southern California and an M.A. and
PhD from the University of Chicago’s History of Religions Program.
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