Jawid Mojaddedi

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Jawid Mojaddedi

Jawid Mojaddedi
Associate Professor & Graduate
Director
Islamic Studies

Loree Building, Room 104
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About
Jawid Mojaddedi is Associate Professor of Religion at Rutgers University. He is the prize-winning translator of the first two books of Rumi’s Masnavi, the longest single-authored mystical poem ever written. His translation of Book Three is due to be published in 2013 in the same Oxford World’s Classics series as the previous volumes. In addition to his translations, he has also published everal other books, which include The Biographical Tradition in Sufism (RoutledgeCurzon, 2001), and Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature (Routledge, 2003), the second edition of which is due to be published in Fall 2012. His latest monograph, Beyond Dogma: Rumi’s Teachings on Friendship with God and Early Sufi Theories, was published by Oxford University Press in April 2012. Website Research CV

Contact Information

Office Hours, Spring 2013: Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. (or by appointment), Loree Room 104
Phone: 848-932-6821 / 9641
Fax: 732-932-1271

Postal Address:
Department of Religion
School of Arts and Sciences
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
70 Lipman Drive
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8525

Education

Areas of Specialization

Ph.D. and B.A. University of Manchester (1992 - 1998)

Islamic Studies

Books


Beyond Dogma: Rumi's Teachings on Friendship with God and Early Sufi Theories (Oxford University Press, 2012)	Rumi, The Masnavi: Book Two (translator and editor) (Oxford Univ. Press, 2007)	AWARD-WINNING BOOK: Lois Roth Prize for Excellence in Translation of Persian Literature (translator and editor) Rumi, The Masnavi: Book One (Oxford Univ. Press, 2004)	The Biographical Tradition in Sufism: the tabaqat genre from al-Sulami to Jami, Studies in Asian Religion (Routledge Curzon, 2001)

(translator and editor) Classical Islam: A Sourcebook of Religious Literature (with N. Calder and A. Rippin) (Routledge, 2003)	(contributing editor) Studies in Islamic and Middle Eastern Texts and Traditions in Memory of Norman Calder (with editors G. R. Hawting and A. Samely) (Oxford Univ. Press, 2000)