Alyssa Gabbay
Scholar. Educator. Translator.
Alyssa Gabbay is Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she also co-directs the Islamic Studies Research Network. Her areas of research include Indo-Persian Culture, Shi‘ism, and Women and Islam.
Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima
(I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2020)
“… will be seen as a major contribution to the discussion of gendered inheritance in Islam, and the mechanisms whereby Muslim female authority was safeguarded and passed on to new generations.”
-Dominic Brookshaw, University of Oxford
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Additional publications by Alyssa Gabbay, including her first book Islamic Tolerance: Amir Khusraw and Pluralism (Routledge, 2010), can be viewed by clicking the button below.
“Take one step upon your own soul, and the other upon the two worlds. For those who tread the paths of love there is no lovelier way of going.”
From a ghazal by Amir Khusraw Dehlavi. Translated by Alyssa Gabbay.
