Suleiman Ali Mourad
Suleiman Ali Mourad is a Lebanese religious studies scholar and a scholar of Quranic studies. He is Myra M. Sampson Professor of Religion and Middle East Studies and the chair of Department of Religion at Smith College. His work explores Islamic history, religious thought, Jerusalem, Jihad ideology, and how modernity has transformed Muslims' views on their history, legal traditions, and intellectual heritage.
In 2025, he was awarded a Senior Fellowship of the Zukunftskollegs at the University of Konstanz.
Works
; As author Ibn Asakir of Damascus: Champion of Sunni Islam at the Time of the Crusades The Mosaic of Islam: A Conversation with Perry Anderson The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period with James LindsayEarly Islam Between Myth and History: Al-Hasan al-Basri and the Formation of His Legacy in Classical Islamic Scholarship; As editor Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period: An Anthology with James E. LindsayRoutledge Handbook on Jerusalem with Naomi Koltun-Fromm and Bedross Der MatossianIn the House of Understanding: Histories in Memory of Kamal Salibi with Abdulrahim Abu-Husayn and Tarif KhalidiJerusalem: Idea and Reality with Tamar Mayer