Michael Sells
Michael Sells | |
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| Born | Michael Anthony Sells May 8, 1949 |
| Citizenship | American |
| Occupations | Professor, author |
| Title | John Henry Barrows Professor |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Chicago Divinity School 1978-82 |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Religion, literature |
| Sub-discipline | Islamic History and Literature, Comparative Literature, Quranic studies |
| Institutions | Divinity School professor |
| Main interests | Sufism, Arabic and Islamic love poetry, mysticism (Greek, Islamic, Christian, and Jewish), and religion and violence |
| Notable works | Approaching the Qur'an: the Early Revelations; The Bridge Betrayed: Religion and Genocide in Bosnia; The New Crusades: Constructing the Muslim Enemy |
| Notable ideas | Christoslavism |
Michael Anthony Sells (born May 8, 1949) is John Henry Barrows Professor of Islamic History and Literature in the Divinity School and in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. Michael Sells studies and teaches in the areas of Qur'anic studies, Sufism, Arabic and Islamic love poetry, mysticism (Greek, Islamic, Christian, and Jewish), and religion and violence.