Mohammad Salama

Mohammad Salama is Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at George Mason University. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the recipient of two Fulbright Scholar Awards. He has published in scholarly venues that include der Islam, SCTIW Review, JAL, ASJ, ALIF, and AHR. His books include Orientalism, and Intellectual History (I.B. Tauris, 2011), German Colonialism: Race, the Holocaust and Postwar Germany (Columbia UP, 2011); The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism (Bloomsbury, 2018) and Islam and the Culture of Modern Egypt (Cambridge UP, 2019); God's Other Book: The Qur'an between History and Ideology (University of California Press, 2024)