Travis E. Zadeh

Travis Zadeh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University, where he teaches and writes about Islamic intellectual and cultural history. His areas of interest include frontiers and early conversion, Qur’anic studies, eschatology, mythology, and mysticism, pilgrimage and sacred geography, encyclopedism and cosmography, classical Arabic and Persian literary traditions, material and visual cultures, Islamic studies in the digital humanities, vernacularity and language politics, comparative theories of language and translation, secularism, colonialism, and Islamic reform, science, magic, miracles, and philosophies of the marvelous.