Dr. Joseph Lumbard

Associate Professor of Quranic Studies

Email

jlumbard@hbku.edu.qa

Office location

C.01.031

Dr. Joseph Lumbard

Associate Professor of Quranic Studies

Educational Qualifications

PhD in Islamic Studies

M.Phil in Religious Studies

Entity

College of Islamic Studies

Program

Master of Arts in Contemporary Islamic Studies

Division

Islamic Studies

Biography

Dr. Joseph Lumbard is Associate Professor of Quranic Studies at CIS. He has previously taught at the American University of Sharjah, Brandeis University, and the American University in Cairo. He also served as Advisor for Interfaith Affairs to the Jordanian Royal Court. He received his PhD in Islamic Studies from Yale University and has studied with scholars in Morocco, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, and Iran. His scholarship contributes to the fields of Islamic philosophical theology, Sufism, and Quranic studies. He served as author, translator, and general editor for The Study Quran (HarperOne 2015), which has been heralded as one of the most important contributions to Islamic studies in the English language. His current research incorporates aspects of Quranic studies, philosophy, and theology to focus upon the development of epistemologies in Islam.

 

PhD in Islamic Studies

Yale University

2003

M.Phil in Religious Studies

Yale University

2001

MA in Religious Studies

George Washington University

1995

BA in English Literature and Religious Studies

George Washington University

1993

  • Qur'anic studies
  • Islamic philosophy
  • Sufism
  • Decolonial and postcolonial studies
  • Islam and the environment

Associate Professor of Quranic Studies

College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University

2018 – Present

Associate Professor

Department of Arabic and Translation Studies, American University of Sharjah

2015 – 2018

Chair of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA

2007 – 2015

Assistant Professor

Classical Islam, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA

2006 – 2015

Advisor for Interfaith Affairs

The Royal Hashemite Court of Jordan, Jordan

2005 – 2006

Arabic Literature Unit Head

American University of Cairo, Egypt

2004 – 2005

Assistant Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies

American University of Cairo, Egypt

2003 – 2005

Lumbard, J.E.B. (2025). Islam, coloniality, and the pedagogy of cognitive liberation in higher education. Teaching in Higher Education, 1–11. 

Lumbard, J.E.B. (2024). Islam and the challenge of epistemic sovereignty. Religions, 15(4), 406. 

Lumbard, J. E. B. (2024). Aḥmad al-Ghazālī’s al-Tajrīd fī Kalimat al-Tawḥīd: “A Primer on the Statement of Tawḥīd”. Journal of Sufi Studies, 13(2), 109-154. 

Lumbard, J.E.B. (2022). Decolonizing Qurʾanic studies. Religions, 13(2), 176. 

Nasr, S.H., Dagli, C.K., Dakake, M.M., Lumbard, J.E.B. & Rustom, M. (2017). The Study Quran: A new translation and commentary. HarperCollins Publishers.