Hussein Abdulsater
Associate Professor and Director, Middle Eastern and North African Studies Minor
Biography
Hussein Ali Abdulsater is associate professor of Arabic Culture and Islamic Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on Islamic intellectual history, particularly the development of theological schools, the formation of sectarian identities and the various modes of rationalism as expressed in Islamic theology and Arabic literature.
Select Publications
The Theology of al-Jāḥiẓ: A Forgotten Islamic Rationalism. Edinburgh University Press (forthcoming).
Shiʿi Doctrines, Muʿtazili Theology: al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā and the Systematization of Imami Discourse. Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
“A Jāḥiẓian Contribution to Reason in Islam? Revisiting al-Muḥāsibī’s Māʾiyyat al-ʿaql,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, 142:1 (2022), 1-32.
“Reason, Grace and the Freedom of Conscience: The Period of Investigation in Classical Islamic Theology,” Studia Islamica, 110:2 (2015), 233-262.
Education
Ph.D., Yale University
M. Phil., Yale University
M.A., American University of Beirut