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Ian Almond

{{Short description|Literary scholar}}

{{BLP sources|date=November 2013}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}}

{{Use British English|date=June 2017}}

{{Infobox academic

| name = Ian Almond

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1969}}

| birth_place = Skipton

| nationality = English

| alma_mater = Edinburgh University

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Ian Almond (born 1969) is a literary scholar. He is professor of world literature at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar.{{Cite web |department=Faculty Directory |website=Georgetown University |title=Ian Almond |url=https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014TX6WAAW/ian-almond |access-date=2021-10-25}}

Biography

Ian Almond was born in 1969 in Skipton, England. He received his PhD in literature at Edinburgh University, and worked for University of Bari in Italy, Erciyes University and Boğaziçi University in Turkey, Frei University{{which?|date=June 2024}} in Germany, and Georgia State University in the US, before coming to Georgetown University School of Foreign Service Qatar in 2013.

Almond specializes in post-colonial theory, South Asian literature, representations of Islam and world literature. His works primarily focus on Islam. He is interested in showing how Islam has been an overlooked factor in the formation of Europe. His book Two Faiths, One Banner: When Muslims marched with Christians across Europe's battlegrounds is a history of Muslim-Christian military alliances in Europe.{{Cite book |last=Almond |first=Ian |title=Two Faiths, One Banner: When Muslims Marched with Christians Across Europe's Battlegrounds |date=2009 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674061767}}

Almond theorizes in History of Islam in German Thought from Leibniz to Nietzsche that Marx, Hegel, Nietzsche and Kant knew more about Islam than conventionally assumed. In his work on philosophy, he argues that many postmodernists rely on Orientalist tropes in writing about Islam. His works seek to explore the repressed spirituality of allegedly secular authors.

He is the author of five books. His books have been translated into several languages, including Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Korean, Indonesian and Bosnian.

The Arabic translation of his book Sufism and Deconstruction was shortlisted among seven other books for the Sheikh Zayed Book Prize.{{Cite web |title=Longlist announcements of Sheikh Zayed Book Award continue |website=Sheikh Zayed Book Award |url=http://zayedaward.ae/portal/en/readnew.aspx?id=124 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202233653/http://zayedaward.ae/portal/en/readnew.aspx?id=124 |archive-date=2 December 2013 |access-date=17 September 2013}}

Selected publications

  • {{cite book |first=Ian |last=Almond |title=Sufism and Deconstruction: A Comparative Study of Derrida and Ibn ʻArabi |publisher=Routledge |year=2004 |isbn=9780415320436 |ref=none}}{{cite journal |journal=Philosophy East and West |volume=62 |issue=2 |date=April 2012 |pages=270–273 |first=Recep |last=Alpyağil |title=Reviewed Work: Sufism and Deconstruction: A Comparative Study of Derrida and Ibn 'Arabi by Ian Almond |doi=10.1353/pew.2012.0018 |jstor=41426851}}{{cite journal |journal=Literature and Theology |volume=20 |issue=4 |date=December 2006 |pages=480–482 |title=Reviewed Work: Sufism and Deconstruction: A Comparative Study of Derrida and Ibn 'Arabi by Ian Almond |first=Sajjad H. |last=Rizvi |doi=10.1093/litthe/frl051 |jstor=23926978}}{{cite journal |journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies |volume=38 |issue=1 |date=February 2006 |pages=164–165 |doi=10.1017/S0020743806412289 |title=IAN ALMOND Sufism and Deconstruction: A Comparative Study of Derrida and IbnArabi, Routledge Studies in Religion, vol. 6 (London: Routledge, 2004). Pp. 184. £55 |first=James W. |last=Morris}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Almond |first=Ian |title=The new Orientalists: postmodern representations of Islam from Foucault to Baudrillard |publisher=I. B. Tauris |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-84511-398-8 |location=London |ref=none}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Almond |first=Ian |title=Two Faiths, One Banner: When Muslims Marched with Christians Across Europe's Battlegrounds |date=2009 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=9780674061767 |ref=none}}{{cite journal |title=Reviewed Work: Two Faiths, One Banner: When Muslims Marched with Christians across Europe's Battlegrounds IAN ALMOND |first=James |last=Muldoon |jstor=23011755 |journal=Journal of World History |volume=22 |issue=3 |date=September 2011 |pages=595–597|doi=10.1353/jwh.2011.0083 }}{{cite journal |journal=British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies |volume=37 |issue=3: Heterodox Movements in the Contemporary Islamic World: Alevis, Yezidis and Ahmadis |date=December 2010 |pages=456–457 |first=Ersun |last=Kurtuluş |title= Two Faiths, One Banner – When Muslims Marched with Christians across Europe's Battlegrounds |doi=10.1080/13530194.2010.524444}}{{cite journal |journal=The Journal of Religion |volume=90 |issue=1 |date=January 2010 |pages=94–96 |title=Reviewed Work: Two Faiths, One Banner: When Muslims Marched with Christians across Europe's Battlegrounds by Almond, Ian |first=Kaya |last=Şahin |doi=10.1086/649987 |jstor=10.1086/649987}}
  • {{cite book |title=History of Islam in German Thought from Leibniz to Nietzsche |location=New York |publisher=Routledge |year=2010 |isbn=9780415995191 |first=Ian |last=Almond |oclc=229019549}}{{Cite journal |last=Kukkonen |first=Taneli |date=May 2012 |title=History of Islam in German Thought: From Leibniz to Nietzsche * By IAN ALMOND |journal=Journal of Islamic Studies |language=en |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=269–272 |doi=10.1093/jis/ets006 |issn=0955-2340 |jstor=26201057}}{{cite journal |journal=The Modern Language Review |volume=107 |issue=3 |date=July 2012 |pages=1004–1006 |title=Reviewed Work: History of Islam in German Thought: From Leibniz to Nietzsche by Ian Almond|first=James |last=Hodkinson |jstor=10.5699/modelangrevi.107.3.1004 |doi=10.5699/modelangrevi.107.3.1004}}{{cite journal |journal=Monatshefte |volume=102 |issue=4 |date=Winter 2010 |pages=602–604 |first=Kamakshi P. |last=Murti |doi=10.1353/mon.2010.0049 |title=History of Islam in German Thought: From Leibniz to Nietzsche. By Ian Almond. New York: Routledge, 2009. vii + 199 pages. $95.00.}}{{cite journal |journal=Literature and Theology |volume=25 |issue=1: Poetry and Belief |date=March 2011 |pages=111–113 |title= History of Islam in German Thought: From Leibniz to Nietzsche. By Ian Almond. |first= Arthur |last=Bradley |jstor=23927256 |doi=10.1093/litthe/frq061}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Almond |first=Ian |title=The thought of Nirad C. Chaudhuri: Islam, empire, and loss |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2015 |isbn=978-1-107-09443-7 |location=New York|ref=none}}
  • {{Cite book |last=Almond |first=Ian |title=World literature decentered: beyond the "West" through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal |publisher=Routledge |year=2021 |isbn=978-0-367-68337-5 |series=Routledge studies in comparative literature |location=New York, NY|ref=none}}

References

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External links

  • [https://scholar.google.com.tr/citations?user=-FIXwXYAAAAJ&hl=en Google scholar page]
  • http://www.english.gsu.edu/9694.html
  • https://www1-georgetown.academia.edu/IanAlmond
  • http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674061767

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