Asad Ahmed (PhD Near Eastern Studies, Princeton 2007) is Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at UC-Berkeley. He is the author of The Religious Elite of the Early Islamic Hijaz (University of Oxford, 2011) and Avicenna’s Deliverance: Logic (Oxford University Press, 2011). He is also the co-editor of The Islamic Scholarly Tradition (Brill, 2010) and Islamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts: Essays in Honor of Professor Patricia Crone (Brill, 2015). He has published several articles on early Islamic social history and pre-modern Islamic intellectual history, with a special focus on philosophy, logic, astronomy, usul al-fiqh, and kalam. His general training also includes Graeco-Arabica, classical Arabic poetry and poetics, hadith and Qur'anic Studies. Ahmed is the editor-in-chief of the Oxford Studies in Post-Classical Islamic Scholarship (OUP) and co-editor of the journal Oriens. He is also co-editor of the Qur'an and Early Islam sections of The Marginalia Review of Books.
