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Ruqayya Yasmine Khan  Department of Religion, Trinity University
Text Box: Contact Information rkhan@trinity.edu Ruqayya Yasmine Khan Associate Professor of Islamic Studies Department of Religion Trinity University One Trinity Place San Antonio, TX 78212 210 999-8428 (Direct) 210 999-8426 (Religion Office) Office Hours: By appointment Resume Text Box: Ruqayya Yasmine Khan is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies. Born in Pakistan, with her childhood in Kenya, Africa, she and her family moved to the US when she was a young girl. Dr. Khan received all her education on the East Coast. She undertook her graduate training at the University of Pennsylvania, where she received both her M.A. and Ph.D. She also has spent time studying at the American University of Cairo in Egypt. Prior to her arrival at Trinity University in 2003, Dr. Khan was a Visiting Asst. Professor first at Swarthmore College and then subsequently at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She recently was awarded a Fulbright grant for Spring, 2009 with the Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia Hercegovina. Dr. Khan’s research interests include Arabic Literary Studies, Qur’anic Studies, Psychology of Religion, Progressive Islamic Theologies as well as Religion & Childhood. Her book Self and Secrecy in Early Islam was published in September, 2008 with the University of South Carolina Press (Studies in Comparative Religion, Frederick M. Denny, General Editor). Among the articles and book chapters she has published are the following: "'The Child on Loan': Childhood, Children and Adolescents in Islamic Studies," in Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World¹s Religious Traditions, November, 2005; "On the Significance of Secrecy in the Medieval Arabic Romances," Journal of Arabic Literature, January, 2001; “Sacrifice and Substitution in the Classical Arabic Love Story of al-Muraqqish al-Akbar," History of Religions, August, 1999. At Trinity University, Dr. Khan has taught Religion and Childhood; Islam, Judaism and Christianity; The Islamic Tradition; Islamic Literatures; Women in Islam