Ruqayya Yasmine Khan (Trinity University)

Ruqayya Yasmine Khan
Associate Professor of Islamic Studies
Department of Religion
Trinity University
One Trinity Place
San Antonio, TX  78112  USA

phones: 210-999-8428 (direct)
        210-999-8426 (Religion Office)
fax:    210-999-7843
email:  rkhan@trinity.edu

Description of work:
Field: Islamic Studies

Research Interests: Islam, South Asia, Middle East; Qur'anic Studies;
Arabic Literature, Urdu Literature, Islamic Literature

Sample Publications:

Book:
Self and Secrecy in Early Islam, The University of South Carolina Press 
(Studies in Comparative Religion, Frederick M. Denny, General Editor), 
2008.

Articles/Chapters:
"Pastoralism and the 'wild man' in an early Arabic romance," Middle 
Eastern Literatures, August, 2008.

"'The child on loan': childhood, children and adolescents in Islamic 
studies," in Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives 
from the world's religious traditions, November, 2005

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