We are very pleased to announce that Sarah Bowen Savant has been promoted to full professor!
Sarah Bowen Savant is a cultural historian specialising in early Islam, the study of religion, historiography, late antique Iran and Iraq and prophetic biography. She is also the Principle Investigator of
KITAB Project.
Professor Savant received her MA from the University of Chicago and her PhD from Harvard University. Prior to joining AKU-ISMC in 2007, she was a Sultan Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran: Tradition, Memory, and Conversion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), which won the Saidi-Sirjani Book Award, given by the International Society for Iranian Studies on behalf of the Persian Heritage Foundation.
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We are very pleased to announce that Sarah Bowen Savant has been promoted to full professor!
Sarah Bowen Savant is a cultural historian specialising in early Islam, the study of religion, historiography, late antique Iran and Iraq and prophetic biography. She is also the Principle Investigator of
KITAB Project.
Professor Savant received her MA from the University of Chicago and her PhD from Harvard University. Prior to joining AKU-ISMC in 2007, she was a Sultan Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran: Tradition, Memory, and Conversion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), which won the Saidi-Sirjani Book Award, given by the International Society for Iranian Studies on behalf of the Persian Heritage Foundation.
For further information about Professor Savant, please click
here.