Mohammad R. Salama

Mohammad Salama is a Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature and the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at George Mason University. He earned his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and previously held faculty positions at the University of Wisconsin and San Francisco State University. His academic interests include modern and classical Arabic literature, Qur'ānic Studies, and Comparative Cultural Studies in the colonial and post-colonial Arab world. He has published in scholarly venues that include der Islam, PAMLA, JAL, ASJ, ALIF, AHR, Arcade, and Boundary2. His books include Islam, Orientalism, and Intellectual History (I.B. Tauris, 2011), The Qurʾān and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism: From Ṭāhā to Naṣr (Bloomsbury, 2018), Islam and the Culture of Modern Egypt: From the Monarchy to the Republic (Cambridge UP, 2018), and God’s Other Book: The Qurʾān Between History and Ideology (University of California Press, 2024). He is currently working on a new manuscript, “The English Qurʾān: Navigating Translatability and Sacred Vocabulary.”