Sponsored by the Study of Islam Section, American Academy of Religion: Below is a list of positions in Islamic studies starting in 2013. Applications for these positions come due in Fall 2012 or Spring 2013. You should also consult the employment listings compiled by the Middle East Studies Association.
Alphabetical List of Job Postings | Chronological List of Job Postings (in order of receipt)
- Florida International University | Comparative Politics – Middle East
- Allegheny College | Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies
- American University in Cairo | Assistant Professor of Contemporary Literature
- American University in Dubai | Assistant / Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies
- American University in Dubai | Assistant / Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies
- American University of Beirut | Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages-Multiple positions
- American University of Beirut | Full-time, open rank position in Sociology
- American University of Sharjah | Chair of International Relations
- Appalachian State University | Leon Levine Distinguished Professor of Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies
- Arizona State University | Postdoctoral Fellowship for Scholar of North Africa, 2012-13
- Ball State University | Assistant Professor: History
- Bard College | Cultural Anthropology (Assistant Professor)
- Bard College | Middle Eastern History – Assistant professor, Tenure Track
- Bowdoin College | International Relations (Assistant Professor/Instructor)
- Bradley University | Full-time Visiting Instructor or Assistant Professor
- Brookings Doha Center/Qatar University | Joint Fellowship
- Brown University | History of the Middle East Post 1500 (Tenure-Track Assistant Professor)
- Brown University | Postdoctoral Fellowship in International Humanities & Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern Arab Culture and Society
- Bucknell University | Modern European and Middle Eastern History (Assistant Professor)
- Bucknell University | Tenure Track (Open Rank) Professor of International Relations
- California State University, Northridge | Tenure-track assistant professor, Feminist Legal/Public Policy and/or Human Rights issues
- Carleton College | One-year leave replacement position in Islamic Studies
- Carleton College | Socio-Cultural Anthropology (Assistant Professor)
- Case Western Reserve University | Assistant Professor in Islam Studies
- Catholic University of America | Medieval Islam (Assistant Professor)
- Centre College | Religion (Islam) Tenure-track Assistant Professor
- Claremont Graduate University | Islamic Studies (Chaired Professorship)
- Claremont Graduate University | Open Rank, Islamic Studies
- Clayton State University | Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern and/or North African History
- Clemson University | Islamic Studies and Global Studies
- Coastal Carolina University | Assistant Professor of Religious Studies (Islam)
- Columbia University | Assistant Professor in the study of Islam
- Columbia University | Islamic Studies, Assistant Professor
- Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) | Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center Research Fellowship Program
- Council on International Educational Exchange | Regional Director of Operations-Middle East
- CSID Tunis | Executive Director
- Dartmouth College | Arabic Language, Literature, and Culture (Assistant Professor tenure track)
- Dublin City University, Mater Dei Institute of Education | Visiting Lecturer in Islamic Studies
- Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe | 10 Postdoctoral Fellowships for the academic year 2013/14
- Evergreen State College | Comparative Religion Faculty Position
- Exeter | Lecturer and Senior Lecturer
- FAU Erlangen | Junior Research Group Leader Islamic-Religious Studies/Nachwuchsgruppenleitung Islamisch-Religiöse Studien
- Freie Universität Berlin | Post-doctoral research associate in Bible in Arabic
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | Post-doc and doctoral positions
- Georg Eckert Institut for International Textbook Research | Postdoctoral Fellowship
- George Washington University | Middle East and North Africa Librarian (Three year limited term appointment, full-time)
- George Washington University | Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Middle East Studies
- Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar | Middle East History (Assistant, Associate or Full Professor)
- Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar | Post-Doctoral Fellowship on the Middle East
- Georgetown University | Assistant, Associate or Full Professor, Middle East History
- Georgetown University | Politics of the Arab World (Assistant Professor)
- Georgetown University | Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship
- Goethe University | Intellectual history of Islam: Islamic philosophy, ethics and mysticism in Islamic Studies (Full Professorship)
- Hankuk University of Foreign Studies | Assistant (Associate/Full) Professor(s) in Middle East Economy
- Hartford Seminary | Assistant Professor of Islamic Scriptures and Fiqh
- Hartford Seminary | Professor of Islamic Law and Ethics and Director of the Duncan Black Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations
- Harvard University | Center for Middle Eastern Studies Outreach Program Director
- Human Rights Watch | Research on Yemen and Kuwait
- Indiana University – Pennsylvania | Assistant Professor (Middle East History)
- Indiana University Bloomington | Medieval or Early Modern Jewish Civilizations (Assistant Professor)
- Indiana University of Pennsylvania | Assistant Professor, Middle East History
- Indiana University | Assistant Professor in Modern (1800-present) or Contemporary Islam
- Ipek University | One Year Post-doctoral Fellowship
- Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University | Head of International Research and Study Center of Islamic Economics and Finance
- Istanbul Sehir University | Comparative Politics and International Relations (Middle East Politics)
- Koç University | Full-time Faculty Position
- Lafayette College | Assistant Professor Department of Religious Studies
- Leibniz Institute of European History | Abteilung für Abendländische Religionsgeschichte
- Leiden University | Assistant Professorship in Modern Middle-Eastern Studies
- Max van Berchem Foundation | Post Doctoral Fellowships
- McGill University, Institute of Islamic Studies | Ottoman and Turkish Studies (Tenure Track)
- Miami University | Assistant Professor (The culture and history of Islam)
- Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore | Short Term & Post Doctoral Research Positions
- Monterey Institute of International Studies | Arabic Studies (Assistant Professor)
- Mount Holyoke College | Islam and Religion (Visiting Assistant Professor)
- Muslim Advocates | Communications Director and Development Director
- National University of Singapore | Post-doctoral fellowships and short-term project-oriented research openings
- New York University | Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
- New York University | Modern Middle Eastern History (Open Rank)
- Northwestern University | Associate or Full Professor – Islam in African Societies
- Northwestern University | Postdoctoral Fellowship Search in the Department of Middle East and North Africa Studies
- Ohio State University | Department Chair, Tenured Full or Associate Professor
- Open Society Foundations | Middle East-North Africa Initiatives (Mena)/ Director for Arab Regional Office
- Paris School of International Affairs | Assistant Professor in global economic and comparative law
- Paris School of International Affairs | Visiting Faculty Position
- Pennsylvania State University | Chaiken Family Chair in Jewish Studies
- Pennsylvania State University | History of the Modern Middle East (Open Rank Tenure Track)
- Princeton University | 2013-14 Fellowship Competition
- Princeton University | Full-time position specializing in pre-modern Persia
- Princeton University | Gruss-Lipper Visiting Scholar in Middle East Policy Studies
- Princeton University | History of Islamic North Africa & the Mediterranean (Assistant Professor)
- Princeton University | Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Near Eastern Studies
- Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies, Center of Governance and Public Policy | Assistant or Associate Professor (Research)
- Qatar University | Assistant/Associate Professor in Islamic History
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey | Middle Eastern Studies (Lecturer)
- Salem State University | Tenure-track assistant professor (Middle Eastern History and Islamic World)
- Salisbury University | Assistant Professor of Philosophy (Islamic Philosophy)
- San Francisco State University | Full-Time, Non-Tenure Track Lecturer
- Seton Hall University | Assistant Professor of International Relations Theory and Research
- Singapore University of Technolgy and Design | Lecturer / Teaching Fellow (HASS)
- Skidmore College | Tenure-track Assistant Professor in International Affairs
- Stanford University | One-year postdoctoral position, “Literary Cultures of Muslim South Asia.”
- Stanford University | Postdoctoral Fellowship: Literary Cultures of Muslim South Asia
- Swarthmore College | Modern Middle Eastern History (Assistant Professor-3 year position)
- Tel Aviv University | Modern Middle Eastern History (Tenure Track)
- Texas A&M University | International Politics of the Arab Region (Tenure Track Assistant Professor)
- The American University in Cairo | Sociology, open-rank position
- The American University of Beirut | Classical Islamic History & Culture (Rank Unspecified)
- The American University of Beirut | The Alfred H. Howell Endowed Chair in History and Archaeology
- The Chicago Council on Global Affairs | National Security, Middle East (Fellow)
- The Islamic Manuscript Association | Executive Director
- The Ohio State University | Middle East and Islamic Studies Librarian
- The Ohio State University | Middle East and Islamic Studies Librarian
- The Ruhr-Universität Bochum | Professor for Islamic Religion Past and Present
- The University of Erlangen-Nürnberg | Professorship for Islamic Religious Studies
- The University of Oklahoma | Contemporary Middle East (Assistant Professor)
- United Arab Emirates University | Cultural Anthropology
- University at Albany, SUNY | Eastern Mediterranean Religion (Assistant Professor)
- University of Alabama | Assistant Professor, Modern Middle East/Islam
- University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa | Assistant professor (Modern Middle East/Islam)
- University of Arizona | Assistant Professor of Turkish Studies
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock | Assistant Professor – Political Science
- University of California at Los Angeles | Iranian Studies (Assistant or Associate Professor)
- University of California at Los Angeles | Taslimi Lectureship in Baha’i History and Religion in Iran
- University of California, Berkeley | Middle Eastern History (Assistant or Associate Professor)
- University of California, Davis | Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Early Islam
- University of California, Los Angeles | Iranian Studies (Assistant or Associate Professor)
- University of Denver | Assistant Professor – International and/or and Comparative Politics
- University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh Fellowships in Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies
- University of Exeter | Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies of the Muslim World
- University of Georgia | History of the Modern Middle East (Assistant Professor)
- University of Georgia | Tenure-track assistant professor of modern Middle-Eastern history
- University of Gothenburg Sweden | Postdoctor in Religious Studies
- University of Haifa | Middle Eastern Studies
- University of Illinois at Chicago | Senior Scholar of Middle East/North Africa Modern Urban Social Movements
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Islamic Studies (Assistant Professor)
- University of Louisville | Humanities in Islamic Studies (Assistant Professor)
- University of Massachusetts Amherst | Islamic Philosophy and Political Thought
- University of Memphis | Assistant Professor in Middle East History
- University of Mississippi | Croft Assistant Professor of Political Science in Comparative Politics of the Middle East
- University of Mississippi | Croft Assistant Professor of Political Science in Comparative Politics of the Middle East
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Tenure-track assistant professor (Islamic Central Asia)
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro | Assistant or Associate Professor in Department of Religious Studies
- University of Notre Dame | Modern Islam / Global Islam / Contemporary Islamic Studies (Tenure Track)
- University of Nottingham | Teaching Associate in Islamic Studies (Fixed Term)
- University of Oxford | Faculty of Oriental Studies
- University of Oxford | Research Fellow in the Politics and International Relations of the Middle East
- University of Pennsylvania | Study of Islam & Gender in Modern Asia (Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship)
- University of Rhode Island | Islamic and Mediterranean Studies (3 positions) Assistant Professors
- University of Richmond | Assistant Professor of Anthropology
- University of Saskatchewan | Special Lecturer
- University of South Carolina | Assistant Professor Islamic World (History)
- University of Southern California | Lecturer in History and Culture of Iran
- University of Tennessee | Lecturer in Islam
- University of Texas at Austin | Assistant Professor of Persian Studies
- University of Utah | Wayne Owens Chair in Middle East Studies
- University of Washington | Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies and Classical Arabic
- University of Washington | History of the Islamic World before 1900 and Modern Middle Eastern History (2 positions)
- University of Washington | Persian Civilization Assistant Professor Position
- University of Waterloo | Assistant, associate or full professor for Contemporary Islam in Asia
- University or Wisconsin-Madison | Assistant Professor-Sociocultural Anthropology (Islam and the cultural imagination)
- Vanderbilt University | Assistant Professor
- Warwick University | Assistant Professor of Islamic History
- Washington and Lee University | Islam (Assistant Professor)
- Washington University in St. Louis | Assistant Professor of Modern Arabic Literature and Culture,
- Washington University in St. Louis | Modern Arabic Literature and Culture (Assistant Professor)
- Western Michigan University | Assistant Professor of Islam in America
- Wichita State University | Assistant Professor in Anthropology (Islam and Middle East)
- Williams College | Islam in Context (One-Year Visiting Assistant Professor)
- Williams College | Postdoctoral Fellowship in Middle Eastern History
- Woolf Institute | Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations (Academic Director)
- Zayed University | Art History (Visual Art and Design) and Curatorial Studies (Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor)
- Zayed University | MENASA Region-Middle East, North Africa and South Asia Art History (Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor)
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