Islam

Tamara Sonn is the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in the History of Islam at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. She has published numerous books, including Interpreting Islam: Bandali Jawzi s Islamic Intellectual History (1996), Comparing Religions through Law: Judaism and Islam (with J. Neusner, 1999), and most recently The Religion Toolkit: A Complete Guide to Religious Studies (with J. Morreall, Wiley, 2011) and 50 Great Myths About Religion (with J. Morreall, Wiley, 2014). Her work has been translated into Arabic, Bengali, Portugese, and Russian. A senior editor of Oxford Islamic Studies Online, Professor Sonn is also the founding editor-in-chief of Oxford Bibliographies Online Islamic Studies, and Wiley-Blackwell s online journal of Religious Studies, Religion Compass.