Jane Idleman Smith

Jane Idleman Smith is an American scholar of Islam and former professor of Comparative Religion at Harvard University. She is currently Professor Emerita of Islamic studies at Hartford Seminary.

Biography
Smith received Bachelor of Divinity degree from Hartford Seminary and her Phd from Harvard Divinity School. She has served as Professor of Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations and co-director of the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary and professor of Comparative Religion at Harvard University. She also served as co-editor of The Muslim World journal.

Works

 * Islam in America
 * Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today
 * The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection
 * Mission to America: Five Islamic Sectarian Communities in North America
 * Muslims, Christians, and the Challenge of Interfaith Dialogue
 * Islam and the West Post 9/11
 * An Historical and Semantic Study of the Term "islām" as Seen in a Sequence of Qurʼān Commentaries