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Ahmad Khan is an Assistant Professor at The American University in Cairo (AUC), affiliated with the Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations. He has a diverse academic background, having studied and worked at prestigious institutions such as Oxford and Hamburg Universities.
- Education: DPhil and MPhil from the University of Oxford.
Khan specializes in classical Islamic thought, with research interests spanning Quranic exegesis, Hadith learning, Islamic law and legal history, Sufism, and orthodoxy and heresy in Islam. His work contextualizes these areas within intellectual, social, and historical frameworks.
Khan has co-edited and authored significant works, including Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage (Edinburgh University Press) and Heresy and the Formation of Medieval Islamic Orthodoxy: The Making of Sunnism (Cambridge University Press). He is currently finalizing a book on Islamic law and society in medieval Khurasan and compiling critical editions of medieval Sufi texts.
He serves on the editorial boards of Gorgias Press’s Islamic history and thought series and the journal Philological Encounters (Brill). In 2022, he held the Arcapita Visiting Professorship at Columbia University.
Khan teaches courses on Islamic studies and civilizations, as well as Arabic and Persian texts, and supervises master’s student research at AUC.
