Asad, Talal
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Information for Authority record
Name (Hebrew)
אסד, טלאל
Name (Latin)
Asad, Talal
Name (Arabic)
اسد، طلال
Other forms of name
Asad, T. (Talal)
Asado, Tararu
אסד, טלל
Associated country
New York (N.Y.)
Field of activity
Anthropology
Islam
Middle East
Religion
Occupation
Anthropologists
College teachers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Sources of Information
- Talal Asad, Emeritus Faculty, Anthropology, Middle Eastern Studies ; research interests: Religion and secularism, Islamic traditions, political theories Middle East ; At the Graduate Center since 1998, Talal Asad is a sociocultural anthropologist of international stature specializing in the anthropology of religion with a special interest in the Middle East and Islam. He earned his M.A. at Edinburgh University and B.Litt. and D.Phil. at Oxford. Before coming to the United States to teach at the New School, he taught at Oxford and the universities of Khartoum, Sudan, and Hull, England. He was a member of the New School graduate faculty from 1989 to 1995, then joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins University. In the spring of 1979, he served as visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley. ( (CUNY Graduate Center web site, January 8, 2024:) )
- The Author's כינון החילוניות, 2010.
- LCN
- تشكلات العلماني في المسيحية والحداثة والاسلام، 2017:صفحة العنوان (طلال أسد)
- Antropologia, filosofia, ideologia, 1981 (a.e.)t.p. (T. Asad) p. 65 (Talal Asad)
- His The Kababish Arabs, 1970.
- Shūkyō o katarinaosu, 2006t.p. (Asado Tararu [in Jpn.]) colophon (Talal Asad [in rom.]; b. 1933 in Saudia Arabia; prof., New York University; Ph. D. in anthropology, Oxford Univ.)
- Information from 678 converted Dec. 16, 2014(lecturer in social anthropology, Univ. of Hull, Eng.)