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- Dr. Matthew Kuiper’s scholarship focuses on classical and modern Islam, inter-religious relations and religious propagation. He lived in South Asia for many years, and has traveled throughout the Muslim World. Kuiper joined Hope’s religion faculty in 2021.
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Oct 3, 2024 · Dr. Matthew Kuiper of the Hope College religion faculty has been appointed to the college’s Evert J. and Hattie E. Blekkink Professorship. Kuiper joined the Hope faculty in 2021. His scholarship focuses on classical and modern Islam, inter-religious relations and religious propagation.
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Dr. Kuiper’s research interests include classical and modern Islamic history, Islamic da‘waor mission, Muslim-Christian relations and the religious history of South Asia.
Frequent presenter and participant in societies like the American Academy of Religion, International Qur'anic Studies Association and Middle East Studies AssociationIslamic Studies Chair, Midwest Region of the American Academy of Religion, 2017–presentResearch Grant Awardee, Center for Islam in the Contemporary World, Shenandoah University, 2019Shaheen Award for Outstanding Ph.D. graduate in Humanities, University of Notre Dame, May 2017Numerous refereed articles, book chapters and other writingsDr. Kuiper and his wife Laurie have three teenage children. He enjoys time with family, watching his kids’ extra-curricular activities, traveling around the U.S. and the world, hiking and jogging, and a good cup of coffee. Follow Dr. Kuiper on Twitter.
In this video I chat with friend and professor Matthew Kuiper of Hope College. We discuss the history of Dawa from its origins in the message of the Qur'an t...
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Matthew J. Kuiper: Da'wa: A Global History of Islamic Missionary Thought and Practice. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021, pp. xiii + 319. David Thomas. First published: 08 November 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9809.12793. PDF. Tools. Share. Get access to the full version of this article. View access options below.
* Kuiper, Matthew J., Review of Philip Jenkins’ The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa and Asia – And How it Died (New York: Harper One, 2008).
Dec 22, 2022 · Book review of Matthew J. Kuiper: Da’wa: A Global History of Islamic Missionary Thought and Practice. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021, 319 pp. Author Biography Tuomas Martikainen, University of Eastern Finland
Apr 5, 2022 · In this engaging study, Matthew J. Kuiper tells the fascinating story of how Islam became a world religion and cultural phenomenon of immense scale, astonishing diversity and global impact.
