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Jane I. Smith: Editor
Jane I. Smith is Professor of Islamic Studies and Co-Director of the
Macdonald Center for Christian-Muslim Relations, at Hartford Seminary. She has done extensive work
on the role and status of women in Islam, Muslim communities in America, historical relations between
Christians and Muslims, and Christian theology in relation to Islam. Dr. Smith is co-editor of The Muslim
World, a journal dedicated to the study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations; area editor for Brill’s
Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures; and editor of the Islam section of The Encyclopedia of
Women in World Religions.
A member of the Commission on Interfaith Relations of the National Council of Churches of Christ, the
United Church of Christ/Disciples of Christ Interfaith Consultation, she is a frequent participant in
Christian-Muslim dialogue meetings in the United States and abroad. She teaches in the area of
Christian-Muslim relations and interfaith dialogue, as well as courses in Islamic studies and comparative
religion. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Council for Interreligious
Understanding, Inc.
Among Dr. Smith’s recent publications are Becoming American: Immigration and Religious Life in the
United States, edited with John Esposito and Yvonne Haddad (Altamira Press, 2003); “Muslims as
Partners in Interfaith Encounter: Models for Dialogue,” in Zion’s Herald (2003); “Sayyid Hossein Nasr and
the Christian-Muslim Encounter,” in Beacon of Knowledge: A Tribute to Sayyid Hossein Nasr (Fons Vitae,
2003); The Islamic Understanding of Death and Resurrection, with Yvonne Haddad (Oxford University
Press, 2003; reprint, translated into Indonesian); Visible and Invisible: Muslim Communities in the West,
with Yvonne Haddad (AltaMira Press, 2002); “Balancing Divergence and Convergence, or Is God the
Author of Confusion?” in A Faithful Presence: Essays for Kenneth Cragg (Melisende, 2003); “Thinking
Globally about Islam,” in Global Religions (Oxford, 2002); “Women’s Issues in American Islam,” in
Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America (Indiana University Press, 2004); “Women in
Islam: New Images and Interpretations” in The Christian Century (February 2002); “Faith” and “Afterlife”
in Encyclopedia of the Qur’an (Brill, 2002); “Wilfred Cantwell Smith: Understanding Worlds of Faith” in A
Great Commission: Christian Hope and Religious Diversity (Oxford, 2000); Islam in America (Columbia
University Press, 1999); “Islam and Christendom” in The Oxford History of Islam (Oxford, 1999).
Dr. Jane Smith at The Macdonald Center, Hartford Seminary