Jamel Velji, Ph.D.
Department
Teaching Interests
"The End of the World as We Know it" (a comparative examination of apocalypticism); Islamic Thought; Islamic Empire and Political Philosophy; Dreams, Visions and the Afterlife in Islam; Contemporary Issues in Islamic Studies; Religion of Islam
Research Interests
Islamic apocalypticism and eschatology; Islamic intellectual history; Shiism; coffee and its reception history
Education
B.A., Haverford College; M.A. McGill University; Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara
Awards and Affiliations
Selected National and International Awards
US Department of Education Jacob K. Javits Fellowship
Josephine de Karman Fellowship
Institute of Ismaili Studies Dissertation Writing Grant
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, (SSHRC) Canada Doctoral Fellowship
Research and Publications
An Apocalyptic History of the Early Fatimid Empire. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
"Seeing Salvation: Authority and Apocalypse in Saint Paul and the Nizari Ismaili Qiyama." Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 2017.
"Apocalyptic Rhetoric and the Construction of Authority in Medieval Ismailism," in Roads to Paradise, Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam, ed. Sebastian Guenther and Todd Lawson, with the assistance of Christian Mauder. Leiden: Brill, 2016.