Garrett Davidson Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies Asian Studies College of Charleston [email protected]

Education

PhD with honors, The Dissertation Title: Carrying on the Tradition: An Intellectual and Social History of Post Canonical Transmission (Defended May 8th 2014)

The University of Chicago MA in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, June 2008

The American University in Cairo MA in Arabic Studies, June 2006

Center for the Study of Arabic Language Abroad (CASA), Cairo, Egypt, Certificate in Arabic language, June 2004

The University of Washington Bachelor of Arts in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, magna cum laude, June 2003

The University of Kuwait Certificate in Arabic language, 1999

Awards Friends of the Library Research Grant (2016) Whiting Fellowship (2013-2014) University of Chicago merit fellowship from unendowed funds (2007-2011) The Center for Arabic Studies Abroad Fellowship (2003-2004) The University of Kuwait, Fellowship for the Study of Arabic (1998-1999)

Employment

Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies (2015) – College of Charleston Instructor, Beginning Arabic (2014) – University of Oregon Teaching Assistant, Intermediate Arabic (2012)- University of Chicago Teaching Assistant, High Intermediate Arabic (2008- 2010) - University of Chicago Research Assistant for Professor Orit Bashkin (2008-2010) – University of Chicago Research Assistant for Professor Wadad Kadi (2009) - University of Chicago

Languages

Arabic (Fluent in Classical, Egyptian, Levantine and Gulf Arabic) Persian (Reading knowledge, intermediate spoken) Epigraphic North and South Arabian (reading knowledge) French (reading knowledge) German (reading knowledge)

Publications

“ ‘Abd al-Hayy al-Kattānī and Hadith Transmission as a Feature of Modern Sunni Traditionalism” In Inheriting and Inventing Tradition: Networks of Modern Sunni Traditionalism. Ed. Ebrahim Moosa and Jonathan Brown, University of North Carolina Press (forthcoming).

“Hadith in Islamic Studies” in the Oxford Handbook on Islamic Law. Ed. Rumi Ahmed and Kristen Stilt, Oxford University Press, (Forthcoming).

“The Craft of the Genre and Post-Canonical Hadith Literature” in The Oxford Handbook of Hadith Studies (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

Translation Tawakkol Karman, “Yemen’s Unfinished Revolution” New York Times, June 18, 2011.

Encyclopedia Articles

"Recent Developments in Western Studies of Hadith,” Religion Compass (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing)

“Ijāza” and “Dreams as Probative in Law”” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Law (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

“Ibn Qutlubugha” Encyclopaedia of Islam Three (Brill)

“Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ Shahrazuri” Encyclopaedia of Islam Three (Brill)

Conferences

“The Recanonization of al-Bukhārī’s Ṣaḥīḥ: Between the Manuscript Tradition and Printed Text,” 226th meeting of the American Oriental Society, Boston, 3/20/16.

“The Prophet’s Promise and Elevation: Post-Canonical Hadith Transmission and the Forty-Hadith Genre,” 225th meeting of the American Oriental Society, New Orleans, 3/13/2015

“Children and the Audition Registers of Medieval Hadith Manuscripts,” the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, New York, 1/4/15

“Jinni Companions of the Prophet and the Culture of Post-Canonical Hadith Transmission,” 223rd meeting of the American Oriental Society, Portland, 3/18/13

“Children Should Hear and be Heard: Hadith Attendance Registers and the Role of Children in Medieval Hadith Transmission,” the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association in Denver, 11/20/2012

“Attendance Registers in Arabic Manuscripts and the Discovery of the Medieval Ḥadīth ‘Rock Star’ Abū�‘Abbās al-Ḥajjār (d. 730/1329),” 222nd meeting of the American Oriental Society, Boston, 3/17/12

“Manāhij gharbiyya li-dirasat al-ḥadīth al-sharīf (Western Academic Approaches to the Study of Hadith),” Nadwat al-‘Ulama, Lucknow, India, 1/15/2012.

Invited Participant at Colloquium on Oral Tradition in Islam and Judaism, Georgetown, 10/25/11.

“Supernatural Hadith transmission or Can a Genie be a Companion of the Prophet?” 11th Annual Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern Studies, 4/20/11

“The Ijāzat al-Riwāya and Post-Classical Hadith Transmission,” Annual meeting of the American Oriental Society, 4/14/2011.

“ ‘Abd al-Ḥayy al-Kattāni and Late Sunni Hadith Transmission” panel on ‘Makers of “Traditional” Islam: Identifying a Phenomenon through its Architects,’ American Academy of Religion Annual Conference, 11/3/08.

“ ‘Abd al-Hayy al-Kattānī and Hadith Transmission as a Feature of Modern Sunni Traditionalism,” Invited Speaker, Conference on 'The Contours of Late Sunni Traditionalism,' Duke University, 4/28-30/10.

“A Genie Companion of the Prophet?: The jinn and Post-Canonical Hadtih Transmission,” Annual Middle Eastern History and Theory Conference, Chicago, 5/13/10.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Academy of Religion Middle East Studies Association American Research Center in Egypt American Orientalists Society

REFERENCES Fred Donner, Professor of Islamic History Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago Email:[email protected] Ahmed El Shamsy , Assistant Professor of Islamic Thought Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago Email: [email protected]