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Islamic Studies and History

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Chaoqun Lian
Bengbu Medical College
2
Yener Bayramoğlu
University of York
3
Abdessamad Belhaj
Ludovika University of Public Service
4
Ahmet Safa Hüdaverdi
Unknown
5
Mohit Manohar
Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology
6
Mohamed Rishard Najimudeen
Unknown
7
Amira Abdelhamid
University of Portsmouth
8
Ersun N. Kurtulus
Ankara Sosyal Bilimler Üniversitesi
9
Ismail Lala
Gulf University for Science & Technology
10
Hany Rashwan
Universidad de Salamanca

Rising Stars Papers

1
Integrating multi-omics and machine learning survival frameworks to build a prognostic model based on immune function and cell death patterns in a lung adenocarcinoma cohort
Frontiers in Immunology|2024
14 cit.
2
Integration of the bulk transcriptome and single-cell transcriptome reveals efferocytosis features in lung adenocarcinoma prognosis and immunotherapy by combining deep learning
Cancer Cell International|2024
12 cit.
3
Multi-omics identification of GPCR gene features in lung adenocarcinoma based on multiple machine learning combinations
Journal of Cancer|2024
11 cit.
4
Identification of T-cell exhaustion-related genes and prediction of their immunotherapeutic role in lung adenocarcinoma
Journal of Cancer|2024
11 cit.
5
Identification and validation of tryptophan-related gene signatures to predict prognosis and immunotherapy response in lung adenocarcinoma reveals a critical role for PTTG1
Frontiers in Immunology|2024
7 cit.
6
Transnational queer cultures and digital media: an introduction
Communication Culture and Critique|2024
6 cit.
7
<i>Muqāranah</i>: The Art of Comparison in Premodern Arabo-Islamic Poetics
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America|2024
5 cit.
8
Hadith as Oral Literature through Early Islamic Literary Criticism
Studia Islamica|2024
4 cit.
9
Editor’s introduction: Beyond Arabic in premodern Islamic worlds
postmedieval a journal of medieval cultural studies|2024
4 cit.
10
<i>Balāgha</i> is not rhetoric
Translation and Interpreting Studies|2025
4 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Şebnem Gümüşçü
Middlebury College
2
Kamal Soleimani
London School of Economics and Political Science
3
James Barry
Deakin University
4
Dwi Surya Atmaja
Universitas Negeri Surabaya
5
Andrew O’Malley
University of St Andrews
6
Gina Vale
King's College London
7
Mira Menzfeld
University of Cologne
8
Faizul Haque
Heriot-Watt University Dubai
9
Ran Zhang
Chongqing University
10
Afshin Shahi
Keele University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Do corporate sustainability initiatives improve corporate carbon performance? Evidence from European firms
Business Strategy and the Environment|2022
153 cit.
2
The Making of the Modern Child: Children’s Literature and Childhood in the Late Eighteenth Century
Unknown Journal|2024
126 cit.
3
How Erdoğan’s Populism Won Again
Journal of democracy|2023
67 cit.
4
The AKP and stealth Islamization in Turkey
Turkish Studies|2024
28 cit.
5
Does gender diversity in corporate boards and executive management teams influence carbon performance? Evidence from Europe
Accounting Forum|2024
24 cit.
6
Silencing the Past
Current Anthropology|2022
19 cit.
7
Quality assurance and validity of AI-generated single best answer questions
BMC Medical Education|2025
19 cit.
8
“You are no longer cubs, you are now lions”: examining the constructed masculinities of Islamic State child executioners and their victims
Critical Studies on Terrorism|2022
15 cit.
9
The everydayness of spectacle violence under the Islamic Republic: ‘Fire at will’
Security Dialogue|2023
13 cit.
10
Ensuring Appropriate Representation in Artificial Intelligence–Generated Medical Imagery: Protocol for a Methodological Approach to Address Skin Tone Bias
JMIR AI|2024
13 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Talal Asad
The Graduate Center, CUNY
2
Lila Abu‐Lughod
Columbia University
3
John L. Esposito
TriNetX (United States)
4
George Makdisi
University of Pennsylvania
5
Mohammad Hāshim Kamali
International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies
6
Mohd Roslan Mohd Nor
University of Malaya
7
Michael M. J. Fischer
Graz University of Technology
8
Mohamad Zulfazdlee Abul Hassan Ashari
National University of Malaysia
9
Şevket Pamuk
Boğaziçi University
10
William Marshall
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion|1987
3.7k cit.
2
Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1994
2.3k cit.
3
Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and Its Others
American Anthropologist|2002
2.3k cit.
4
the romance of resistance: tracing transformations of power through Bedouin women
American Ethnologist|1990
2.3k cit.
5
Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter
British Journal of Sociology|1974
1.9k cit.
6
The Industrial Organization of Congress; or, Why Legislatures, Like Firms, Are Not Organized as Markets
Journal of Political Economy|1988
1.5k cit.
7
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
The International Journal of African Historical Studies|1987
976 cit.
8
Writing against Culture
Unknown Journal|2008
903 cit.
9
Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society
Journal of American Folklore|1988
796 cit.
10
Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence
Journal of Law and Religion|2000
591 cit.

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