Before coming to Emory, Kugle was an Assistant Professor of Religion at Swarthmore College and, most recently, a research scholar at the Henry Martyn Institute for Islamic Studies, Inter-Religious Dialogue, and Conflict Resolution in Hyderabad, India.Ĭopyright © Emory University - All Rights Reserved | 201 Dowman Drive, Atlanta, Georgia 30322 USA 404.727. He conducts research in India and Pakistan his research languages are Arabic, Urdu, and Persian. He is the author of four books and numerous articles, including Sufis and Saints' Bodies: Mysticism, Corporeality and Sacred Power in Islamic Culture (UNC Press, 2007) and Homosexuality in Islam: Critical Reflection on Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Muslims (Oneworld Publications, 2010). His fields of expertise include Sufism, Islamic society in South Asia, and issues of gender and sexuality. I desperately searched for answers.Scott Kugle is the first Muslim to publish widely on the issue of homosexuality and transgender identity in Islam. His dissertation, In Search of the Center: Authenticity, Reform and Critique in Early Modern Islamic Sainthood, examined Sufism in North Africa and South Asia. He received his PhD from Duke University in 2000 in History of Religions after graduating from Swarthmore College with High Honors in Religion, Literature, and History. Scott Kugle joins the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies in Fall 2010. Professor of South Asian and Islamic Studies
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