Berkley Center

Dr. Feryal Salem is associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies, as well as director of the Master of Divinity in Islamic Studies and Muslim Chaplaincy programs at American Islamic College. Her research interests include Islamic philosophy and theology in the post-classical period, interfaith dialogue, and the development of Muslim thought in the contemporary era as it came into conversation with aspects of modernity. She was previously assistant professor and co-director of the Islamic Chaplaincy Program at Hartford Seminary. Salem is the author of The Emergence of Early Sufi Piety and Sunnī Scholasticism:ʿAbdallāh b. al-Mubārak and the Formation of Sunni Identity in the Second Islamic Century (2016) in Brill's “Islamic History and Civilization” series. She also published Isagoge: A Primer in Classical Logic (2022), in which she translated and wrote a lengthy commentary on Athir al-Din al-Abhari’s foundational treatise. In 2018 she was named one of “25 Influential American Muslims” by CNN for her work in higher education. She received her Ph.D. in Islamic studies from the University of Chicago’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.