Berkley Center

Yousef Casewit is assistant professor of Qur'anic studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School. His research interests include the intellectual history of North Africa and al-Andalus, Muslim perceptions of the Bible, and medieval commentaries on the 99 divine names. Previously, he was a Humanities Research Fellow at New York University Abu Dhabi and an assistant professor of Arabic intellectual heritage and culture at the American University of Sharjah. His publications include a critical edition of a Qur’an commentary by Ibn Barrajan of Seville (2016) and The Mystics of al-Andalus: Ibn Barrajān and Islamic Thought in the Twelfth Century (2017). He is also preparing a translation and critical edition of a Sufi philosophical commentary on the divine names by the Algerian scholar ‘Afif al-Din al-Tilimsani. Casewit earned his Ph.D. in Islamic studies from Yale University.