Dr. Natana Delong-Bas

Department of Theology, Boston College

Author of Jihad for Islam: The Struggle for the Future of Saudi Arabia (forthcoming, Oxford, 2012), Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad (rev. ed., Oxford, 2008 – named “1 of the 5 best books for understanding Islam” by the Wall Street Journal), and Notable Muslims: Muslim Builders of World Civilization and Culture (OneWorld, 2006), and co-author of Women in Muslim Family Law (with John L. Esposito, rev. ed., Syracuse, 2001).

Dr. Natana J. DeLong-Bas is Editor-in-Chief of [The Oxford] Encylopedia of Islam and Women (forthcoming, Oxford, 2012) and Deputy Editor for The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World and Oxford Islamic Studies Online (Oxford, 2008).

She serves on the Advisory Board for Oxford Bibliographies Online – Islamic Studies, is a consultant to the media, international governments and corporations, and teaches comparative theology at Boston College.