Kevin Reinhart
Kevin Reinhart specializes in Islamic religious studies. His BA is in Arabic and Middle East Studies from the University of Texas, Austin. His MA and PhD are from the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard (M.A., and Ph.D.). He joined the faculty of the Department of Religion at Dartmouth University in 1986. His research focuses on the general study of Islamic religion, Islamic legal thought— primarily in the pre-modern period—Ottoman Islam, and, more generally, appropriations of the Islamic heritage. His book, Before Revelation: The Boundaries of Muslim Moral Knowledge, which is a study of Islamic theories of moral knowledge, was published by SUNY Press in 1995. His Lived Islam (Cambridge UP 2020), considers the variety of Islamic practices in different locales, and is to some extent a critique of “armchair Islamic studies.” He has three co-edited books and 30+ articles in various fields in the study of Islam and Religion. His current project is a survey of Islamic ritual and how to study it. He has received grants grants from the NEH, Fulbright, the Department of Education, and the American Research Institutes in Egypt, Turkey, and Yemen. Turkey. He served as President of the American Research Institute, Turkey. He has conducted research in many Middle Eastern countries including Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Yemen, Morocco and Iraq. His first research trip to the Arab world was to Morocco in the 1970s, and he has returned frequently since then.