Nathan Spannaus

Nathan Spannaus is a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy and social sciences at University of Jyväskylä, Finland, specializing in modern Islamic movements. He has advanced degrees in Islamic Studies from Harvard and McGill, and he has held positions at Princeton and Oxford. His work has appeared in Islamic Law and Society, Muslim World, Arabica, and Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, and he is a co-contributor to the two-volume Modern Islamic Authority and Social Change (Edinburgh University Press, 2018). His first book, Preserving Islamic Tradition: Abu Nasr Qursawi and the Beginnings of Modern Reformism, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019.