Islamic Civilization

Agnes Kefeli is Clinical Full Professor of Religious Studies and teaches at Arizona State University. She is the author of Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia, a book which received the 2015 Reginald Zelnik Book Prize of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. She is especially interested in conversion, production of religious knowledge, collective memory, and women’s activities in the religious sphere, in the past as well as in the present. Her latest articles include “Varieties of Tatar Esotericism in Post-Soviet Russia,” published by Russian Review, and “In the Land of Giants: Eco-Mythology and Islamic Authority in the Post-Soviet Tatar Imagination,“ published by Slavic Review. Her Kendall Hunt workbooks aim to support and facilitate her students’ learning in two large and intensive survey courses, Religions of the World and Global History.