Alice C Hunsberger

Alice C. Hunsberger received her PhD in Islamic and Persian studies from Columbia University. She has written and lectured extensively on Nasir-i Khusraw. She is the author of the acclaimed Nasir Khusraw, The Ruby of Badakhshan: A Portrait of the Persian Poet, Traveller and Philosopher (2002), which has been translated into Persian, Tajik, Russian, and Arabic. A former Research Fellow at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, Dr. Hunsberger currently lectures on Islam and Sufism at the...See more

Alice C. Hunsberger received her PhD in Islamic and Persian studies from Columbia University. She has written and lectured extensively on Nasir-i Khusraw. She is the author of the acclaimed Nasir Khusraw, The Ruby of Badakhshan: A Portrait of the Persian Poet, Traveller and Philosopher (2002), which has been translated into Persian, Tajik, Russian, and Arabic. A former Research Fellow at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, Dr. Hunsberger currently lectures on Islam and Sufism at the City University of New York, Hunter College, where she has twice won the First Prize President LeClerc Award for Excellence in Teaching. See less