Najib George Awad

Prof. Dr. Najib George Awad , (Prof. Dr. Phil; Dr. Theol. Habil) is Professor of Christian Theology and Eastern Christian Thought and the Director of the PhD Program in Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary, Connecticut USA. He had his first PhD from King's College University of London, UK (2007) and his second Dr. Theol. Habil. from the Philipp University of Marburg, Germany (2014). His monographs in English are Orthodoxy in Arabic Terms: A Study of Theodore Ab ...See more

Prof. Dr. Najib George Awad , (Prof. Dr. Phil; Dr. Theol. Habil) is Professor of Christian Theology and Eastern Christian Thought and the Director of the PhD Program in Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary, Connecticut USA. He had his first PhD from King's College University of London, UK (2007) and his second Dr. Theol. Habil. from the Philipp University of Marburg, Germany (2014). His monographs in English are Orthodoxy in Arabic Terms: A Study of Theodore Ab Qurrah's Trinitarian and Christological Doctrines in an Islamic Context (De Gruyter, 2015); and Umayyad Christianity: John of Damascus as a Contextual Example of Identity-Formation in Early Islam (Gorgias Press, 2018). Right now, he is working on a research project about Mu'tazilite kal m in the 3rd/9th century Abbasid era. See less