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Sana Tayyen, Philosophy

Education

• Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California
  Ph.D. Religion, Philosophy of Religion and Theology (in progress)
  Dissertation: “Ghazali, Aquinas and Litarafoo: The Interplay between Reason and Revelation”
  Committee: Anselm K. Min (Chair), Philip Clayton, Ahmed Alwishah (Pitzer College)
  M.A. Philosophy (in progress)
• University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee
  M.A.L.S. Religion and Communication-2005
  Thesis: “The Women Who Cared for and Supported Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad”
  Summa Cum Laude
• Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, Illinois
  B.A. Early Childhood Education-1998

Interests

• Inter-Religious Dynamics
• Islam and Muslims
• Comparative Theology
• Philosophy of Religion and Theology

Publications

“That You May Know Each Other”, in Encountering the Stranger:A Jewish, Christian, Muslim Trialogue, ed. John K. Roth and Leonard Grob, (University of Washington Press: Forthcoming).
Invited by editors to become a participant and submit a chapter for an Inter-Religious Trialogue project/book. This project consists of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim university scholars from around the globe engaging in dialogical written conversation with the goal of incorporating the “other” into one’s own particular religious tradition.

“Christian and Muslim Diasporas from the Arab Region: Between U.S. Empire, Homeland Politics and the Pressures of Racism and Assimilation,” with Nadine Naber and Matthew Stiffler, in Ethnologies of Scriptural Readings in the United States, ed. Vincent L. Wimbush. Forthcoming.
A culmination of a three year project studying Arab Americans and their integration of scriptures in identity and community formation.

Seven Surahs for the Classroom, (Chicago: IQRA’ International Educational Foundation, 2000).
Created a study guide for a junior level Quran classroom: grades 5th through 8th that bridges Islamic values and Western culture, producing an American Muslim identity in 3 American Muslim youth. Seven Surahs for the Classroom is currently being distributed and utilized by Islamic schools throughout the United States.

Honors

• Robert J. Bernard Foundation Fellowship, 2007-2008
  Awarded on the basis of academic performance at Claremont Graduate University-School of Religion.
• John and Irene Nugent Memorial Fund Fellowship, 2006-2007
  Awarded on the basis of academic performance at Claremont Graduate University-School of Religion.
• Claremont Graduate University Fellowship: 2006-present
  School of Religion
• Claremont Graduate University Fellowship: 2006 to 2008
  Philosophy Department
• Chancellor’s List Publication 2004-2005
  Awarded on the basis of recognition for outstanding academic and community achievements in a professional, meaningful and dignified manner.