Dr. Jawad Qureshi

Dr. Jawad Qureshi is a scholar of Islamic studies with field specialties in Religious Studies Theory and Method, Islamic Revival and Reform, Islamic Theological and Philosophical Thought, Sufism, and Qur’anic Studies. Since 2018, he has taught graduate courses in Arabic Logic, Theology 1, Theology 2, Theology 3, and Research Methods in Islamic Studies at Zaytuna College.
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Dr. Qureshi received his BA in Religious Studies from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1999 and his MA in Religion from the University of Georgia-Athens in 2002. In 2019, Dr. Qureshi received his PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Chicago Divinity School. Prior to his post at Zaytuna College, he taught at the American Islamic College (2014–2018).
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Dr. Qureshi’s PhD thesis, titled “Sunni Tradition in an Age of Revival and Reform: Said Ramadan al-Buti (1929–2013) and His Interlocutors,” is an account of counterreformation within Sunni teachings in the twentieth century, focusing on the religious field of twentieth-century Damascus, Syria, and the life and career of its most prominent Sunni scholar, Shaykh Saʿīd Ramaḍān al-Būṭī (1929–2013).