Alexander Massad

Education

Ph.D., Intercultural Studies
Fuller Theological Seminary, 2020

M.A., Theology and Religious Studies
Georgetown University, 2015

M.A., Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures
University of Virginia, 2010

B.A., History (Religion: Minor)
Trinity University, 2008

Publications

Witnessing God: Christians, Muslims and the Comparative Theology of Missions, Brill: Leiden, 2025.

“Islamic Philosophy.” In Islam : Global Christian Perspectives : Voices of Majority World Christian Scholars of Islam. Edited by Michael Nazir-Ali and Wageeh Mikhail. Eugune, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2024.

“Neo-Calvinism, Islam, and Other Religions.” in T&T Clark Handbook of Neo-Calvinism. Edited by Gray Sutanto and Cory Brock. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.

“Polemicist, Apologist, or Missionary: Rashīd Riḍā’s Ṭarīq al-Da‘wa.” The Muslim World 112, No. 2 (2022): 247-271.

Massad, Alexander and William Dyrness. “Toward Enriched Ways of Knowing: The Multiple Roles of Aesthetics in Interfaith Encounters.” Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies, edited by Lucinda Allen Mosher, 117-118, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2022

“Who is the ‘Other?’ Reconsidering Salvation Through Classical Islamic Thought.” The Religious Other: Towards a Biblical Understanding of Islam, the Qur’an and Muhammad, edited by Martin Accad and Jonathan Andrews, 341-355, Cambria, UK: Langham Global Library, 2020.

“Epistemological Openness: A Neo-Calvinist Theological Response to Vatican II” Catholicism Engaging Other Faiths: Vatican II and Its Impact, edited by Vladimir Latinovic, Gerard Mannion, and Jason Welle, 175-194, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

Areas of Expertise

Comparative Theology
Inter-Religious Studies
Neo-Calvinism
Christianity in the Middle East
Mysticism
Islamic Studies
Islamic Philosophy
Salafism
Salafism
Missiology
Israel/Palestine

Current Research

C. S. Lewis and al-Muhasibi on Moral Psychology and Sin
Shabbir Akhtar, Islamic Philosophy, and Christian Political Theology
Evangelical Theology and Comparative Theology

Courses Taught

BITH 221 OT in Three Tradition
BITH 315 Christian Thought
RELI 225 Major World Religions
RELI 233 Theological Approaches to Religious Diversity
RELI 356 The Jewish Tradition
RELI 375 The Muslim Tradition
BITH 627 World Religions