Jawid Mojaddedi is Professor of Religion at Rutgers University.
His previous books include Beyond Dogma: Rumi\'s Teachings on Friendship with God and Early Sufi Theories (OUP, 2012) and The Biographical Tradition in Sufism (2001)..
Dr Mojaddedi\'s translation of The Masnavi : Book One (OUP, 2004) was awarded the Lois Roth Prize by the American Institute of Iranian Studies.
Born in Afghanistan, he was a 2014-15 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellow and a 2020-21 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow.
Jawid Mojaddedi is Professor of Religion at Rutgers University