Jo-Ann Gross Department Chair, Professor Phone: (609) 771-2213 Email: gross@tcnj.edu Office: Social Science 205A www.tcnj.edu/~gross

PhD, New York University, 1982

A specialist on premodern Iran and Central Eurasia, Professor Gross teaches courses on medieval, premodern and modern Middle Eastern and Central Eurasian history.

Publications

• Jo-Ann Gross, ed., Muslims in Central Asia: Expressions of Identity and Change (Duke University Press, 1992).
• "Interpretations of Bi-adab Behavior in the Hagiographies of Khwaja Ahrar," in The Legacy of Medieval Persian Sufism, ed. by Leonard Lewisohn (Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Publications, London, 1992), 159-172.
• "The Polemic of 'Official' and 'Unofficial' Islam," in Islamic Mysticism Contested: Thirteen Centuries of Controversies and Polemics, ed. by Frederick de Jong and Bernd Radtke (E.J. Brill, 1999), 520-540.
• "The Waqf of Khoja 'Ubayd Allah Ahrar in Nineteenth Century Central Asia: A Preliminary Study of the Tsarist Record," in Naqshbandis in Western and Central Asia , ed. by Elisabeth Ozdalga (Curson Press,1999), 47-60.
• Naqshbandi Appeals to the Herat Court in the Late Timurid Period: A Preliminary Study of Trade and Property Issues," in Studies on Central Asian History in Honor of Yuri Bregel , ed. by Devin Deweese (Indiana University Press, 2002), 113-128.
• (Jo-Ann Gross and Asom Urunbaev), The Letters of Khwajah 'Ubayd Allah Ahrar and His Associates (Brill Publishers, 2002).
• Musul'manskaya Tsentral'naya Aziya: Religioznost' i Obshchestvo - Izbrannye Stat'i ( Islamic Central Asia: Religiosity and Society - Collected Works ), Russian translation, editing, and critical introduction by Lola Dodkhoudoeva (Dushanbe, 2004).

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