Richard C. Martin

Richard C. Martin (1938–2019) was an Islamic studies scholar and emeritus professor of religion at Emory University.

Biography Martin earned his PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Literature from New York University in 1975. Martin taught at Virginia Tech University as a Visiting Scholar and chaired the Department of Religious Studies at Arizona State University.

Works As author Approaches to Islam in Religious Studies (Tucson 1985) Islamic Studies: A History of Religions Approach (Prentice-Hall 1996) Defenders of Reason in Islam: Mu`tazilism from Medieval School to Modern Symbol (Oneworld 1997) As editor Sharing the Book: Religious Perspectives on the Rights and Wrongs of Proselytism with John Witte Islamism: Contested Perspectives on Political Islam (Stanford University Press, 2009) with Abbas Barzegar Rethinking Islamic Studies: From Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism (University of South Carolina Press, 2010) with Carl W. Ernst