Timothy Gutmann

This is the personal scholarship page for Timothy Gutmann. My PhD in religion is from the University of Chicago. I focus on Islamic and East Asian thought.

My research and teaching also focus on diverse traditions of educational theory and practice, the politics of belonging and the minority question, and liberalism in contemporary society.

Having taught at the UChicago and elsewhere, I am Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Southern Mississippi. I split my time between Hattiesburg and Chicago.

Modern Education and the Minority Question: Thinking with Saba Mahmood

December 18, 2019  /  Timothy Gutmann

In this article, I try to consider modern mass education and the minority question from perspectives of premodern Islamic thought. In this I try to engage the thought of Saba Mahmood, one of the most challenging scholars in the fields of anthropology and political theory I have read. 

There is so much I could write about how Mahmood has challenged my thinking. Her work deserves more than I’ve done in this article in a memorial edition of Sociology of Islam. I know I will return to her work for years to come.

If you’d like free access, please email me at tgutmann [at] uchicago [dot] edu.

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