Indira Gesink

Background

About Indira Gesink

History Department, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, Ohio (2006-present Department Chairperson) Books: Barefoot Millionaire: John Baldwin and the Founding Values of Baldwin Wallace University. Berea: Baldwin Wallace University, 2013; 2nd edition forthcoming, 2016. Philosophies of History: An Anthology of Historiography from Herodotus to Hayden White, co-edited with Justin Wilson (B-W student), B-W Custom Publishing, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014. Islamic Reform and Conservatism: al-Azhar and the Evolution of Modern Sunni Islam. London: I. B. Tauris, 2009, 2013. Selected articles: “On Islam, Violence, and the Execution of James Foley.” Huffington Post. 22 August 2014. “Arming Rebels Wouldn’t Resolve Syria’s Conflict.” US News and World Report. 14 August 2014. “Iraq: The Rise of the Gangster State—Why We Need a Better, Bolder Response to ISIS.” Huffington Post, 24 July 2014. “Islamic Educational Reform in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: Lessons for the Present.” Chapter one in Reforms in Islamic Education: International Perspectives. Edited by Charlene Tan. London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2013."Speaking Stones: The Cemetery as a Laboratory for Undergraduate Research in the Humanities," Council for Undergraduate Research Quarterly 30, no. 4 (summer 2010), 9-13."Islamic Reformation: A History of Madrasa Reform and Legal Change in Egypt," Comparative Education Review 50, no. 3 (August 2006): 325-345."Nationalist Imagery in Egypt’s Tabloid Presses: A Drawing from the Egyptian Papagallo" and "Science in Religious Education: A Fatwa from 19th-Century Cairo," The Modern Middle East: A Sourcebook, eds. Camron M. Amin, Benjamin C. Fortna, and Elizabeth B. Frierson. London: Oxford University Press, 2006."'Chaos on the Earth': Subjective truths vs. communal unity in Islamic law and the rise of militant Islam," American Historical Review 108, no. 3 (June 2003), 710-733. Specialties: Research specialties: Modern Islamic History, Islamic reform movements, shari`a, women's history, cemetery preservation Courses: World Civilizations 1500-present, History of Europe, Renaissance to 1815 & 1815-present, Women in Asian Civilizations, Early Islam (immersion format), Islamic History 600-1800, Arab-Israeli Conflicts, Modern Middle East 1800-present, Historiography, Berea Cemetery Documentation, Arabic Translation