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{{Short description|Literary scholar}}
{{BLP sources|date=November 2013}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Ian Almond
| birth_date = 1969
| birth_place = Skipton
| nationality = English
| alma_mater = Edinburgh University
| occupation = Scholar of Post-Modernism and Islam
}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2017}}

'''Ian Almond''' (born 1969) is a literary scholar. He is professor of [[world literature]] at [[Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Georgetown University Faculty Directory|url=https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014TX6WAAW/ian-almond|access-date=2021-10-25|website=gufaculty360.georgetown.edu}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Ian Almond was born in 1969 in [[Skipton]], [[England]]. He received his PhD in literature at [[Edinburgh University]], and worked for [[University of Bari]] in [[Italy]], [[Erciyes University]] and [[Boğaziçi University]] in [[Turkey]], Frei University in [[Germany]], and [[Georgia State University]] in the USA, before coming to Georgetown University School of Foreign Service Qatar in 2013.

Almond specializes in [[post-colonial theory]], South Asian literature, representations of [[Islam]] and world literature. His works primarily focus on Islam.<ref name=":0" /> He is interested in showing how Islam has been an overlooked factor in the formation of Europe. His book ''Two Faiths, One Banner: When Muslims marched with Christians across Europe's battlegrounds''<ref>{{cite web|title=Two Faiths, One Banner|url=(http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674061767)|publisher=Harvard University Press|accessdate=17 September 2013}}</ref> is a history of Muslim-Christian military alliances in Europe.

Almond theorizes in ''History of Islam in German Thought from [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz|Leibniz]] to [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]]'' that [[Marx]], [[Hegel]], Nietzsche and [[Kant]] knew more about Islam than conventionally assumed. In his work on philosophy, he argues that many postmodernists rely on an Orientalist tropes in writing about Islam. His works seek to explore the repressed spirituality of allegedly secular authors.<ref name=:"22" />

He is the author of five books. His books have been translated into several languages, including [[Arabic]], [[Turkish language|Turkish]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Korean language|Korean]], [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]] and [[Bosnian language|Bosnian]].<ref name=":0" />
The Arabic translation of his book Sufism and Deconstruction was shortlisted among seven other books for the Sheikh Zayed Book Prize.<ref name=:"22" >{{cite web|title=Longlist announcements of Sheikh Zayed Book Award continue|url=http://zayedaward.ae/portal/en/readnew.aspx?id=124|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202233653/http://zayedaward.ae/portal/en/readnew.aspx?id=124|archive-date=2 December 2013|accessdate=17 September 2013}}</ref>

==Bibliography==

* Sufism and Deconstruction: A Comparative Study of Derrida and Ibn ʻArabi. New York; London: Routledge, 2004.<ref>Reviews of ''Sufism and Deconstruction: A Comparative Study of Derrida and Ibn ʻArabi'':
* Philosophy East and West, Vol. 62, No. 2 (APRIL 2012), pp. 270-273
* Literature and Theology, Vol. 20, No. 4 (December 2006), pp. 480-482
* International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Feb., 2006), pp. 164-165</ref>
* The New Orientalists: Postmodern Representations of Islam from Foucault to Baudrillard. London: I.B. Tauris, 2007 {{ISBN|978-1845113988}}
* Two Faiths, One Banner: When Muslims marched with Christians across Europe's battlegrounds. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009.<ref>Reviews of ''Two Faiths, One Banner: When Muslims marched with Christians across Europe's battlegrounds'':
* Journal of World History, Vol. 22, No. 3 (September 2011), pp. 595-597
* British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 37, No. 3, Heterodox Movements in the Contemporary Islamic World: Alevis, Yezidis and Ahmadis (DECEMBER 2010), pp. 456-457
* The Journal of Religion, Vol. 90, No. 1 (January 2010), pp. 94-96</ref>
* History of Islam in German Thought from Leibniz to Nietzsche. New York: Routledge, 2010.<ref>Reviews of ''History of Islam in German Thought from Leibniz to Nietzsche'':
* Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2 (May 2012), pp. 269-272
* The Modern Language Review, Vol. 107, No. 3 (July 2012), pp. 1004-1006
* Monatshefte, Vol. 102, No. 4 (Winter 2010), pp. 602-604
* Literature and Theology, Vol. 25, No. 1, Poetry and Belief (March 2011), pp. 111-113</ref>
* The Thought of Nirad C. Chaudhuri. London: Cambridge University Press, 2015. {{ISBN|9781107094437}}
*World Literature Decentered: Beyond the “West” Through Turkey, Mexico and Bengal. Routledge, 2021. ISBN 9780367683375

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://scholar.google.com.tr/citations?user=-FIXwXYAAAAJ&hl=en Google scholar page]
* http://www.english.gsu.edu/9694.html
* https://www1-georgetown.academia.edu/IanAlmond
* http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674061767

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