Gordon D. Newby
Professor and Chair
Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies
S-312 Callaway Center
537 Kilgo Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322
404-727-2717 (Voice & Voicemail)
gordon.newby@emory.edu

Professor Gordon D. Newby is the Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies and a Professor in the Graduate Program of West and South Asian Religions. He received his Ph.D. in Mediterranean Studies at Brandeis University. He has taught at Washington State University, Brandeis University, North Carolina State University, and joined Emory in 1992 as Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Chair of the Department. His research specialties include Early Islam, Muslim relations with Jews and Christians, and comparative sacred texts. Among his scholarly works are A History of the Jews of Arabia, The Making of the Last Prophet, and A Concise Encyclopedia of Islam. He is currently working on a long-term project of a multi-volume encyclopedia of the Middle East and South Asia as well as a monograph on Apocalypse and Apocalyptic among Jews, Christians and Muslims at the time of the rise of Islam.