I am no poet, just a historian of Islamic thought, but last year a student at a local high school invited me to read, edit, and write responses to her poetry. The resulting collaboration has now been published:
Callie Grey. Persephone: Collected Poems with Notes from David Vishanoff. Green Heron, 2024.
It was a transformative experience, and one of the best and most difficult acts of sacrificial listening I have done.
The book is available from amazon.com as a nice and inexpensive hardback as well as a cheaply made paperback and a Kindle ebook.
Today I finished posting on vishanoff.com all my old conference papers and publications. This makes the site a complete archive of my scholarship, with pdf files of almost all the papers and slides to which I own the copyright, and links to all the rest.
I post new items every one to three months, and you can subscribe to receive notifications of new scholarship using the “subscribe by email” or “RSS” buttons on the left sidebar.
There are four main ways to find things:
- The links in my c.v.
- The list of “themes in my work” in the right sidebar.
- The year-by-year archives at the bottom of the right sidebar.
- The search icon in the upper right corner.
Thank you for your interest in my work!
David Vishanoff
University of Oklahoma
This auto-biographical essay recounts the development of several themes and directions in my work as a Christian scholar of Islam, including my pedagogy of sacrificial listening.
David R. Vishanoff. “Sacrificial Listening: Christians, Muslims, and the Secular University.” In Faithful Is Successful: Notes to the Driven Pilgrim, ed. Nathan Grills, David E. Lewis, and S. Joshua Swamidass, 213-243. Denver: Outskirts Press, 2014. (ISBN 978-1478730354)
A scanned copy is posted here as a pdf file, by permission of the editors, for personal non-commercial use only.
Islamic Studies as Sacrificial Listening