Vita

Sohail H. Hashmi is Professor of International Relations on the Alumnae Foundation and Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College, where he has taught since 1994. Hashmi’s research and teaching focus on comparative international ethics, particularly concepts of just war and peace, and on the study of religion in politics, particularly Islam in domestic and international politics. 

He has published on a range of topics in Islamic ethics and political theory, including sovereignty, humanitarian intervention, tolerance, civil society, and the theory of jihad.  He is the editor or coeditor of five books, including Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads: Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Encounters and Exchanges (Oxford University Press, 2012) and Islamic Political Ethics: Civil Society, Pluralism, and Conflict (Princeton University Press, 2009). He is also senior editor of the two-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics (2014). 

Hashmi received a B.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Harvard and an M.A. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton. He has been awarded fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the W. Alton Jones Foundation.