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Sandra Campbell

photo of Sandra CampbellSandra Campbell (University of California, Los Angeles, 2003) teaches courses on the history of Middle East and Islamic Societies as well as world history. Her research interests include the historical memory of early Islam, early Islamic apocalypticism, heroic death and martyrdom in medieval and modern Islamic societies, and medieval brotherhoods that embraced strikingly altruistic Islamic ethics (futuwwa groups). She is currently revising her dissertation on the historical memory of Islamic history's second civil war. She has published articles on Islamic apocalyptic traditions and has presented several conference papers on the historiography of early Islam.