Welcome to the homepage of Kumiko YAGI, Professor of Arab/Islamic Studies at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Email: kuyagi@tufs.ac.jp

Phone: (+81) 42-330-5336

Mail: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 3-11-1, Asahi-cho, Fuchu, Tokyo, 183-8534, Japan

My research addresses the questions: how does globalization affect the inner structure of Islam?

              (1) is religious authority of Ulama contracting in favor of ‘lay’ preachers and activists?

              (2) is the distinction between center and periphery, both geographical and chronological, disappearing?

Teaching Positions

               Professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 2004~present

               Assistant Professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 1996~2004

               Junior Instructor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 1993~1996

Education

              PhD in Study of Religion from Harvard University, 2001

              MA in Study of Religion from Harvard University, 1993

              MA in Study of Religion from Tokyo University, 1990

              BA from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 1982

Grants/Fellowships (Selected)

             Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) 2008-2011

             Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) 2004-2007

             Harvard University, Fellow, Center for the Study of World Religions 1991-1993

Publications (Selected)

             *English

             ‘Islam as Reflected in Arab Muslim Discourses on Otherness’　Annals of Japan Association for Middle East Studies,              
              No.22-1, 2006, p.115-p.121.

             ‘Women’s Position in Contemporary Muslim Society’, Women and Religion, Tenri Yamato Culture Congress & The             
              Center  for Women and Religion, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, 2003, p. 51-p.62.

             *Japanese

              “Varying Forms of Islam: Challenges of ‘Laicization’”, Trans-Cultural Studies, vol.13, 2010, p.119-p.134.

              “Muslim Star Televangelists”, Area and Cultural Studies, vol.76, 2009, p.117-p.133.

              “Deterritorialization of Muslim Identity: From the Perspective of British Muslims”, Trans-Cultural Studies, vol.11,            
               p.61-p.75, 2008.

              Images of the Other in the Arab-Muslim World, Tokyo: Gendaitosyo, 2007.

              Mahfouz, Literature and Islam, Tokyo: Daisansyokan, 2007.

             “Islam as ‘Our’ values”, Trans-Cultural Studies, vol.8, 2005, p.4-p.17

              “Islam of a Sufi Saint Fighting against ‘America’”, Religious Studies, vol.78-341,  2004, p.325-p.348.

              “Life between Two Deaths: Muslim View of Life and Death”, Gendai Syukyou, 2004, p.229-p.249.

              “'America’ Described by Two Arab Novelists”, Trans-Cultural Studies, vol.7, 2004, p.27-p.38.

Associations and Conferences

              Japanese Association for Religious Studies (Director)

             Association for Islamic Studies in Japan (Councilor)

             The Japanese Association for the Study of Religion and Society

             Japan Association for Middle East Studies

             The Middle East Studies Association of North America

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