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== Academic Interests==
==Academic Interests==
Dr. Ruffle's research and teaching interests focus on devotional texts, ritual practice, and [[Shiʿa|Shiʿi]] material practices in South Asia. She has conducted field research in [[India]], [[Pakistan]], [[Iran]], and [[Syria]]. Her publications focus on [[Fatima]]’s exceptional embodiment in Shiʿi hagiographical narratives; devotional literature and ritual practices in South Asia that centre on Fatima and His family; and Urdu didactic hagiographical narratives focusing on the special father-daughter relationship between the [[Prophet Muhammad]] and Fatima.
Dr. Ruffle's research and teaching interests focus on devotional texts, ritual practice, and [[Shiʿa|Shiʿi]] material practices in South Asia. She has conducted field research in [[India]], [[Pakistan]], [[Iran]], and [[Syria]]. Her publications focus on [[Fatima]]’s exceptional embodiment in Shiʿi hagiographical narratives; devotional literature and ritual practices in South Asia that centre on Fatima and His family; and Urdu didactic hagiographical narratives focusing on the special father-daughter relationship between the [[Prophet Muhammad]] and Fatima.


She made speech with  title of "Savoring [[Karbala]]: Sensory Aesthetics in [[Muharram]] Material and Ritual Practice in Hyderabad in Cornell University  on first September in 2016.
She made speech with  title of "Savoring [[Karbala]]: Sensory Aesthetics in [[Muharram]] Material and Ritual Practice in Hyderabad in Cornell University  on first September in 2016.


== Educations ==
==Educations==
* PhD in Islamic studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2007
* M.A. in Islamic studies University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill . 2001
* B.A. in Religion from Middlebury College, 1996


== Honors ==
*PhD in Islamic studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 2007
*M.A. in Islamic studies University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill . 2001
*B.A. in Religion from Middlebury College, 1996


* Honourary Fellow, The Shiʿah Institute (United Kingdom), January 2016 – present.
==Honors==
* Cultural Research of the Year (Second Award), Islamic Culture and Guidance Ministry of Iran. Award for M.A. thesis, “’Verses Dripping Blood’: A Study of the Religious Elements of [[Muhtasham Kashani]]’s [[Karbala]]-nameh” (2002).


== Publications ==
*Honourary Fellow, The Shiʿah Institute (United Kingdom), January 2016 – present.
*Cultural Research of the Year (Second Award), Islamic Culture and Guidance Ministry of Iran. Award for M.A. thesis, “’Verses Dripping Blood’: A Study of the Religious Elements of [[Muhtasham Kashani]]’s [[Karbala]]-nameh” (2002).


* ''[https://www.amazon.com/Karen-G.-Ruffle/e/B004I8FESI%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Gender, Sainthood, and Everyday Practice in South Asian Shi’ism]''
==Publications==


=== Publications on Muharram and Rituals===
*''[https://www.amazon.com/Karen-G.-Ruffle/e/B004I8FESI%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Gender, Sainthood, and Everyday Practice in South Asian Shi’ism]''


* Writing Muharram: The Influence of Mulla Husain Va‘ez Kashefi and Mohtasham Kashani on the Development of Shi‘i Devotionalism in the Medieval Deccan. A Thousand Laurels—Dr. Sadiq Naqvi: Studies on Medieval India with Special Reference to Deccan. Hyderabad: Osmania University, 2005. Pp. 334-345.
===Publications on Muharram and Rituals===
* [[Karbala]] in the Indo-Persian Imaginaire: The Marriage of [[Qasim]] and Fatimah Kubra in Mir Alam’s Dah Majlis. Islam in the Indo-Iranian World during the Modern Epoch,1500-1900. Fabrizio Speziale and Denis Hermann, eds., 181-200. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Publishers, 2010.


=== Papers on Imam Hussain and Battle of Karbala===
*Writing Muharram: The Influence of Mulla Husain Va‘ez Kashefi and Mohtasham Kashani on the Development of Shi‘i Devotionalism in the Medieval Deccan. A Thousand Laurels—Dr. Sadiq Naqvi: Studies on Medieval India with Special Reference to Deccan. Hyderabad: Osmania University, 2005. Pp. 334-345.
*[[Karbala]] in the Indo-Persian Imaginaire: The Marriage of [[Qasim b. al-Hasan|Qasim]] and Fatimah Kubra in Mir Alam’s Dah Majlis. Islam in the Indo-Iranian World during the Modern Epoch,1500-1900. Fabrizio Speziale and Denis Hermann, eds., 181-200. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Publishers, 2010.


* [https://voices.uchicago.edu/mehat/conference/archive/mehat18/ Setting Fire to the World: Experiencing Hazrat Zaynab bint ‘Ali in Muhtasham Kashani’s Karbala-nameh. Middle East History and Theory Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (May 2003).]
===Papers on Imam Hussain and Battle of Karbala===
* Take Me to [[Karbala]]: [[Zaynab|Hazrat Zaynab bint ‘Ali and]] the Shi‘i Community of Remembrance, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA (November 2003).
* The Saddest Story Ever Told: The Women of Karbala as Epic Heroines in South Asian Shi‘i Devotional Literature and Performance. Middle East Studies Association, Montréal, PQ (November 2007)
* The Role of Ladies in [[Karbala]] from Lady Fatima Az-Zahra to [[Zaynab|Lady Zaynab]]. Invited public lecture at Payam-e Aman Shiʿa Association for Imam Hussain Day, Somerset, NJ (8 December 2013).
* A Death Never-ending: Theoretical Reflections on the Ritualized Recurrence of [[Imam Hussain]]’s Becoming and Death in Shiʿism. 10th International Society for Iranian Studies Biennial Conference, Montréal, PQ (August 2014).


== Source ==
*[https://voices.uchicago.edu/mehat/conference/archive/mehat18/ Setting Fire to the World: Experiencing Hazrat Zaynab bint ‘Ali in Muhtasham Kashani’s Karbala-nameh. Middle East History and Theory Conference, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (May 2003).]
*Take Me to [[Karbala]]: [[Zaynab|Hazrat Zaynab bint ‘Ali and]] the Shi‘i Community of Remembrance, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA (November 2003).
*The Saddest Story Ever Told: The Women of Karbala as Epic Heroines in South Asian Shi‘i Devotional Literature and Performance. Middle East Studies Association, Montréal, PQ (November 2007)
*The Role of Ladies in [[Karbala]] from Lady Fatima Az-Zahra to [[Zaynab|Lady Zaynab]]. Invited public lecture at Payam-e Aman Shiʿa Association for Imam Hussain Day, Somerset, NJ (8 December 2013).
*A Death Never-ending: Theoretical Reflections on the Ritualized Recurrence of [[Imam Hussain]]’s Becoming and Death in Shiʿism. 10th International Society for Iranian Studies Biennial Conference, Montréal, PQ (August 2014).


* [https://www.religion.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/karen-ruffle Karen G. Ruffle's personal Websit]
==Source==
 
*[https://www.religion.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/karen-ruffle Karen G. Ruffle's personal Websit]


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