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Reiko OKAWA
Professor in the Faculty of International Studies
Meiji Gakuin University
1518 Kamikurata-cho, Totsuka-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa, 244-8539, JAPAN
Tel& Fax: +81-45-863-2261
Email: okawa@k.meijigakuin.ac.jp

Education
Ph. D.

University of Tokyo, Islamic Studies (2003).

M. A.

School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London,Islamic Studies (2000).

M. A.

University of Tokyo, Islamic Studies (1996).

B. A.

University of Tokyo, Islamic Studies (1994).

Study Abroad
1998-1999: Egypt
2000-2001: Jordan
Working Experience
April 2003-March2006: Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion ofScience (PD).
April 2004-March2006: Hosei University, Japan. Part-time lecturer: Islamic World.
April 2004-March2006: Yokohama National University, Japan. Part-time lecture:
Comparative Culture.
April 2006-March 2009: Meiji Gakuin University, Japan. Lecturer: Islamic Culture.
April 2009-March 2017: Meiji Gakuin University, Japan. Associate Professor: IslamicCulture.
April 2013-March 2014: Documentation Center of Cambodia. Visiting Scholar
April 2017-Present: Meiji Gakuin University, Japan. Professor: Islamic Culture.
Professional MembershipJapan Association for Middle East Studies
Association for Islamic Studies in Japan
Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan

2Japanese Association for Religious Studies
International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR)
Books
Liberal Islam: A Lecture to be Yourself, Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2021[in Japanese].
The Qur’ān: Who hears the Word of God?, Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2018[in Japanese].
The Kingdom of Champa and Islam: The Identity of the Diaspora People in Cambodia, Tokyo:Heibonsha, 2017 [in Japanese].
Islamized World: Religion in a time of Globalization, Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2013 [in Japanese].
Destiny and Revelation in Islam: “Heavenly Tablet” as seen in the history of Qur’ānicInterpretation, Tokyo: Koyoshobo, 2009 [in Japanese].
An Illustrated Guide to the World of the Qur’ān: All about the History and Beauty of theManuscripts, Tokyo: Kawadeshoboshinsha, 2005 [in Japanese].
The Thought of the Qur’ān: An Islamic World View, Tokyo: Kodansha, 2004 [in Japanese].
Refereed Journal Article“The Religious Others in the Qur’ān and Conversion: Farid Esack on Pluralism and Reza ShahKazemi on Interfaith Dialogue,” Australian Journal of Islamic Studies 6, no. 3 (2021):
36-55. (View of The Religious Others in the Qur’ān and Conversion (ajis.com.au))“Interpretation of Ḥawwā’ (Eve) in Contemporary Egypt: Tafsīr (Interpretation of the Qur’ān)of Muḥammad Mitwallī al-Sha‘rāwī and Muḥammad Sayyid Ṭanṭāwī,” Orient 56 (2020)“Interpretation of the Quran in Contemporary India: Wahiduddin Khan’s Reading of Peace andSpirituality in the Scripture”, International Journal of Islamic Thought 16 (2019): 108121. (http://www.ukm.my/ijit/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/IJIT-Vol-16-Dec-2019_10_108121.pdf)“Hidden Islamic Literature in a Cambodian Village: The Cham in the Khmer Rouge Period,”International & Regional Studies 45(2014): 1-20.
“Contemporary Muslim Intellectuals who Publish Tafsīr Works in English: The Authority ofInterpreters of the Qur’ān,” Orient 48(2013): 57-77.
“Amina Wadud’s Methodology of the Qur’ān: Inheritance and Development of Fazlur
Rahman’s Theology,” International and Regional Studies 35(2009): 35-52 [in Japanese].
“Muslim View of the Scripture: The Qur’ān (Koran) for Young People of Today,” Internationaland Regional Studies 31(2007): 33-54 [in Japanese].
“An Islamic View of Animals: Focusing on some Qur’ānic Verses,” Studies on the View ofAnimals 9(2004): 3-8 [in Japanese].

3“The Formation of the Revelation (Inzāl) Theory of the Qur’ān,” the World of Islam 59(2002):
1-22 [in Japanese].
“Kitāb (‘what is written’) and Predestination: The Qur’ān, ‘Heavenly Tablet’ and ‘RecordBook’,” Orient 45/1(2002): 142-15 [in Japanese].
“On the Reception of the Qur’ān through a Prayer on ‘Isti‘ādhah’,” Orient 40/1(1997): 90-105[in Japanese].
Keynote speech“Beyond ‘Fundamentalism’, Toward a New Understanding of Islam: A Shift in Japanese
Awareness,” International & Regional Studies 43 (2013): 12-19.
Chapter in Book
“Contemporary Qur’an Interpreters and Exile as ‘Crossing the Border’: Fazlur Rahman and Nasr Abu
Zayd,” Kubota, H. et. al., eds., Transcending Borders in the History of Religion, Vol.2 (Lithon,2020): 299-328[in Japanese].

“Interpretation of the Qur’an in the World and Japan : Towards the Diversity of Reading” inIslam and the Qur’an in Japan Editing Committee, ed., Islam and the Qur’an in Japan(Koyo Shobo, 2020), pp. 57-90 [in Japanese].
“A Modern Qur’anic Interpretation of Indian Shi‘i Minority Muslim: Asghar Engineer’s Reformof Women’s Status” Kenkyu Toyo 10(2020), pp. 81-100 [in Japanese]; English Abstract,p. lxxii.
“Can We Argue with Fate?: Destiny and Freedom,” What is Freedom? (Tokyo: Iwanamishoten,2012) : 61-100 [in Japanese].
“The Kōran and Reading the Kōran: To the Depth of Language,” in The Islamic World of Izutsu
Toshihiko, eds. Sakamoto Tsutomu and Matsubara Shū’ichi (Tokyo: Keiōgijuku
Shuppankai, 2012) [in Japanese].
“An Islamic View on Revelation: Fakhr al-Dīn Rāzī’s View on Waḥy,” in Scripture and Man,eds. Yu Ichikawa and Shigeru Kamada (Tokyo: Taimeido, 1998): 187-205 [in Japanese].
Translation
Michel Cook, The Koran, Tokyo: Iwanamishoten, 2005 [in Japanese].
Book Reviews
The Qur’ān: the Voice of Islam by Yasushi Kosugi (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2009) [inJapanese], Journal of Annals of Japan Association for Middle East Studies 26(2010):
185-189.

4Searching the Origin of Islam: For a Deeper Understanding of the Real World by Shinya Makino(Tokyo: Chuokoron Shinsha, 2005) [in Japanese], the World of Islam 68(2007): 94-97[inJapanese].
Introduction to the Qur’ān by Richard Bell, trans. by Io Hideyuki (Tokyo: Chikuma Shobo, 2003)[in Japanese], the World of Islam 62(2004): 88-91 [in Japanese].
Encyclopedia Articles“ ‘Ulamā’,” Encyclopedia of World Religion (Tokyo: Maruzen), 2012 [in Japanese].
“Richard Bell, Introduction to the Qur’ān”, Basic Literatures in Religious Studies (Tokyo:Kobundo), 2007:347 [in Japanese].
“ ‘The Qur’ān,” Encyclopedia of Contemporary Ethics (Tokyo: Kobundo), 2006: 312-313 [inJapanese].
“Sabbath,” “the Garden of Eden,” “the Ten Commandments,” “the Ascension” and “theMessiah” etc. (in total, 39articles), Iwanami Dictionary of Islam (Tokyo: IwanamiShoten), 2002 [in Japanese].
Non Referred Journal Articles“The Lost Magic Book of the Cham: The Muslim Minority in Contemporary Cambodia Authors,”
International & Regional Studies 48(2015): 77-90 & 49(2016): 71-84 [in Japanese]“Hidden Islamic Literature in Cambodia: The Cham in the Pol Pot Period,” Searching for theTruth (Special English Edition, Third Quarter, 2013): 20-22.
“Islam in Hawai’i: The House of an American Billionaire Woman and Muslim Immigrants,”
International & Regional Studies 40(2011), 95-99.
“The ‘Uthmānic Codex in Uzbekistan: The ‘World’s Oldest’ Codex of the Qur’ān,”International and Regional Studies 37(2010): 87-93 [in Japanese].
“The Birth of a Conference on the Qur’ān: A Report on the Conference on ‘the Qur’an---Text,Translation and Interpretation’ ,” The World of Islam, 58(2002): 111-115 [in Japanese].
“Muslim Thought on Counter-Terrorism and its Educational Practice in the UK: Tahir-ul-Qadri’s
Fatwa (Legal Opinion),” International & Regional Studies 50(2017) : 163-180 [InJapanese].
Refereed Presentations“Fethullah Gülen’s Interpretation of the Qur’ān as a Contemporary Tafsīr: Tradition andModernity,” The Hizmet Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, December 09, 2012.

5“Japanese Translations of the Qur’ān: Transitions in style and stance,” International Association
for the History of Religions (IAHR) World Congress, University of Tronto, Canada,
August 20, 2010.
“An Islamic View of Animals,” the Society of Studies on the Relationship between People andAnimals Annual Conference, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan,November 2003 [in Japanese].
“Predestination and ‘Heavenly Tablet’: Interpretation of Qur’ān 13:39,” Japanese Association for
Religious Studies Annual Conference, Tokyo, Japan, September 2003 [in Japanese].
“Prophets in Islam and Kitāb (‘what is written’): Increase of the Precedent Scriptures,” Societyfor Near Eastern Studies in Japan Annual Conference, Tohoku University, Japan, October
2002 [in Japanese].
“‘What is written’ and Predestination in Islamic Thought: ‘Heavenly Tablet’ and ‘Record Book’,”Society for Near Eastern Studies in Japan Annual Conference, Wako University, Japan,October 2001 [in Japanese].
“On the Reception of the Qur’ān through a Prayer on ‘Isti‘ādhah’,” Society for Near EasternStudies in Japan Annual Conference, Heian Jogakuin College, Japan, October 1996 [inJapanese].