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For more events from the Global Islamic Studies Center at the University of Michigan, please visit ii.umich.edu\/islamicstudies.\n\n\n\nMeet the speaker:\n\nDr. Younus Y. Mirza is the Founding Director of the Barzinji Institute for Global Virtual Learning at Shenandoah University, Virginia. He defended his dissertation in Arabic and Islamic Studies from Georgetown University, where he is currently a visiting researcher. He has also taught at Millsaps and Allegheny Colleges. His research focuses on the relationship between the Bible and the Qur\u2019an and the shared stories between them. He is the author of the new book *The Islamic Mary: Maryam Through the Centuries*, co-author of the book *The Bible and the Qur\u2019an: Biblical Figures in the Islamic Tradition*, and has published in journals such as the *Journal of the American Academy of Religion (JAAR)*, the *Journal of Qur\u2019anic Studies (JQS) *and *Islam Christian-Muslim Relations (ICMR)*. 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