
William E. B. Sherman
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
UNC-Charlotte

In collaboration with some colleagues in Münster and Napoli, I've been exploring Muslim-Jesuit encounters and interactions in the Mughal and Safavid worlds. Part of this project has involved the editing and translation of a major work by the Jesuit missionary Jerome Xavier, entitled The Truth-Revealing Mirror ("A'ina-yi Haqq-numa"). I edited the translation of the major text by Haila Manteghi, and I've translated the summary version. All of this should be published by Brill in 2026.
​
In addition to that, however, I've also been tracking down some weirdo texts (to use proper academic language) that have, in part, been generated by these interreligious encounters and debates. In 2026, an article called "Suras of the Torah" will be published with Mission Studies, and a chapter entitled "Psalms of Allah" will be published (also in 2026) as part of an edited volume. Both of these works investigate a series of texts inscribed by Muslims in Persian and English that present themselves as recoveries of the uncorrupted revelations given to Abraham, Moses, and David. And, more recently, I just found a similar manuscript that claims to include the revelations of the Injil given to Jesus. That last manuscript will form a major component of a chapter in my Raids on the Revelational book.