{"id":9790,"date":"2026-07-18T15:55:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T14:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9790"},"modified":"2026-08-28T12:51:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T11:51:26","slug":"john-esposito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/07\/18\/john-esposito\/","title":{"rendered":"John Esposito"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The widely respected scholar John Esposito has passed away. His work has influenced generations of academics\/students, especially works such as \u2018The Straight Path\u2018, alongside his editorship of the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-bluesky-social wp-block-embed-bluesky-social\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mqtxrabvtk2y\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreidaksox5oyykoebtqxoimtoqclngcyx5btcbhw2bbycxqfshzhe6a\"><p lang=\"en\">The highly influential academic John Esposito has died. His work significantly impacted the contemporary study of Islam and is very popular with students.<\/p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mqtxrabvtk2y?ref_src=embed\">2026-07-17T14:32:50.526Z<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The widely respected scholar John Esposito has passed away. His work has influenced generations of academics\/students, especially works such as \u2018The Straight Path\u2018, alongside his editorship of the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,5],"tags":[381,89],"class_list":["post-9790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-research","tag-academia","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9791,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9790\/revisions\/9791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}