{{short description|American scholar of Islam}} {{Infobox scientist | name = David Commins | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 1954 | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | residence = | citizenship = | field = Islamic Studies | work_institution = Dickinson College | alma_mater = | doctoral_advisor = | doctoral_students = | author_abbreviation_bot = | author_abbreviation_zoo = | prizes = | footnotes =}} '''David Commins''' (born 1954) is an American scholar and Professor of History and Benjamin Rush Chair in the Liberal Arts and Sciences (1987) at Dickinson College.<ref>{{cite web |title=David Commins |url=https://www.oasiscenter.eu/en/david-commins|website=Fondazione Internazionale Oasis}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Dickinson College online information |url=https://www.dickinson.edu/site/custom_scripts/dc_faculty_profile_index.php?fac=commins |website=www.dickinson.edu}}</ref> He is known for his works on Wahhabism.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Robinson |first1=Francis|title=Review of The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia|journal=Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society |date=2006|volume=16|issue=3|pages=320–322|doi=10.1017/S1356186306286474 |jstor=25188657 |s2cid=164054440 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25188657|issn=1356-1863|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Traboulsi|first1=Samer|title=David Commins The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia, Library of Modern Middle East Studies 50 (London: I. B. Tauris, 2006). p. 288. $85.00 cloth.|journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies|date=November 2008 |volume=40|issue=4|pages=671–672|doi=10.1017/S0020743808081543 |s2cid=161387893 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-middle-east-studies/article/abs/david-commins-the-wahhabi-mission-and-saudi-arabia-library-of-modern-middle-east-studies-50-london-i-b-tauris-2006-pp-288-8500-cloth/C529EF1A68B735A6F97AB8A940C0BE06|language=en|issn=1471-6380|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
== See also == * Namira Nahouza
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