السيرة الذاتية لمستشرق Carl W. Ernst
Carl W. Ernst
1906
Clearwater Lake Rd., Chapel Hill , NC 27517
919-929-4594
(home); 919-962-3924 (office); 919-962-1567 (fax)
cernst@email.unc.edu;
http://www.unc.edu/~cernst
PROFESSIONAL
HISTORY
Principal
positions
Department
of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
§ William
R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor (2005- )
§ Zachary
Smith Distinguished Term Professor (2000-2005)
§ Chair
(1995-2000)
§ Professor
(1992-2000)
Department
of Religion, Pomona College , Claremont ,
California
§ Chair
(Jan. 1991-June 1992)
§ Associate
Professor (1987-92)
§ Assistant
Professor (1981-87)
Affiliate
and advisory positions
University
of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Centre for Civilisational Dialogue, Advisory Panel (2008-2010); Academy of Islamic Studies,
External Assessor (2008-2014); Visiting Scholar and Research Fellow (Jan.-May,
2005; Sept.-Oct., 2010)
Boston
University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations:
Board of Academic Advisers (2007-9)
École
des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales,
Paris: Professeur Invité, (May, 2003); Maitre de Conference (May-June, 1991)
University
of Seville, Spain, Department of Integrated Philologies, Area of Arabic
Studies: Visiting Scholar (September-December, 2001)
National
College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan, Graduate Program in Communications and
Cultural Studies: External Examiner (2000-8)
EDUCATION
The
Study of Religion, special field Comparative Religion, with major in Islamic
Studies, minor in Greek Philosophy. Dissertation adviser: Prof. Annemarie
Schimmel.
Humanities
Special Programs with Concentration in Religious Studies.
HONORS AND GRANTS
Honors
and Individual Research Grants
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellowship, 2010.
UNC Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research
Fellowship, spring 2010.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected Fellow,
2009.
Academic Leadership Fellow, Institute for the
Arts and Humanities, UNC, spring 2009.
Farabi International Award in the Humanities and
Islamic Studies, Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology/UNESCO/ISESCO
(Tehran, 2008), for Ruzbihan Baqli: Mysticism
and the Rhetoric of Sainthood in Persian Sufism.
Award for Following Muhammad: Rethinking
Islam in the Contemporary World, from Shiraz University and the Iranian
Research Institute in Philosophy (Shiraz, 2007).
Cenan Foundation for Culture, Education and
Health, Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching of Sufism (Istanbul,
2005), for Following Muhammad.
Istanbul Branch of Turkish Women’s Cultural
Association, Award for Excellence in Education (Istanbul
Turkish Economics and Social Research Foundation
Award (Istanbul
Fulbright Fellowship in Islamic Studies, Malaysia,
spring 2005.
2004 Bashrahil Prize for Outstanding Cultural
Achievement, Distinguished Prize in the Humanities (Cairo, 2004), for Following
Muhammad.
“Consulting
on the Teaching of Religious Studies and Islamic Studies in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan
Fulbright
Senior Fellowship in Islamic Studies, University of Seville, fall 2001.
W. N.
Reynolds Research Leave, University
of North Carolina
Fellow,
Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North
Carolina
Summer
Research Grant, UNC Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, summer 2000.
Research
Grant, American Institute
of Pakistan Studies Islamabad
National
Endowment for the Humanities Summer Research Grant, 1993.
Fulbright
Research Fellowship, Pakistan
Travel
Grant, American Research Institute in Turkey
National
Endowment for the Humanities Translation Grant (Arabic), for "The Pool of the Water of Life: An
Islamic Interpretation of Yoga," 1989-90.
American
Council of Learned Societies, Travel Grant for International Conference (Germany
Fulbright
Islamic Civilization Research Fellowship, 1986. Research Affiliation: Centre
for South Asian Studies, University of the Punjab, Lahore , Pakistan
Senior
Research Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies, June-December 1981.
Research Affiliation: Department of History, Deccan College Postgraduate
Research Institute, Pune , India
Foreign
Language Area Studies Fellowship, 1979-80 (Persian).
Fulbright-Hays
Fellowship for Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad, 1978-79. Research
Affiliation: Centre for Advanced Study in History, Aligarh
Muslim University ,
Aligarh , India
National
Defense Foreign Language Fellowship, 1976-78 (Persian).
A.B.
Honors with Departmental Distinction, 1973.
National
Merit Scholar, 1968-72.
Institutional
Grants
Principal Investigator (with miriam cooke, Duke
University [Co-PI], US Department of Education Title VI National
Resource Center for Middle East Studies, 2010-14.
Principal Investigator, “Building Turkish
Studies at UNC,” Matching Seed-Money Grant for New Position in Turkish Language
Instruction, Institute of Turkish Studies, 2009-12.
Co-Principal
Investigator (with Charles Kurzman). “Islamic
Studies and Area Studies,” Social Sciences Research Council project on “Internationalization,
Inter-disciplinarity and Boundary Crossing: An Evaluation of Title VI National
Resource Centers for the Middle East, Eurasia and South Asia.” May-Sept. 2009.
Principal
Investigator, U.S.
Co-Principal
Investigator (with Charles Kurzman ),
“Implementing Muslim Networks,” North Carolina Networking Initiative graduate
research assistant grant program, 2001-2002.
Co-Principal
Investigator (with Tony Stewart ,
NCSU [PI], and Katherine P. Ewing, Duke
University [Co-PI]), US Department of
Education Title VI National Resource Center
for South Asia Studies, 2000-2003.
Principal
Investigator, "Using advanced technologies to support international
Islamic studies," North Carolina Networking Initiative graduate research
assistant grant program, 2000-1.
UNC
Library Liaison and Critical Language Program coordinator for North Carolina
Center for South Asian Studies Grant, US Department of Education Title VI
Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Program, 1999-2002.
Principal
Investigator, "Islamic Studies Curricular Resource WebSite," IBM/UNC
Curricular Innovation Grant, 1999-2000.
Principal
Investigator, "Muslim Networks in the Information Age," North
Carolina Networking Initiative graduate research assistant grant program,
1999-2000.
Co-Principal
Investigator (with Russel Van Wyk [PI] and Diane Strauss [Co-PI]), "A
Scalable and Sustainable Infrastructure for an Instructional Multimedia
Database," IBM/UNC Curricular Innovation Grant, 1999-2000.
Director,
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers,
June-July, 1999. Topic: "The
Literature of Islamic Mysticism.”
Principal
Investigator, "Religion and Society in the 21st Century: A View
from the Public University
Principal
Investigator, "Multimedia Religious Studies Database and Web
Presence," UNC Chancellor's Instructional Technology Grant, 1996-97.
Co-Principal
Investigator (with Margaret E. Moore [PI] et al.), "Multimedia Database
Prototype," UNC Chancellor's Instructional Technology Grant, 1995-96.
Co-Principal
Investigator (with Tony Stewart ,
North Carolina State University [PI], and John
Richards , Duke University [Co-PI]), "Integrating South
Asia Studies Curricula through Core Course and Shared Language Instruction in
the Research Triangle Universities of North Carolina," US Department of
Education, Title VI Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language
Program, 1995-98.
Co-Director
(with Tony K. Stewart, North
Carolina State University South
Asia ."
Core
faculty member of Humanities Institute on "South Asian Islam and the
Greater Muslim World," a resident scholar program at the North Carolina
Triangle universities funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, 1994-1997. Host
organizer, 1996 conference.
LANGUAGES
Speaking
and reading knowledge of Persian, Urdu, Spanish, French.
Reading
knowledge of classical Arabic, German, Italian, Greek, Latin.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
How to
Read the Qur'an: A New Guide with Select Translations. Chapel
Hill , NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
Following
Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World. Chapel Hill , NC : University of North Carolina
§ Persian
translation by Ghasem Kakaie: Iqtida bi-Muhammad: Nigarishi naw bi-islam dar
jahan-i mu`asir, Tehran: Hermes Press, 2011. Winner of Book of the Year
prize from the Iranian Ministry of Culture, 2011.
§ Arabic
translation by Hamza Halayqa `Ala nahj Muhammad: I`adat al-tafkir fil-Islam fil-`alam
al-mu`asir, Beirut: Arab Scientific Publishers, 2008.
§ German
translation by Kurt Maier, Mohammed folgen: Der Islam in der modernen Welt.
Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co., 2007.
§ Turkish
translation by Cangüzel Zülfikar: Hz.
Muhammed’in Yolunda: Günümüz Dünyasında İslâmiyeti Yeniden Düşünmek, Istanbul
§ Korean
translation, Seoul
§ India
edition, New Delhi
§ UK
edition: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World. Edinburgh :
University of Edinburgh
Sufi Martyrs of Love: Chishti Sufism in South Asia and Beyond (co-authored with
Bruce B. Lawrence). New York
§ Excerpt:
“What is a Sufi Order?”, pp. 11-26. In Sufism, ed. Lloyd Ridgeon, Critical
Concepts in Islamic Studies (London: Routledge, 2008), vol. 1, essay 11.
Teachings of Sufism. Boston
§ India
edition, New Delhi
§ Turkish
translation by Cangüzel Zülfikar, Istanbul
Guide to Sufism. Boston
§ New
edition: Sufism: An Introduction to
Islamic Mysticism. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2010.
§ Russian
translation by A. Gorkavago: Sufizm. Moscow
§ Persian
translation of chapter 1 by Ma`suma
Amin-Dihqan, “Tarikhche-yi vorud-i mafhum-i tasavvuf ba-gharb,” in `Irfan-i Iran
13 (Tehran
§ Greek
translation by Sophia Leibadopolou: Souphismos. Athens
§ Italian translation by
Laura Franco: Il grande libro della
sapienza sufi. Milan
§ India
edition, New Delhi
§
Spanish translation by Joan Carles Guix: Sufismo, Guías de Sabiduría Oriental, 4.
Barcelona: Oniro, 1999.
Ruzbihan
Baqli. The Unveiling of Secrets: Diary of a Sufi Master. Translated from
the Arabic by Carl W. Ernst. Chapel
Hill NC
Ruzbihan Baqli: Mysticism and the
Rhetoric of Sainthood in Persian Sufism. Curzon Sufi Series, 4. London
§ Revised
Persian translation and notes by Kurus Divsalar: Ruzbihan Baqli, tajriba-i `irfani va shath-i vilayat dar tasavvuf-i
irani. Tehran
§ Persian
translation by Majdoddin Keyvani: Ruzbihan
Baqli, `irfan va shath-i awliya' dar tasavvuf-i islami. Tehran
Eternal Garden :
Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South Asian
Sufi Center South Asia . State University
of New York
§ Excerpt:
“The Indian Environment and the Question of Conversion.” In Raziuddin Aquil,
ed., Sufism and Society in Medieval India, Debates in Indian History and
Society Series (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 82-101.
§ 2nd
edition, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Words of Ecstasy in Sufism. SUNY
Series in Islam. Albany : State
University of New York
§ Excerpt:
“Topics and Forms of Expression,” pp. 25-45. In Sufism, ed. Lloyd
Ridgeon, Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies (London: Routledge, 2008), vol.
1, essay 9.
§ 2nd
edition, London: Archetype, forthcoming.
§ Malaysian
translation, Kuala Lumpur
Edited
volumes
Co-Editor (with Richard C. Martin), Rethinking Islamic Studies: From Post-Orientalism
to Cosmopolitanism (Columbia SC: University of South Carolina
Press, 2010); co-author of “Introduction: Toward a Post-Orientalist Islamic
Approach to Islamic Religious Studies” (pp. 1-22) and author of "The
Perils of Civilizational Islam in Malaysia” (pp. 266-80).
Pakistan at the Millennium, edited by Charles Kennedy, Kathleen McNeil, Carl Ernst , and David
Gilmartin . Karachi : Oxford University
Associate
editor (with Grace Martin Smith), Manifestations
of Sainthood in Islam. Istanbul : The Isis
Press, 1993; also principal author of "Introduction," pp. xi-xxviii; author
of article "An Indo-Persian Guide to Sufi Shrine Pilgrimage," pp.
43-67; abridged version of the latter reprinted in Tales of God’s Friends:
Islamic Hagiography in Translation, ed. John Renard (University of
California Press, 2009), pp. 269-85.
Articles
in journals and collective volumes
"Wakened by
the Dove’s Trill: Structure and Meaning in the Arabic Preface of Rumi’s Mathnawi,
Book IV.” In The Philosophy of Ecstasy: Rumi and the Sufi Tradition, ed.
Leonard Lewisohn (London: I. B. Tauris, forthcoming in 2012).
"'A Little
Indicates Much': Structure and Meaning in the Prefaces of Rumi’s Mathnawi
(Books I-III)." In Wondrous Words: The Poetic Mastery of Jalal al-Din
Rumi, ed. Leonard Lewisohn (London: I. B. Tauris, forthcoming in 2012).
Translations
from Jalal al-Din Davani's Figures of
Houris, A Commentary on Suhrawardi's Temples
of Light (Book 5; Arabic), and The
Jalalian Ethics (Book 5; Persian), for An
Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, ed. S. H. Nasr and Mehdi Aminrazavi,
vol. 4 (London: Oneworld Publications, forthcoming).
"It's Not Just Academic – Writing Public
Scholarship in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies." Review of Middle East Studies (forthcoming).
"Rumi on the Sound of the Human Voice.” Keşkül: Sufi Gelenek ve
Hayat (forthcoming).
"Fayzi's Illuminationist Interpretation
of Vedanta: The Shariq al-Ma`rifa.” Comparative Studies of South
Asia, Africa and the Middle East 30/3 (2010), pp. 156-64.
“‘The West and Islam?’ Rethinking Orientalism
and Occidentalism.” Ishraq: Islamic Philosophy Yearbook (Moscow/Tehran),
vol. 1 (2010), pp. 23-34.
"Jalal
al-Din Davani's Interpretation of Hafiz." In Hafiz and the School of
Love in Persian Poetry, ed. Leonard Lewisohn (London: I. B. Tauris, 2010),
pp. 197-210.
“Muhammad as the Pole of Existence.” In The
Cambridge Companion to Muhammad, ed. Jonathan Brockopp (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 123-38.
"Sufism
and the Art of Penmanship according to Siraj al-Shirazi's Tuhfat al-Muhibbin
(1454)." Journal of the American Oriental Society 129.3 (2009), pp.
431-42.
§ Abridged version in Hadeeth
ad-Dar (Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah Museum, Kuwait) 27 (2008),
pp. 30-33.
“Islam and Sufism in Contemporary South Asia.”
In Sacred Spaces: A Journey with the Sufis of the Indus, by Samina
Quraeshi (Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum Press, 2009), pp. 21-40.
“The Daily Life
of a Saint, Ahmad Sirhindi (d. 1624), by Badr al-Din Sirhindi,” in Islam in
South Asia in Practice, ed. Barbara D. Metcalf (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2009), pp. 158-65.
"Being Careful with the Goddess: Yoginis in
Persian and Arabic Texts.” In Performing Ecstasy: The Poetics and Politics
of Religion in India, ed. Pallabi Chakrabarty and Scott
Kugle (Delhi: Manohar, 2009), pp. 189-203.
“Universalism
in Islamic Thought." Keynote address for International Symposium on
Religion and World Peace (Istanbul: Istanbul University, 2008), pp. 8-17.
“Beauty and the Feminine Element of
Spirituality.” In Women and Tasawwuf (Istanbul: Nefes, 2008), pp.
147-154.
“Accounts
of Yogis in Arabic and Persian Historical and Travel Texts.” Jerusalem
Studies in Arabic and Islam, vol. 33 (2008), pp. 409-426.
"Reading
Strategies for Introducing the Qur'an as Literature in an American Public
University Islamabad
“Sufism, Islam, and Globalization in the
Contemporary World: Methodological Reflections on a Changing Field of Study.”
In Memoriam: The 4th Victor Danner Memorial Lecture. Bloomington,
IN: Department of Near Eastern Languages, 2009.
§
Italian translation by Marco Cena of an earlier version: "Il
sufismo nel mondo musulmano contemporaneo: la 'divulgazione del segreto.'"
In Sufismo e
confraternite nell'islam contemporaneo: Il difficile equilibrio tra mistica e
politica, ed. Marietta Stepanyants (Turin, Italy: Edizioni della Fondazione
Giovanni Agnelli, 2003), pp. 301-324.
§
Reprint ed., in Islamic Spirituality and the Contemporary World,
ed. Azizan Baharuddin (Kuala Lumpur:
Centre for Civilisational Dialogue, University of Malaya, 2009).
"On
Losing One's Head: Hallajian themes in works attributed to `Attar." In Attar
and the Persian Sufi Tradition: The Art of Spiritual Flight, ed. Leonard Lewisohn
and Christopher Shackle (London : I. B. Tauris, 2006), pp. 330-343.
“Two
Versions of a Persian Text on Yoga and Cosmology, Attributed to Shaykh Mu`in
al-Din Chishti.” Elixir 2 (2006), pp. 69-76, 124-5.
“Fragmentary Versions of the Apocryphal ‘Hymn of
the Pearl Jerusalem
“Situating Sufism and Yoga.”
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Series 3, 15:1 (2005), pp.
15-43.
§ Reprint, in Sufism, ed. Lloyd
Ridgeon, Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies (London: Routledge, 2008), vol.
2, essay 24.
"Ideological and Technological Transformations
of Contemporary Sufism." In Muslim Networks: Medium, Metaphor,
and Method, ed. miriam cooke and Bruce B. Lawrence. Islamic Civilization
and Muslim Networks Series, 2. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina
“Khuldabad:
Dargahs of Shaykh Burhanuddin Gharib and Shaykh Zaynuddin Shirazi.” In Dargahs:
Abodes of the Saints, ed. Mumtaz Currim and George Michell, special issue
of Marg 56/1 (2004; reprint, 2011), pp. 104-19.
"The
Islamization of Yoga in the Amrtakunda Translations." Journal of the
Royal Asiatic Society, Series 3, 13:2 (2003), pp. 199-226.
"Muslim
Studies of Hinduism? A Reconsideration of Persian and Arabic Translations from
Sanskrit." Iranian Studies 36 (2003), pp. 173-95.
"Between
Orientalism and Fundamentalism: Problematizing the Teaching of Sufism." In
Teaching Islam, ed. Brannon Wheeler
(Oxford : Oxford University
"Sufism
and Philosophy in Mulla Sadra." In Islam-West Philosophical Dialogue:
The Papers presented at the World Congress on Mulla Sadra (May, 1999,
Tehran) (Tehran
§
Persian translation: “Tasavvuf va falsafa az nazar-i
Mulla Sadra.” In Majmu`a-i maqalat-i humayish-i jahani-i Mulla Sadra, avval
Khurdad ma 1378 – Tehran, Mulla Sadra va hikmat-i muta`aliya (Tehran:
Bunyad-i Hikmat-i Islami-i Sadra, 2001), 2:51-64.
"Abu
Nasr Muhammad Khalidi (d. 1406/1985): A Brief Memoir." The Annual of Urdu Studies 15 (2000),
pp. 305-13.
"Admiring
the Works of the Ancients: The Ellora Temples as viewed by Indo-Muslim
Authors." In Beyond Turk and Hindu:
Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia, ed. David Gilmartin and Bruce B. Lawrence (Gainseville , FL :
University Press of Florida
"Chishti
Meditation Practices of the Later Mughal Period." In The Heritage of Sufism, Volume 3: Late Classical Persianate Sufism (1501-1750): The Safavid and Mughal
Period (Oxford: Oneworld, 1999), pp. 344-57.
"Persecution
and Circumspection in the Shattari Sufi Order." In Islamic
Mysticism Contested: Thirteen Centuries of Controversies & Polemics,
ed. Fred De Jong and Berndt Radtke, Islamic History and Civilization: Studies
and Texts, 29 (Leiden: Brill, 1999), pp. 416-35.
"Vertical
Pilgrimage and Interior Landscape in the Visionary Diary of Ruzbihan
Baqli." Muslim World 88/2
(1998), pp. 129-40.
"Local
Cultural Nationalism as Anti-Fundamentalist Strategy in Pakistan Middle East 16 (1996), pp. 68-76.
"Sufism
and Yoga according to Muhammad Ghawth." Sufi 29 (Spring 1996), pp. 9-13.
§ Spanish translation
by Pedro Soto: “El Sufismo y Yoga según Muhammad Ghawth.” Sarasvati 9 (2006),
pp. 77-85.
"Royal
Policy and Patronage of Sufi Shrines in Mughul Revenue Documents from
Khuldabad." In Mediaeval Deccan
History, Commemoration Volume in Honour of Purshottam Mahadeo Joshi, ed. A.
R. Kulkarni, M. A. Nayeem, and R. de Souza (Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1996), pp. 76-93.
Translations
for Religions of India in Practice, ed. Donald S. Lopez, Jr.,
Princeton Readings in Religions, 1 (Princeton
University Press, 1995): "Lives of Sufi Saints" (Persian; pp.
495-512), "Conversations of Sufi Saints" (Persian; pp. 513-17), and
"India
"The
Interpretation of the Classical Sufi Tradition in India
§ Persian
translation by Karim Zayyani: "Tafsiri bar sunnat-i tasavvuf-i klasik-i Hindustan : Shamayil
al-atqiya', athar-i Rukn al-Din Kashani," in Sufi 24 (1373/1994), pp. 6-12.
"Ruzbihan
Baqli on Love as ‘Essential Desire.’" In Gott is schön und Er liebt die Schönheit/God is Beautiful and He Loves
Beauty: Festschrift für Annemarie Schimmel, ed. Alma Giese and J. Christoph
Bürgel (Bern: Peter Lang, 1994), pp. 181-89.
"The
Man without Attributes: Ibn `Arabi's Interpretation of Abu Yazid
al-Bistami." Journal of the
Muhyiddin Ibn `Arabi Society XIII (1993), pp. 1-18. Also in Muhyiddin: The Revivifier of the Way,
Proceedings of the Sixth Annual U.S.A.
"The
Khuldabad-Burhanpur Axis, and Local Sufism in the Deccan ."
In Islam and Indian Regions, ed. Anna
Libera Dallapiccola and Stephanie Zingel-Avé Lallemant, Beiträge zur
Südasienforschung, Südasien-Institut der Universität Heidelberg, 145
(Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1993), I, 169-83.
"Mystical
Language and the Teaching Context in the Early Sufi Lexicons." In Mysticism and Language, ed. Steven T.
Katz (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. 181-201.
"The
Stages of Love in Persian Sufism, from Rabi`a to Ruzbihan." In Classical Persian Sufism from its Origins to
Rumi, ed. Leonard Lewisohn (London: Khaniqahi Nimatullahi, 1994), pp.
435-55; also in Sufi 14 (1992), pp.
16-23; reprinted in The Heritage of
Sufism, Volume 1, Classical Persian
Sufism from its Origins to Rumi (700-1300), ed. Leonard Lewisohn (Oxford:
One World, 1999), pp. 435-55.
§ Persian
translation by Mojde-i Bayat: "Marahil-i `ishq dar nakhustin advar-i
tasavvuf-i Iran
§ Revised
Persian translation: "Marahil-i `ishq dar tasavvuf-i aghazin-i Irani: az
Rabi`a ta Ruzbihan," Miras-i Tasavvuf, trans. Majdoddin Keyvani
(Tehran: Nashr-i Markaz, 1384/2006), 1:315-37.
§
Spanish translation: “Las etapas del amor en el sufismo persa
primitivo de Rābea a Ruzbahan,” Revista Sufi, Número VIII (Otoño /
Invierno 2004).
"The
Spirit of Islamic Calligraphy: Baba Shah Isfahani's Adab al-Mashq." Journal
of the American Oriental Society 112 (1992), pp. 279-86.
"From
Philosophy of Religion to History of Religion." In Problems in the Philosophy of Religion: Critical Studies of the Work of
John Hick, ed. Harold Hewitt, Jr (London: Macmillan, 1991), pp. 46-50.
"The
Symbolism of Birds and Flight in the Writings of Ruzbihan Baqli." In The Legacy of Mediaeval Persian Sufism,
ed. Leonard Lewisohn (London: Khaniqahi Nimatullahi, 1992), pp. 353-66; also in
Sufi 11 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 5-12;
reprinted in The Heritage of Sufism, vol.
2, The Legacy of Mediaeval Persian Sufism
(1150-1500), ed. Leonard Lewisohn (Oxford: One World, 1999), pp. 353-66.
§ Persian
translation: “Namad-ha-yi parandah o parvaz dar musannafat-i Ruzbihan Baqli,” Miras-i
Tasavvuf, trans. Majdoddin Keyvani (Tehran: Nashr-i Markaz, 1384/2006),
2:231-52.
"The
Textual Formation of Oral Teachings in Early Chishti Sufism." In Texts and Contexts: Traditional Hermeneutics
in South Asia , ed. Jeffrey Timm (Albany:
State University of New York Press, 1991), pp. 271-97.
"Ibn
al-`Arabi on the Divine Beauty: Some Comparative Considerations." In Truth and Beauty: Proceedings of the Second
Annual U.S.A.
Response
to "The Earth and Humanity: A Muslim View" by Jamal Badawi. In Three Faiths--One God: A Jewish, Christian,
Muslim Encounter, ed. John Hick and Edmund S. Meltzer (New York: Macmillan,
1989), pp. 99-106.
"Inner
Perspectives" (a series of ten weekly newspaper columns on Sufism). The Nation (Lahore, Oct.-Dec. 1986).
"Controversy
over Ibn `Arabi's Fusus: The Faith of
Pharaoh." Islamic Culture LIX
(1985), pp. 259-66.
"From
Hagiography to Martyrology: Conflicting Testimonies to a Sufi Martyr of the Delhi
"Mystical
and Esoteric Aspects of Religious Knowledge in Sufism." The Journal of Religious Studies XIII
(1984), pp. 93-100; also in Islam and the
Modern Age XV (1984), pp. 201-8.
Articles
for reference works
Encyclopedia Iranica (Costa Mesa CA
Encyclopedia of Hinduism, ed.
K. L. Seshagiri Rao (India Heritage Research Foundation, forthcoming):
"Indian Texts, Persian and Arabic Translations of," "Hinduism,
Islamicate Studies of."
Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition
(Leiden: E. J. Brill): "Ruzbihan Bakli" (VII:651-52, 1995); "Shath"
(IX:361-2, 1997); "Shirazi, Rafi` al-Din" (IX:483, 1997);
"Tasawwuf (iii): 19th and 20th-century Sufism, in Muslim India"
(X:333-7, 1999).
Encyclopedia
of Islam and the Muslim World, ed. Richard Martin (New York : Macmillan Reference USA
Encyclopaedia of Islam Three (Leiden:
E. J. Brill): “Bibi Jamal Khatun” (I:165, 2010).
Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, ed.
Robert Wuthnow (Congressional Quarterly, Inc., 1998): "Iqbal,
Muhammad," pp. 375-6; "Sufism," pp. 719-21.
Encyclopedia of Religion, ed. Mircea
Eliade et al. (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987): "Blasphemy
(Islamic Concept)," vol. 2, pp. 242-45.
The HarperCollins Dictionary of Religion, ed.
Jonathan Z. Smith (San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1995): "Brethren
of Purity," "Rightly Guided Caliphs," "Sufi,"
"Sunna," pp. 128, 928-9, 1029, 1035.
The Muslim Almanac: A Reference Work on
the History, Faith, Cultures, and Peoples of Islam, ed.
Azim A. Nanji (Gale Research, Inc., 1996): "Spiritual Life and
Institutions in Muslim Society," pp. 253-59.
South Asian Folklore: An Encyclopedia, ed.
Peter J. Claus and Margaret A. Mills (Garland Publishing, Inc., 2003):
"Syncretism" (with Tony K. Stewart).
Prefaces
Foreword
to Annemarie Schimmel, Mystical Dimensions of Islam (2nd ed.,
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011).
Foreword
to Anna Suvorova, Lahore: Topophilia of Space and Place (Karachi: Oxford
University Press, 2011).
Preface
to Sajida Sultana Alvi, Perspectives on Mughal India: Rulers, Historians,
‘Ulama’ and Ṣūfīs
(Karachi: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Preface
to Michel Boivin, Artifacts of Devotion: An Introduction to the Sufi
Repertoire of Sehwan Sharif (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2010).
Preface
to Abu `Abd ar-Rahman as-Sulami, Early
Sufi Women, trans. Rkia Laroui Cornell (Fons Vitae, 2000).
Foreword
to Meher Baba, Universal Prayer,
illustrated by Will David (Myrtle Beach, SC: Sheriar Press, 1999).
Foreword
to Shaykh `Ali al-Hujwiri, Revealing the
Mystery (Kashf al-mahjub), trans. R. A. Nicholson, (reprint ed., N.Y.: Pir
Press, 1999).
Preface
to Michael Sells, Early Islamic Mysticism,
Classics of Western Spirituality (Paulist Press, 1996).
Preface
to Judith L. Ernst, The Golden Goose
King: A Tale Told by the Buddha (Chapel Hill, NC: Parvardigar Press, 1995).
Poetry
Translation
Persian
and Urdu verses (20 pp.) quoted in Muhammad Zawqi Shah, Sirr-i dilbaran
(Karachi: Mahfil-i Zawqiyya, forthcoming) (English translation of an Urdu
dictionary of Sufi terminology).
Five
Persian poems by Amir Khusraw, plus script outline, for "Amir and the
Student," a music and dance drama produced by the Pakistan Arts Council, Pacific Asia Museum
Persian
Lyrics, translated from Hafiz Shirazi and Amir Khusraw, in "Lions on a
Banner: Seven Sufi Texts for Soprano Solo, Chorus of Mixed Voices, and
Orchestra," an NEA-supported composition by Karl Kohn, 1988.
Music
Notes
Introduction
to J. Mark Scearce, The 99 Beautiful Names of God (composition for solo piano, performed by
John Cheek; Albany Records, 2009).
"From
Middle Eastern Poetry to Country Western Music." Liner notes to The Songs of Hafiz, CD music album by
James R. Newell, 2001.
Over
forty book reviews and book notes.
INTERNATIONAL
INVITED LECTURES (2001-2012)
Bahrain: Bait al-Qur'an Center, Manama, 2007,
2008
Brunei: Universiti Brunei Darussalam, 2011
Canada: Noor Foundation, Toronto, 2004; York
University, Toronto, 2004
Egypt: Bashrahil
Prize, Cairo, 2004
France: École des
Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 2003; Université Jean Moulin-Lyon
III, 2003; American University of Paris, 2005
Germany: Goethe University, Frankfurt, 2004;
Social Science Research Center, Berlin, 2006
India: Jaipur
Literature Festival, 2012
Indonesia:
Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta, 2005
Iran: University of Shiraz, 2007, 2008; Iranian
Research Institute in Philosophy, Tehran, 2008; Ministry of Science, Research,
and Technology, 2008
Italy: Edoardo Agnelli Centre for Comparative
Religious Studies, Turin, 2002
Kuwait: Museum of Islamic Art, 2008
Malaysia: Centre for
Civilisational Dialogue, University of Malaya, 2005 (multiple presentations),
2007, 2010
Mexico: Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México, 2008; Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City, 2008
Netherlands: Spanda Foundation, The Hague, 2006;
Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies, Amsterdam, 2011
Oman: Ministry of Religious Affairs and
Endowments, Muscat, 2007
Pakistan: National College of Arts, Lahore,
2006
Portugal: Ismaili Centre, Lisbon, 2006
Spain: University of Seville, 2001
Syria: Turkish Women’s Cultural Association, Damascus,
2009
Turkey: Near Eastern University, Lefkosa,
Northern Cyprus, 2004, 2007; Turkish Women’s Cultural Association, Istanbul,
2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011; Istanbul University, 2007, 2009; Fatih University,
Istanbul, 2009; Center for Islamic Studies, Istanbul, 2009
United Kingdom: School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London, 2002, 2005; Royal Asiatic Society, London, 2003;
University of Exeter, 2007; Iran Heritage Foundation, London, 2007
Uzbekistan:
Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies, 2003
RESEARCH
IN PROGRESS
The Arabic Poetry of Hallaj: New
Translations
The Pool of Nectar: Muslim Interpreters of
Yoga.
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS
American
Society for the Study of Religion (elected 1996)
Association
for the Study of Persianate Societies
Institute
for Central and West Asian Studies, University of Karachi
Society
for Iranian Studies
OTHER PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
Museum
related
Sackler
and Freer Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, Consultant for
Exhibit on "The Arts of Yoga" (2009)
Scholar in Residence, Doris Duke Foundation for
Islamic Art, Honolulu, Hawaii, June-July 2008
Pacific
Asia Museum, Pasadena CA, Pakistan Arts Council (1990-1992)
Editorial
Advisory Boards
Comparative
Islamic Studies (Equinox Publishing)
Fons
Vitae Publishers
Hamdard
Islamicus, Hamdard Foundation Pakistan
Islam
and Civilisational Renewal, International
Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies - Malaysia
Islamic
Civilization and Muslim Networks Series, University of North Carolina Press,
Co-Editor (with Bruce B. Lawrence)
Islamic
Studies, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Journal of Islam and Contemporary Society,
Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society,
London
Journal of Sufi Studies (E.
J. Brill)
Katha,
Centre for Civilisational Dialogue, University of Malaya
Nefes
Press, Turkish Women’s Cultural Association (Istanbul
Mawlana
Rumi Review (Cyprus/Exeter)
Peer
Review
Grant
Proposal Reviewer, Council of American Overseas Research Centers, National
Endowment for the Humanities: Reference Works, Translations (Arabic and
Persian); National
Humanities Center
Manuscript
Reviewer, American Anthropologist, American
Ethnologist, Journal of Arabic Literature, Journal of Islamic Studies, The
Journal of Religion, Numen, Blackwell’s, Brill, Indiana University Press, Oneworld,
Oxford University Press, Paulist Press, Polity, Princeton University Press, State
University of New York Press, University of California Press, University of
Missouri Press, University of North Carolina Press, University of South
Carolina Press.
Promotion
and tenure reviews in Anthropology, Art History, History, Near Eastern Studies,
Religious Studies, and Sociology: Amherst College, Auburn University, Brown University, Colgate University, Colorado
College, Davidson College, Duke University, Emory University, Harvard
University, Haverford College, Indiana University, Lafayette College, Louisiana State University, Loyola University, Macalester
College,
Middlebury College, North
Carolina State University,
Northern Arizona University, Oregon State University, Pomona College, Princeton
University, Reed College, Rochester University, Rutgers University, Santa Clara
University, Simon
Fraser University, State
University of New York at Binghamton, SUNY-Stonybrook, UNC-Charlotte, University of Arizona, University
of California at Berkeley, University of California at Los Angeles, University
of Karachi,
University of London, University
of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Washington, Washington
University at St. Louis, Wesleyan University.
Program
reviews:
Middle
East Studies Program, Elon University (2008, 2010)
Department
of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Emory University
Department
of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Louisiana
State University
National
and international organizations
American Academy of Religion, Islamic
Mysticism Group, Co-Chair, 2003-2009
American Institute of Iranian Studies,
Trustee-at-large, 1999-2001; Trustee, 2001-; Chair, Program Committee, 2000-3;
Nominations Committee, 2003-4
American Institute of Pakistan
Studies, Trustee; member, Executive Committee, 1994-2002; Conference Subcommittee,
1995-1998; Publications and Nominations Subcommittees, 1998-2000
American Society for the Study of
Religion (elected 1996), Executive Committee, 2010-13
Forum
on Global Islam, Discussant, 1992-93
Foundation
for Traditional Studies, Advisory Board, 1989-
Institute
for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, Agha Khan University, London, Resource
Group, 2002-5
Jubilo
Project, Spanda Foundation, The Hague, Advisory Board, 2005-7
Middle
East Studies Association, Chair, Albert Hourani Book Award Committee, 2010;
elected to Board of Directors, 2010-13
Parsa
Community Foundation, Grant Advisory Committee, 2010
Persian Poetry Circle of North America, Advisory
Board, 2004-
Perso-Indica: A Descriptive Catalogue
of Persian Texts on Indian Traditions and Sciences, sponsored by IFRI (Institut
Français de recherche en Iran), Co-Director, with Dr. Fabrizio Speziale et al.,
2009-14
Toda
Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, International Advisory Council,
2000-5
Local
and regional educational organizations
American
Association of University Professors, UNC-Chapel Chapter, President, 2006-9
Carolina
Seminar on Comparative Islamic Studies, Co-Director with Charles
Kurzman , 1994-
North
Carolina Center for South Asia Studies, UNC Campus Representative and Project
Director, 2000-1, 2006-7; Executive Committee, 2009
South
Eastern Regional Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Seminar, Board member,
1996-98
Triangle
South Asia Consortium, Executive Committee, 1992-2001
World
View International Program for Educators, Advisory Board, 2003-9
COURSES
TAUGHT
At UNC
(online syllabi since 1997 available at http://www.unc.edu/~cernst/class.htm)
Current
courses:
Reli. 82,
"Re-Introducing Islam" (First-Year Seminar)
Reli. 180,
“Introduction to Islamic Civilization to 1500"
Reli. 181,
“Later Islamic Civilization”
Reli. 481, "Religion, Fundamentalism, and
Nationalism"
Reli. 581, "Sufism"
Reli. 582,
"Islam in South Asia"
Reli. 583, “Religion and Culture in Iran,
1500-Present”
Reli. 584, “The Qur’an as Literature”
Reli. 681,
“Readings in Islamicate Texts: Arabic, Persian or Urdu”
Reli. 780,
"Methodology and Pedagogy in Islamic Studies"
Reli.
785, “Genealogies of Middle East Studies”
Reli.
890, “Islamic Thought”
Other
courses taught previously at UNC:
Reli.
10, "World Religions"
Reli.
40, "Mysticism"
Reli.
60, "Islamic Religion in Thought and Practice"
Reli.
99, "Comparing Islams"
Reli.
199/299, "Globalization and Local Islam in Asia "
(with James Peacock, Anthropology, UNC)
At
Pomona College
Religion
2, "Issues in Religious Thought”
Religion
4, "Survey of World Religions”
Religion
5, "Philosophy in World Religions”
Religion
100, "Theories of Religion”
Religion
104, "Medieval India
Religion
105, "The Mediterranean and the Middle East "
(with Katherine Tachau, Department of History)
Religion
115, "Sufism”
Interdepartmental
1, "Critical Inquiry: Religion and
Politics in the Modern World" (freshman seminar).
Interdepartmental
130, "Traditions of Ecstasy:
Mystical and Erotic Poetry" (with Richard Barnes, Department of English).
Interdepartmental
131, "Classical Islam”
Interdepartmental
132, "Modern Islam”
GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL ADVISING
Dissertations and theses directed (* =
director of record)
Ilyse Morgenstein-Fuerst, “Planting the Garden
of Religions: Taxonomies, Identities, and Religions in Mughal South Asia.” Ph.D.,
UNC, anticipated 2012.
G. A. Lipton, “A Universal Mystique: Ibn ‘Arabi
and the Post-Enlightenment Idea of Sufism.” PhD, UNC, anticipated 2012.
Brannon Ingram, “Deobandis
Abroad: Sufism, Ethics and Polemics in a Global Islamic Movement.” Ph.D., UNC,
2011.
Timur Yuskaev, “My
Qur’an: American Muslim Pedagogies of Collective Memory.” Ph.D., UNC, 2010.
*Richard
Musselwhite , "Possessing Knowledge: Emergence of
Institutional Boundaries among the Brahma Kumaris." Ph.D., UNC, 2009.
Peter M. Wright,
"Modern Qur’anic Hermeneutics."
Ph.D., UNC, 2008.
Karen G. Ruffle,
“Memory Inflamed: Women’s Participation in the Shi`i Community of Remembrance.”
Ph.D., UNC, 2007.
G. A. Lipton, “Defending
Ibn al-`Arabi: Muhibb Allah Ilahabadi’s Taswiya and the Politics of Wahdat
al-Wujud in 17th-Century India
Peter M. Wright,
"A Box of Self-Threading Needles: Epic Vision and Penal Trauma in the
Fugitive Origins of the Nation of Islam." M.A., UNC, 2004.
*Steven Ramey,
"Defying Borders: Contemporary
Sindhi Hindu Constructions of Practices and Identifications." Ph.D., UNC,
2004.
Karen G. Ruffle,
“Verses Dripping Blood: A Study of the Religious Elements of Muhtasham
Kashani's Karbala-nameh.” M.A., UNC, 2001.
*C. Neal Keye, “The
Resistance to Reading
Dissertation and thesis committees
Kathleen Foody, “Thinking Islam: Epistemological
Difference and Iranian Re-formations of Modernity.” Ph.D., Religious Studies, UNC,
anticipated 2012.
Rachana Rao Umashankar, “Contesting Sufism,
Defining Islam: The encounter between shrine-based Sufism and the Tablighi Jama`at.” Ph.D., Anthropology, UNC, anticipated
2011.
Rkia Elaroui Cornell,
“Rabi`a, from Narrative to Myth: Tropics of Identity of a Muslim Woman Saint.”
Free University of Amsterdam, anticipated 2011.
Youshaa Patel,
“Imitation and Religious Identity in Islam.” Ph.D., Religion, Duke University, anticipated
2011.
Anna Neubauer, "La religiosité féminine au sein d'un
mouvement soufi d'Istanbul.” Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 2009.
Kathleen Foody, “Contesting the Jurists’
Authority: Muslim Critique and Counter-Traditions in the Islamic Republic of
Iran.” M.A., Religious Studies, UNC, 2009.
Kevin Blankinship, "Death at First Sight:
the Duality of Love in Thibaut de Champagne and Ibn Quzman.” M.A., Comparative
Literature, UNC, 2009.
Hager El-Hadidi,
“Survivals and Surviving: Belonging to Zar in Cairo.” Ph.D., Anthropology,
UNC, 2006.
Zia Inayat-Khan, “A
Hybrid Sufi Order at the Crossroads of Modernity: The Sufi Order and Sufi
Movement of Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan.” Ph.D., Religion, Duke University
Robert Thomas Rozehnal,
“Islamic Sufism Unbound: Tracing Contemporary Chishti Sabiri Identity.” Ph.D., Religion,
Duke University
Frederick Stephen
Colby, “Constructing an Islamic Ascension Narrative: The Interplay of Official
and Popular Culture in Pseudo-Ibn 'Abbas.” Ph.D., Religion, Duke University
Hugh Talat Halman, “’Where Two
Seas Duke
University
Scott Alan Kugle, “In
Search of the Center: Authenticity, Reform and Critique in Early Modern Islamic
Sainthood.” Ph.D., Religion, Duke
University
Philip A. Hassett,
“Improvised Compositions: Religion and Indian Classical Music in the United States
Kenton L. Sparks,
“Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Israel
Randall K. Haight, “Ibn
‘Arabi and Religious Diversity: Historical and Theological Perspectives on the
Legendary Master.” M.A., Graduate Theological Union ,
1995.
External
examiner of PhD dissertations
Malik Mohammad Tariq,
"A Comparative Study of Allama Iqbal and Dr. Fazlur Rahman on Islamic
Modernity." PhD, Philosophy, University of Peshawar, Pakistan, 2011.
Sakina Khan, “Central
Asia Sufi Influence in NWFP: the Naqshbandiyya and the Chishtiyya.” Ph.D.,
History, University of Peshawar, Pakistan, 2010.
Anita Mir, “The Object
of Love: A Literary and Theological Analysis of the Work of Two Mystical Poets:
The Flemish Catholic Beguine, Hadewijch (fl. 1240) and Punjabi Sufi, Bulleh
Shah (d. 1758).” Ph.D., Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter (UK),
2005.
Abdul Rahim, “The
Farahi-Islahi Objectivist Approach to Qur'anic Hermeneutics: Subjective -
Objective Distinction of Hermeneutical Approaches to the Qur'an in Connection
with Western Hermeneutics." Ph.D.,
Philosophy, University
of Karachi
Tanvir Anjum, “Chishtia
Silsilah and the Delhi
Mentoring
Visiting Scholars
Ahmad Hidayat Buang,
Academy of Islamic Studies, University of Malaya, 2011
Muhammet Mustafa Çakmaklıoğlu,
School of Divinity, University of Erciyes, Kayseri, Turkey, 2011
Recep Alpyagil, Faculty
of Divinity, Istanbul University, Spring 2009
Tanvir Anjum,
Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan; Higher Education Commission Fellow, 2007-8
Amal Mostafa, Cairo University , Egypt
Meenakshi Khanna, Indraprastha College
for Women, University of Delhi ,
India
Zumrad Ahmedjanova,
Samarqand State Institute of Foreign Languages, Uzbekistan
Josie Hendrickson, Emory University
Supriya Gandhi, Emory University
Nozim Muminov,
Samarqand State Institute of Foreign Languages, Uzbekistan
F. Cangüzel Zülfikar,
Bilkent University , Turkey
Arthur Buehler, Colgate University
ACADEMIC SERVICE
University
service at UNC
Faculty
Executive Committee, 2007-2010
Administrative
Board of the Library, 2005-2008
Carolina
Asia Center: Advisory Committee, 2006-9
Carolina
Center for Jewish Studies: Faculty Steering Committee, 2004-9
Center
for Global Initiatives, Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship Selection
Committee, 2009
Committee
to Assess Organization of International Studies on Campus, 1996
Curriculum
in International and Area Studies: Advisory Board, 2004-9
Department
of Art History: Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2011
Department
of Asian Studies: Chair, Search Committee (Arabic), 1999-2000; Chair, Search
Committee (Hindi-Urdu), 1997-98; Advisory Committee, 1996-2011; Salary
Committee, 2000-3; Promotion and Tenure Committees, 2003-9
Digital
Library Project: Steering Committee, 1999-2000
Faculty
Adviser, Persian Cultural Society, 1996-2000, 2004-7; Arab Club, 2002-5
History
Department: Search Committee (South Asian History), 1999
Luce
Fellowships Nominating Committee, 2008
Program
in the Humanities and Human Values: Advisory Board, 1996-2002
Society
of Fellows Graduate Fellowship Committee, 2003-8
Scholarships,
Awards, & Student Aid Committee, 2003-8
Steering
Committee for UNC Taskforce on Future Promotion and Tenure Policies and
Practices, 2008-9
Summer
Reading Program Committee: Consultant, 2002 (selection of Michael Sells’ Approaching
the Qur’an)
UNC Department of Religious
Studies service
Department
Chair, 1995-2000
Development
Officer, 2000-1, 2011-12
Director
of Undergraduate Studies, 2002-2004; Undergraduate Studies Committee, 1992-3,
2005-7
Graduate
Studies Committee, 1994-5, 2004, 2007-8; Director of Graduate Studies, 2009,
2011
Lectures
Committee Chair, 2006-7
Salary
Committee, 2001-4, 2010-13
Search
Committee Chair: 1992-3 (Religion in America );
1994-5 (Medieval Christian spirituality); 2001-2 (Early Judaism); 2003-4
(Ethnography of Religion in Asia); 2006-7, 2007-8 (Religion in Latin America )
Search
Committee Member: 2001-2 (Modern Islam); 2005-6 (Islamic studies)
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of Religion: Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2005; Search Committee, Islamic
Studies, 2007-8.
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Mediation Committee, 1991
Chair, Department of Religion,
January 1991- June 1992
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Enrichment Seminar Program, 1988-91
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Executive Committee, 1987-90
Computer
Committee, 1984-85
Curriculum
Committee, 1983-85, 1991-2
Independent
Study Committee, 1983-85
International
Relations Committee, 1984-89
International
Education Committee, 1982-83
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Fraternity Review Committee, 1983-84
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Resident, Clark I Dormitory, 1982-85
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