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Book SynopsisCarl W. Ernst devoted his academic life to translating Islam, linguistically and culturally, typically within the intellectual context of religious studies. His work has focussed on how Islamic concepts have travelled across time and space and his influence on Islamic studies and religious studies is far-reaching. This volume features contributions from long-standing colleagues, scholars whose own work has built on Ernst’s contributions, and former students. It looks at themes in Islamic studies which Ernst has addressed and expands on his major contributions. Essays in this volume touch nearly every major element in Islamic studies – from the Qur’an to Sufism, Islamophobia to South Asian Islam, historical and contemporary praxis, music and more. This collection demonstrates one core tenant of Ernst’s work, specifically the argument that Islam is not rooted in one place, time or language, but is a vast network, routed though myriad places, times and languages.
Table of ContentsPreface Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst and Brannon Wheeler Introduction: A Shaykh for All Occasions Bruce B. Lawrence, Duke University 1. Is Islam a ‘Religion’? Contesting Din-Religion Equivalence in Twentieth Century Islamist Discourse Brannon Ingram, Northwestern University 2. Muslim Writings on Hinduism in Colonial India Ali Mian, University of Florida 3. Sons of the Green Light: Khidr and Sufism in the Ansaru Allah Community/Nubian Islamic Hebrews (AAC/NIH) Michael Muhammad Knight, University of Central Florida 4. Religion/Islam/Hinduism/Sufism/Yoga Joy and James W. Laine, both at Macalester College 5. Ascension Visions of Sufi Masters: The Rhetoric of Authority in Visionary Experiences of Ibn Abī Jamra (d.ca. 699/1300) and Rūzbihān Baqlī (d. 606/1209) Frederick S. Colby, University of Oregon 6. It’s in the Bones”: Muslim Pathologies and the Problem of Representation in Disgraced Samah Choudhry, University of North Carolina 7. Sufism’s Ambivalent Publics Katherine Pratt Ewing, Columbia University 8. Sufi Cyberscapes: The Inayati Order in the Virtual Ecosystem of American Islam Robert Rozehnal, Lehigh University 9. Carl Ernst’s Methodology of Sufi Studies F. Cangüzel Zülfikar, Uskudar University 10. Translation, Travel, Transfiguration and the Practice of Scholarship in the Study of Religion Brannon Wheeler 11. Negotiating the State and the Persianate: Ernst’s Living Legacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Candace Mixon, University of North Carolina (PhD Candidate) 12. Writing, Doing, and Performing the Future of Islamic Studies: The Practical Example of Carl W. Ernst Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst 13. Epistemic Authority and a Just World: Remaking Islamic Studies through Collaborative Practices Katie Merriman, University of North Carolina (PhD Candidate) Afterword Carl W. Ernst, University of North Carolina
