Carl Ernst
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Religious Studies, Faculty Member
- Carl W. Ernst is a specialist in Islamic studies, with a focus on West and South Asia. His published research, based ... moreCarl W. Ernst is a specialist in Islamic studies, with a focus on West and South Asia. His published research, based on the study of Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, has been mainly devoted to the study of three areas: general and critical issues of Islamic studies, premodern and contemporary Sufism, and Indo-Muslim culture. He has received research fellowships from the Fulbright program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and he has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His current research projects include an edited volume on Islamophobia in America (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013), studies of Muslim interpreters of Indian religions, and a translation of the Arabic poetry of al-Hallaj. His most recent book is How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide, with Select Translations (UNC Press, 2011). His other publications, which have received several international awards, include Rethinking Islamic Studies: From Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism (co-edited with Richard Martin, 2010), Sufi Martyrs of Love: Chishti Sufism in South Asia and Beyond (co-authored with Bruce Lawrence, 2002); Teachings of Sufism (1999); a translation of The Unveiling of Secrets: Diary of a Sufi Master by Ruzbihan Baqli (1997); Guide to Sufism (1997); Ruzbihan Baqli: Mystical Experience and the Rhetoric of Sainthood in Persian Sufism (1996); Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South Asian Sufi Center (1993); and Words of Ecstasy in Sufism (1985).
He studied comparative religion at Stanford University (A.B. 1973) and Harvard University (Ph.D. 1981). He has done extended research tours in India (1978-79, 1981), Pakistan (1986, 2000, 2005), and Turkey (1991), and is a regular visitor to the Gulf, Turkey, Iran, and Southeast Asia for lectures and conferences. He has taught at Pomona College (1981-1992) and has been appointed as visiting lecturer in Paris (EHESS, 1991, 2003), the University of Seville (2001), and the University of Malaya (2005, 2010). On the faculty of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill since 1992, he has been department chair (1995-2000) and Zachary Smith Professor (2000-2005) as well as member of the Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association. He is now William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor (2005- ) and Co-Director of the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations. He and Bruce Lawrence are co-editors of the Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks Series at the University of North Carolina Press.edit
Autobiographical work in Persian by Shaykh Muhammad Ghawth Gwaliyari, entitled Awrad-i ghawthiyya or Mi`raj namah. MS 446 Curzon, Asiatic Society, Calcutta
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Manuscript copy of Hidayat al-qulub, Persian discourses (malfuzat) of Shaykh Zayn al-Din Shirazi (14th cent.), collected by Mir Hasan, 1344-1367. Notes by Carl Ernst
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Malfuzat of Burhan al-Din Gharib, compiled by Hammad al-Din Kashani; photocopy of Persian manuscript from Khuldabad
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Malfuzat of Burhan al-Din Gharib, recorded by Rukn al-Din Dabir Kashani.
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Persian manuscript from Khuldabad, on the Chishti master Shaykh Burhan al-Din Gharib
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Turkish Translation of the Article " Sufism and Yoga According to Muhammed Ghawth" Author : Carl W. Ernst