Carl W. Ernst 1906 Clearwater Lake Rd., Chapel Hill, NC 27517 919-929-4594 (home); 919-962-1425 (office); 919-929-8289 (fax) cernst@email.unc.edu; http://www.unc.edu/~cernst PROFESSIONAL HISTORY Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor (2005- ) Co-Director, Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations (2003-) Zachary Smith Distinguished Term Professor (2000-2005) Professor (1992-2000); Chair (1995-2000) Department of Religion, Pomona College, Claremont, California Chair (1991-1992); Associate Professor (1987-92), Assistant Professor (1981-87) Visiting positions University of Malaya, Centre for Civilisational Dialogue (Jan.-May 2005; Sept.-Oct., 2010) École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (May, 2003; May-June 1991) University of Seville, Area of Arabic Studies (September-December, 2001) EDUCATION Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ph.D., June, 1981: The Study of Religion Stanford University, Stanford, California: A.B. Hons., April, 1973: Humanities / Religious Studies. HONORS AND GRANTS John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Research Fellowship, 2010. UNC Medieval and Early Modern Studies Research Fellowship, spring 2010. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, elected Fellow 2009. Farabi International Award in Humanities and Islamic Studies (Tehran, 2008), for Ruzbihan Baqli: Mysticism and the Rhetoric of Sainthood in Persian Sufism. Scholar in Residence, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, Honolulu, Hawaii, June-July 2008. Awards for Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World (UNC Press, 2003) Iranian Research Institute in Philosophy (Tehran) and Shiraz University (Shiraz, 2007) Cenan Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching of Sufism (Istanbul, 2005) Turkish Economics and Social Research Foundation Award (Istanbul, 2005) Turkish Women’s Cultural Association, Award for Excellence in Education (Istanbul, 2005) Bashrahil Prize for Outstanding Cultural Achievement (Cairo, 2004) Fulbright Fellowships (Malaysia, spring 2005; Spain, fall 2001; Pakistan, 1986; India, 1978-9) International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX), Travel Grant, Uzbekistan, March 2003 W. H. Reynolds Research Leave, University of North Carolina, fall 2001 Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina, Fellow, spring 2001 UNC Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, Summer Research Grant, summer 2000 American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Research Grant, summer 2000. American Society for the Study of Religion, elected 1996. National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Research Grant, 1993. American Research Institute in Turkey, Travel Grant, Summer 1990. NEH Translation Grant (Arabic), for “The Pool of the Water of Life: An Islamic Interpretation of Yoga,” 1989-90. American Institute of Indian Studies, Senior Research Fellowship, June-December 1981. Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowships, 1976-78, 1979-80 (Persian). Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Merit Award, 1979. PUBLICATIONS Books How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide with Select Translations. University of North Carolina Press, 2011. Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World. University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Translations: Turkish, Korean, French, Persian, Arabic, and German. Sufi Martyrs of Love: Chishti Sufism in South Asia and Beyond (co-author Bruce Lawrence). Palgrave Press, 2002. Teachings of Sufism. Shambhala, 1999, an anthology of translations from Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. Guide to Sufism. Shambhala, 1997. Translations: Russian, Persian, Greek, Italian, Spanish. Ruzbihan Baqli. The Unveiling of Secrets: Diary of a Sufi Master. Translated from the Arabic by Carl W. Ernst. Parvardigar Press, 1997. Ruzbihan Baqli: Mysticism and the Rhetoric of Sainthood in Persian Sufism. Curzon Press, 1996. Translated into Persian twice. Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South Asian Sufi Center. State University of New York Press, 1992. 2nd edition, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004. Words of Ecstasy in Sufism. SUNY Series in Islam. State University of New York Press, 1985. Edited volumes Editor, Islamophobia in America: The Anatomy of Intolerance. Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013 (in press). Co-Editor (with Richard C. Martin), Rethinking Islamic Studies: From Post-Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism. 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). Associate editor (with Grace Martin Smith), Manifestations of Sainthood in Islam. The Isis Press, 1993; also principal author of “Introduction” (pp. xi-xxviii), and author of article “An Indo-Persian Guide to Sufi Shrine Pilgrimage” (pp. 43-67). Selected articles in journals and collective volumes Translations from the writings of Jalal al-Din Dawani: Commentary on Suhrawardi's "Temples of Light" (Sharḥ hayākil al-nūr, Book 5; Arabic), and Flashes of Illumination on Praiseworthy Ethics, or the Jalalian Ethics (Akhlāq-i Jalālī, Book 4; Persian), in An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, ed. S. H. Nasr and Mehdi Aminrazavi, vol. 4, From the School of Illumination to Philosophical Mysticism (London: I.B. Tauris, 2012), pp. 93-120, 121-135. "It's Not Just Academic – Writing Public Scholarship in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies." Review of Middle East Studies 45/2 (Winter 2011 [published 2012]), pp. 164-71. “A Fourteenth-Century Persian Account of Breath Control and Meditation.” In Yoga in Practice, ed. David Gordon White, Princeton Readings in Religions (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011), pp. 133-39. “The Limits of Universalism in Islamic Thought: The Case of Indian Religions.” Muslim World 101 (January 2011), pp. 1-19. “‘The West and Islam?’ Rethinking Orientalism and Occidentalism.” Ishraq: Islamic Philosophy Yearbook 1 (Moscow/Tehran, 2010), pp. 23-34. “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. “Muhammad as the Pole of Existence.” In The Cambridge Companion to Muhammad, ed. Jonathan Brockopp (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 123-38. “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. “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. “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. “Reconfiguring South Asian Islam: The 18th and 19th centuries.” Journal of Comparative Islamic Studies 5/2 (2009), pp. 247-272. “Accounts of Yogis in Arabic and Persian Historical and Travel Texts.” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, vol. 33 (2008), pp. 409-426. “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. Manohar, 2009. “Reading Strategies for Introducing the Qur'an as Literature in an American Public University.” Islamic Studies (Islamabad) 45:3 (2006), pp. 333-344; reprinted as Occasional Paper No. 77, Islamic Research Institute (Islamabad, 2007). “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 (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’ in Arabic, Turkish, Persian, and Urdu.” Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, vol. 32 (2006), pp. 144-188. “Situating Sufism and Yoga.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Series 3, 15:1 (2005), pp. 15-43. “Ideological and Technological Transformations of Contemporary Sufism.” In Muslim Networks: Medium, Metaphor, and Method, ed. miriam cooke and Bruce B. Lawrence. University of North Carolina Press, 2005), pp. 198-207. “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), 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 Press, 2002), pp. 108-23. “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: Sadra Islamic Philosophy Research Institute, 2001), 1:173-192. “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, 2000), pp. 198-220. “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. “Sufism and Yoga according to Muhammad Ghawth.” Sufi 29 (Spring 1996), pp. 9-13. 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 as a Sacred Islamic Land” (Arabic; pp. 556-64). “The Interpretation of the Classical Sufi Tradition in India: The Shama'il al-atqiya' of Rukn al-Din Kashani.” Sufi 22 (1994), pp. 5-10. “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. “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 The Heritage of Sufism, Volume 1, Classical Persian Sufism from its Origins to Rumi (700-1300), ed. Leonard Lewisohn (One World, 1999), pp. 435-55. “The Spirit of Islamic Calligraphy: Baba Shah Isfahani's Adab al-Mashq.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 112 (1992), pp. 279-86. “The Symbolism of Birds and Flight in the Writings of Ruzbihan Baqli.” In The Heritage of Sufism, Volume 2, ed. Leonard Lewisohn (Oxford: One World, 1999), pp. 353-66. “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 Sultanate.” History of Religions XXIV (May, 1985), pp. 308-27. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Academy of Religion Association for the Study of Persianate Societies Institute for Central and West Asian Studies, University of Karachi (life member, 1986) Middle East Medievalists Middle East Studies Association Society for Iranian Studies 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; Perso-Indica consortium, 2012 Germany: Goethe University, Frankfurt, 2004; Social Science Research Center, Berlin, 2006 India: Jaipur Literature Festival, 2012; Osmania University, 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, 2012; 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; University of Wales, 2012 Uzbekistan: Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies, 2003 arl W. 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