Sufis and Globalization

A lecture by Professor Ernst 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 devoted to the study of three areas: general and critical issues in Islamic studies, premodern and contemporary Sufism, and Indo-Muslim culture. His most recent projects in Islamic studies have addressed issues of public scholarship relating to Islamophobia, the problem of reading the Qur’an, a critical rethinking of Islamic studies, and problems in understanding Islam. His studies of Sufism have engaged with the literary, historical, and contemporary aspects of Islamic mysticism, particularly in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent and the Persianate cultural sphere. He has also been pursuing a long-term study of Muslim interpretations of Indian religions, particularly with regard to the practice of yoga. His current work includes the literary translation of the Arabic poetry of the early Sufi and martyr, al-Hallaj (executed in Baghdad in 922). This entails a re-examination of what is meant by Sufi poetry as well as the question of authorship in the case of an individual most of whose works were burned over 1000 years ago.

Monday, February 8, 2016 at 5:00pm

Shumaker Research Building, Room 139
2210 S. Brook Street , Louisville, Kentucky 40208

Event Type

Talk, Academic

Audience

Students, Faculty/staff, Alumni, Public

Departments

Arts & Sciences, Anthropology, College of Arts & Sciences, Middle East & Islamic Studies

Website

http://louisville.edu/meis/news/sufis...

Cost

Free

Contact Name

Julie Peteet

Contact Phone Number

852-6864

Contact Email

stacey.schoen@louisville.edu

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