Words of Experience

Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Vermont. Brannon Wheeler is Professor of History at the United States Naval Academy.

• PrefaceIlyse Morgenstein Fuerst and Brannon WheelerIntroduction: A Shaykh for All OccasionsBruce B. Lawrence, Duke University1. Is Islam a ‘Religion’? Contesting Din-Religion Equivalence in Twentieth Century Islamist DiscourseBrannon Ingram, Northwestern University2. Muslim Writings on Hinduism in Colonial IndiaAli Mian, University of Florida3. Sons of the Green Light: Khidr and Sufism in the Ansaru Allah Community/Nubian Islamic Hebrews (AAC/NIH)Michael Muhammad Knight, University of Central Florida4. Religion/Islam/Hinduism/Sufism/YogaJoy and James W. Laine, both at Macalester College5. 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 Oregon6. It’s in the Bones”: Muslim Pathologies and the Problem of Representation in DisgracedSamah Choudhry, University of North Carolina7. Sufism’s Ambivalent PublicsKatherine Pratt Ewing, Columbia University8. Sufi Cyberscapes: The Inayati Order in the Virtual Ecosystem of American IslamRobert Rozehnal, Lehigh University 9. Carl Ernst’s Methodology of Sufi StudiesF. Cangüzel Zülfikar, Uskudar University10. Translation, Travel, Transfiguration and the Practice of Scholarship in the Study of ReligionBrannon Wheeler 11. Negotiating the State and the Persianate: Ernst’s Living Legacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel HillCandace Mixon, University of North Carolina (PhD Candidate)12. Writing, Doing, and Performing the Future of Islamic Studies: The Practical Example of Carl W. ErnstIlyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst13. Epistemic Authority and a Just World: Remaking Islamic Studies through Collaborative PracticesKatie Merriman, University of North Carolina (PhD Candidate)AfterwordCarl W. Ernst, University of North Carolina