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== Biography == | ==Biography== | ||
His published research, based on the study of Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, has been mainly devoted to the study of three areas: | His published research, based on the study of Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, has been mainly devoted to the study of three areas: | ||
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He has done extended research tours in India (1978-79, 1981), Pakistan (1986, 2000, 2005), and Turkey (1991), and has been a regular visitor to the Gulf, Turkey, Iran, and Southeast Asia for lectures and conferences | He has done extended research tours in India (1978-79, 1981), Pakistan (1986, 2000, 2005), and Turkey (1991), and has been a regular visitor to the Gulf, Turkey, Iran, and Southeast Asia for lectures and conferences | ||
== Educations == | ==Educations== | ||
* Ph.D., Harvard University, the Study of Religion, 1981 | *Ph.D., Harvard University, the Study of Religion, 1981 | ||
* B.A., Stanford University, Humanities Honors/Religious Studies, 1973 | *B.A., Stanford University, Humanities Honors/Religious Studies, 1973 | ||
== Activities == | ==Activities== | ||
* Professor at Pomona College (1981-1992) | *Professor at Pomona College (1981-1992) | ||
* Visiting lecturer in Paris (EHESS, 1991, 2003, plus each May, 2018-20) | *Visiting lecturer in Paris (EHESS, 1991, 2003, plus each May, 2018-20) | ||
* Department chair (1995-2000) of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | *Department chair (1995-2000) of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | ||
* Member of the Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association | *Member of the Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association | ||
* Co-Director in UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies | *Co-Director in UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies | ||
* President of the American Society for the Study of Religion | *President of the American Society for the Study of Religion | ||
* Co-Editor in Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks Series, University of North Carolina Press | *Co-Editor in Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks Series, University of North Carolina Press | ||
* Co-editors of the Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks Series at the University of North Carolina Press | *Co-editors of the Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks Series at the University of North Carolina Press | ||
== Honors == | ==Honors== | ||
* Global Humanities Translation Prize, Buffett Institute – Northwestern University, 2017, for Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr. | *Global Humanities Translation Prize, Buffett Institute – Northwestern University, 2017, for Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr. | ||
* Mellon Distinguished Fellow, Arts the Core Program, Carolina Performing Arts, 2016-17. | *Mellon Distinguished Fellow, Arts the Core Program, Carolina Performing Arts, 2016-17. | ||
* Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina, spring 2014. | *Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina, spring 2014. | ||
* Choice Outstanding Academic Title, for Islamophobia in America, 2013. | *Choice Outstanding Academic Title, for Islamophobia in America, 2013. | ||
* John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2010) | *John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (2010) | ||
* American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow (2009) | *American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow (2009) | ||
* Book awards for Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World (Cairo, 2004; Istanbul, 2005; Shiraz, 2007); for Ruzbihan Baqli: Mystical Experience and the Rhetoric of Sainthood in Persian Sufism (Tehran, 2008) | *Book awards for Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World (Cairo, 2004; Istanbul, 2005; Shiraz, 2007); for Ruzbihan Baqli: Mystical Experience and the Rhetoric of Sainthood in Persian Sufism (Tehran, 2008) | ||
* Fulbright Fellow (India, 1978-79; Pakistan, 1986; Spain, 2001; Malaysia, 2005) | *Fulbright Fellow (India, 1978-79; Pakistan, 1986; Spain, 2001; Malaysia, 2005) | ||
* Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina, 2001. | *Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina, 2001. | ||
* National Endowment for the Humanities (Director, Summer Seminars for College Teachers, 1995, 1999; Research Fellowships, 1989-90, 1993) | *National Endowment for the Humanities (Director, Summer Seminars for College Teachers, 1995, 1999; Research Fellowships, 1989-90, 1993) | ||
== Publications == | ==Publications== | ||
=== Books === | ===Books=== | ||
* [https://www.amazon.com/Hallaj-Martyr-Husayn-ibn-Mansur-ebook/dp/B07G2LZ9TS/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=for+Hallaj%3A+Poems+of+a+Sufi+Martyr&qid=1600065794&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr. Translated by Carl W. Ernst (Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 2018)] | *[https://www.amazon.com/Hallaj-Martyr-Husayn-ibn-Mansur-ebook/dp/B07G2LZ9TS/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=for+Hallaj%3A+Poems+of+a+Sufi+Martyr&qid=1600065794&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr. Translated by Carl W. Ernst (Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 2018)] | ||
* [https://www.amazon.com/Islamophobia-America-Intolerance-C-Ernst-ebook/dp/B00C2RE2VC/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Islamophobia+in+America&qid=1600065853&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 Islamophobia in America] | *[https://www.amazon.com/Islamophobia-America-Intolerance-C-Ernst-ebook/dp/B00C2RE2VC/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Islamophobia+in+America&qid=1600065853&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 Islamophobia in America] | ||
* [https://www.amazon.com/Ruzbihan-Baqli-Mysticism-Sainthood-Routledge-ebook/dp/B00AZKV9Z0/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Sainthood+in+Persian+Sufism&qid=1600066002&s=digital-text&sr=1-3 Ruzbihan Baqli: Mystical Experience and the Rhetoric of Sainthood in Persian Sufism] | *[https://www.amazon.com/Ruzbihan-Baqli-Mysticism-Sainthood-Routledge-ebook/dp/B00AZKV9Z0/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Sainthood+in+Persian+Sufism&qid=1600066002&s=digital-text&sr=1-3 Ruzbihan Baqli: Mystical Experience and the Rhetoric of Sainthood in Persian Sufism] | ||
* [https://www.amazon.com/Following-Muhammad-Rethinking-Contemporary-Civilization-ebook/dp/B00ZVEBK04/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Rethinking+Islam+in+the+Contemporary+World&qid=1600065914&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003] | *[https://www.amazon.com/Following-Muhammad-Rethinking-Contemporary-Civilization-ebook/dp/B00ZVEBK04/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Rethinking+Islam+in+the+Contemporary+World&qid=1600065914&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003] | ||
* It’s not just academic: Essays on Islamic studies and Sufism. New Delhi: Yoda Press/Sage, 2017 | *It’s not just academic: Essays on Islamic studies and Sufism. New Delhi: Yoda Press/Sage, 2017 | ||
* Refractions of Islam in India: Situating Sufism and Yoga. New Delhi: Yoda Press/Sage, 2016 | *Refractions of Islam in India: Situating Sufism and Yoga. New Delhi: Yoda Press/Sage, 2016 | ||
* How to Read the Qur’an: A New Guide with Select Translations. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2011 | *How to Read the Qur’an: A New Guide with Select Translations. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2011 | ||
* Sufism: An Introduction to Islamic Mysticism. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2010 | *Sufism: An Introduction to Islamic Mysticism. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2010 | ||
=== Articles === | ===Articles=== | ||
* “Persianate Islamic Studies in American Universities.” In Iranian Studies in America: Looking Back, Looking Ahead, ed. Franklin Lewis and Erica Ehrenberg (American Institute of Iranian Studies/Eisenbruns, 2019) | *“Persianate Islamic Studies in American Universities.” In Iranian Studies in America: Looking Back, Looking Ahead, ed. Franklin Lewis and Erica Ehrenberg (American Institute of Iranian Studies/Eisenbruns, 2019) | ||
* “The Dabistān and Orientalist Views of Sufism.” In Sufism East and West: Mystical Islam and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Modern World, edited by Jamal Malik and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh, Studies on Sufism, 2 (Leiden: Brill, 2019), pp. 33–52 | *“The Dabistān and Orientalist Views of Sufism.” In Sufism East and West: Mystical Islam and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Modern World, edited by Jamal Malik and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh, Studies on Sufism, 2 (Leiden: Brill, 2019), pp. 33–52 | ||
* “Proto-Orientalist Concepts of Sufism.” In Islamic Studies and the Study of Sufism in Academia: Rethinking Methodologies, Kyoto Kenan Rifai Sufi Studies, 3 (Kyoto: Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University, 2019), pp. 23–38 | *“Proto-Orientalist Concepts of Sufism.” In Islamic Studies and the Study of Sufism in Academia: Rethinking Methodologies, Kyoto Kenan Rifai Sufi Studies, 3 (Kyoto: Kenan Rifai Center for Sufi Studies, Kyoto University, 2019), pp. 23–38 | ||
* “Wakened by the Dove’s Trill: Structure and Meaning in the Arabic Preface of Rumi’s Mathnawi, Book IV.” In The Philosophy of Ecstasy: Rumi and the Sufi Tradition, ed. Leonard Lewisohn (London: World Wisdom, 2014) | *“Wakened by the Dove’s Trill: Structure and Meaning in the Arabic Preface of Rumi’s Mathnawi, Book IV.” In The Philosophy of Ecstasy: Rumi and the Sufi Tradition, ed. Leonard Lewisohn (London: World Wisdom, 2014) | ||
* “‘A Little Indicates Much’: Structure and Meaning in the Prefaces of Rumi’s Mathnawi (Books I-III).” Mawlana Rumi Review V (2014), pp. 14-25 | *“‘A Little Indicates Much’: Structure and Meaning in the Prefaces of Rumi’s Mathnawi (Books I-III).” Mawlana Rumi Review V (2014), pp. 14-25 | ||
* “Disentangling the Persian Translations of Sanskrit Works on Yoga.” In L’espace Du Sens: Approches de La Philologie Indienne, edited by Silvia d’Intino and Sheldon Pollock, Publications de l’Institut de Civilisation Indienne, 84 (Paris: Collège de France. 2018), pp. 411–30 | *“Disentangling the Persian Translations of Sanskrit Works on Yoga.” In L’espace Du Sens: Approches de La Philologie Indienne, edited by Silvia d’Intino and Sheldon Pollock, Publications de l’Institut de Civilisation Indienne, 84 (Paris: Collège de France. 2018), pp. 411–30 | ||
* “A Persian Philosophical Defense of Vedanta.” In Voices of Three Generations: Essays in Honor of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, ed. Mohammad H. Faghfoory and Katherine O’Brien (Chicago: Kazi Publications, 2019) | *“A Persian Philosophical Defense of Vedanta.” In Voices of Three Generations: Essays in Honor of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, ed. Mohammad H. Faghfoory and Katherine O’Brien (Chicago: Kazi Publications, 2019) | ||
* “Tabaqat-i adyan-i Hind dar `ahd-i inglisiyan-i Hind (Anglo-Persian Taxonomies of Indian Religions) [in Persian].” Iran Namag 1/3 (Fall 2016), pp. 82-103 | *“Tabaqat-i adyan-i Hind dar `ahd-i inglisiyan-i Hind (Anglo-Persian Taxonomies of Indian Religions) [in Persian].” Iran Namag 1/3 (Fall 2016), pp. 82-103 | ||
* “Muslim Interpreters of Yoga.” In Yoga: The Art of Transformation, ed. Debra Diamond (Smithsonian Books, 2013), pp. 59-68 | *“Muslim Interpreters of Yoga.” In Yoga: The Art of Transformation, ed. Debra Diamond (Smithsonian Books, 2013), pp. 59-68 | ||
* “Indian Lovers in Arabic and Persian Guise: Azad Bilgrami’s Depiction of nayikas.” The Journal of Hindu Studies (2013), pp. 1-15 | *“Indian Lovers in Arabic and Persian Guise: Azad Bilgrami’s Depiction of nayikas.” The Journal of Hindu Studies (2013), pp. 1-15 | ||
* “Islamic Studies in U.S. Universities,” co-author with Charles Kurzman. Review of Middle East Studies 46/1 (Summer 2012), pp. 24-46 | *“Islamic Studies in U.S. Universities,” co-author with Charles Kurzman. Review of Middle East Studies 46/1 (Summer 2012), pp. 24-46 | ||
* “The Limits of Universalism in Islamic Thought: The Case of Indian Religions.” Muslim World 101 (January 2011), pp. 1-19 | *“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 (Moscow/Tehran), vol. 1 (2010), pp. 23-34 | *“‘The West and Islam?’ Rethinking Orientalism and Occidentalism.” Ishraq: Islamic Philosophy Yearbook (Moscow/Tehran), vol. 1 (2010), pp. 23-34 | ||
* “Sufism, Islam, and Globalization in the Contemporary World: Methodological Reflections on a Changing Field of Study.” In Memoriam: The 4th Victor Danner Memorial Lecture. Bloomington, IN: Department of Near Eastern Languages, 2009 | *“Sufism, Islam, and Globalization in the Contemporary World: Methodological Reflections on a Changing Field of Study.” In Memoriam: The 4th Victor Danner Memorial Lecture. Bloomington, IN: Department of Near Eastern Languages, 2009 | ||
* “Situating Sufism and Yoga.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Series 3, 15:1 (2005), pp. 15-43 | *“Situating Sufism and Yoga.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Series 3, 15:1 (2005), pp. 15-43 | ||
== | === Graduate and postdoctoral advising === | ||
* [https://religion.unc.edu/_people/full-time-faculty/ernst/ Personal website] | * [[Karen G. Ruffle]], “Verses Dripping Blood: A Study of the Religious Elements of [[Mohtasham Kashani|Muhtasham Kashani]]'s [[Karbala]]-nameh.” M.A., Religious Studies, UNC, 2001. | ||
* [http://carlwernst.web.unc.edu/home/ Carl Ernst's Website] | |||
==Sources== | |||
*[https://religion.unc.edu/_people/full-time-faculty/ernst/ Personal website] | |||
*[http://carlwernst.web.unc.edu/home/ Carl Ernst's Website] | |||
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