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.

Preface
Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst and Brannon Wheeler
Introduction: A Shaykh for All Occasions
Bruce B. Lawrence, Duke University

1. Is Islam a ‘Religion’? Contesting Din-Religion Equivalence in Twentieth Century Islamist Discourse
Brannon Ingram, Northwestern University
2. Muslim Writings on Hinduism in Colonial India
Ali Mian, University of Florida
3. Sons of the Green Light: Khidr and Sufism in the Ansaru Allah Community/Nubian Islamic Hebrews (AAC/NIH)
Michael Muhammad Knight, University of Central Florida
4. Religion/Islam/Hinduism/Sufism/Yoga
Joy and James W. Laine, both at Macalester College
5. 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 Oregon
6. It’s in the Bones”: Muslim Pathologies and the Problem of Representation in Disgraced
Samah Choudhry, University of North Carolina
7. Sufism’s Ambivalent Publics
Katherine Pratt Ewing, Columbia University
8. Sufi Cyberscapes: The Inayati Order in the Virtual Ecosystem of American Islam
Robert Rozehnal, Lehigh University
9. Carl Ernst’s Methodology of Sufi Studies
F. Cangüzel Zülfikar, Uskudar University
10. Translation, Travel, Transfiguration and the Practice of Scholarship in the Study of Religion
Brannon Wheeler
11. Negotiating the State and the Persianate: Ernst’s Living Legacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Candace Mixon, University of North Carolina (PhD Candidate)
12. Writing, Doing, and Performing the Future of Islamic Studies: The Practical Example of Carl W. Ernst
Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst
13. Epistemic Authority and a Just World: Remaking Islamic Studies through Collaborative Practices
Katie Merriman, University of North Carolina (PhD Candidate)

Afterword
Carl W. Ernst, University of North Carolina