Words of Experience
Translating Islam with Carl W. Ernst
edited by Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst and Brannon M Wheeler
Carl W. Ernst devoted his academic life to translating Islam, linguistically and culturally, typically within the intellectual context of religious studies. His work has focussed on how Islamic concepts have travelled across time and space and his influence on Islamic studies and religious studies is far-reaching. This volume features contributions from long-standing colleagues, scholars whose own work has built on Ernst’s contributions, and former students. It looks at themes in Islamic studies which Ernst has addressed and expands on his major contributions. Essays in this volume touch nearly every major element in Islamic studies – from the Qur’an to Sufism, Islamophobia to South Asian Islam, historical and contemporary praxis, music and more. This collection demonstrates one core tenant of Ernst’s work, specifically the argument that Islam is not rooted in one place, time or language, but is a vast network, routed though myriad places, times and languages.
- Edited by Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst
- Edited by Brannon M. Wheeler
"Breaking down the Islam/West binary, Ernst has created an opening for varied Muslim voices and histories to take their rightful place in the contemporary academic and cultural landscape." Powers, Janet M., Religion, 15 Mar 2023 ". . . . full of contributions worth reading, chewing over, engaging, disagreeing, and being inspired to think further on Sufism, Islam, and the study of religion." Rizvi, Sajjadj, Religious Studies Review, December 2021 "When taken as a whole, this rich and diverse collection of essays, reflects in many ways the rhythmic ebb and flow at the heart of Carl Ernst's vital and animating body of scholarship. Each piece, in its own matter, is working to carve new pathways. Whether engaging with specific subfields, exploring the limits, ambiguities, and intersections of disciplines, or critically assessing and challenging the structures of the academy, the works gathered herein disclose where the thrumming heart of scholarship could and ought to go." Nguyen, Martin, Journal of Sufi Studies 11 (2022) "Whether engaging with specific subfields, exploring the limits, ambiguities, and intersections of disciplines, or critically assessing and challenging the structures of the academy, the works gathered herein disclose where the thrumming heart of scholarship could and ought to go." Nguyen, Martin, Fairfield University, journal of Sufi Studies 11 (2022)
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Other Titles in this Series
Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere
A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of Islam
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