Bruce B. Lawrence, Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Religion

Please note: Bruce has left the "Duke Middle East Studies Center" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

The Comparative Study of Religious Movements; Institutional Islam, especially in Asia; Indo-Persian Sufism; the Religious Masks of Violence; Contemporary Islam as Abrahamic Faith and Religious Ideology

Contact Info:

Office Location:	314 Gray Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:	(919) 660-3506
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://middleeaststudies.duke.edu/~bbl

Education:

Ph.D.	Yale University	1972
Honorary PhD	Virginia Theological Seminary	2006

Research Interests: Islam, India, and Religion in Cyberspace

Current projects: religious minorities in Africa and Asia

The Comparative Study of Religious Movements; Institutional Islam, especially in Asia; Indo-Persian Sufism; the Religious Masks of Violence; Contemporary Islam as Abrahamic Faith and Religious Ideology

Areas of Interest:

inter-religious competition and cooperation

Keywords:

networks, • institutions, • Sufism, • fundamentalism, • modernism

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Lawrence, BB, Writing Self, Writing Empire: Chandar Bhan Brahman and the Cultural World of the Indo-Persian State Secretary. By Rajeev Kinra. Oakland: University of California Press, 2015. xix, 371 pp. ISBN: 9780520286467 (paper, also available in cloth and as e-book)., The Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 78 no. 1 (February, 2019), pp. 223-224, Duke University Press [doi]
2. Lawrence, BB, The Koran in English: A Biography (June, 2017), pp. 280 pages, Princeton University Press, ISBN 9781400887798  [abs]
3. Lawrence, BB, Ancient Religions, Modern Politics: The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective. By Michael Cook, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 85 no. 2 (June, 2017), pp. 555-558, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi]
4. Lawrence, BB, The Study Quran: A New Translation and CommentarySeyyedHossein Nasr, Editor‐in‐Chief General Editors: Caner K.Dagli, Maria MassiDakake, Joseph E. B.Lumbard Assistant Editor: MohammedRustomSan Francisco: HarperOne, 20152048pp. Cloth, $59.99, ISBN: 978‐0061125867, The Muslim World, vol. 106 no. 3 (July, 2016), pp. 633-638, Wiley [doi]
5. Kurzman, C; Lawrence, BB, Muslim modernities: Interdisciplinary insights across time and space, edited by Ray, DE; Gedacht, J, Muslim World, vol. 105 no. 4 (October, 2015), pp. 440-445, WILEY [doi]