Curriculum Vitae

0018 Trent Drive Durham, NC 27708

(919) 660-3506 (office) (email)

Education

Honorary PhD	Virginia Theological Seminary	2006
PhD	Yale University	1972

Areas of Research

Islam, India, and Religion in Cyberspace

Areas of Interest

inter-religious competition and cooperation

Professional Service

Director, Duke Islamic Studies Center, institutional membership, 2005 - present

Co-editor, with Carl Ernst of UNC-CH, of a new monograph series from UNC-CH Press, Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks, 2002-

International Advisory Board for the Oxford Centre of Islamic Studies, 2002-

Chair, Chair, Tenure Review Committee, May 15, 2004

member, Admissions Committee, January 05, 2004

member, VP Advisory Committee for International Affairs, January, 2004

Selected Recent Invited Talks

Islam beyond Terror, Phillips Exeter Academy, 2006

Muslim-Christian Relations Beyond the Headlines, Viriginia Theological Seminary, 2006

Osama bin Laden: the Man and the Myth, US Naval Academy, 2006

Writing Terror: Osama bin Laden as Public Villain and Media Star, Boston University Institute of Philosophy and Religion, 2006

Globalization, Identity,Diversity, Forum Barcelona 2004, 2004

Politics and Islam in Comparative Perspective: Turkey, Iran and Indonesia, Simon Fraser University Centre for International Studies, 2004

Response to James Carroll for Religion and Conflict Solomon-Tannenbaum Symposium at USC, Columbia South Carolina, 2004

Further two week conference on Muslim Personal Law, Capetown, South Africa, 2002

Holstein Family Lecture, University of California - Riverside, 2002

How to Think about Islam, Lead off Keynoter in Year Long Program at Hillsdale College, 2002

Islam - Past Glories, Present Challenges, Future Hopes, Santagata Family Fall 2002 Lectureship at Bowdoin College, 2002

Religion and Conflict: The Role of Fundamentalism(s), Iowa State University, Lead off Speaker in Year Long Program, 2002

Religious Toleration & Civic Tolerance - The Case of Islam, Wayne State University, Inaugural Lecture for Religious Studies Dpt, 2002

The Longer View of the Axis of Evil, Major Colloquium on 11 September Retrospect at Williams College, 2002

Delivered two major papers, one on “Religion in Cyberspace”, the other on “Religious Tolerance, International Association for the History of Religions Conference in Durban, South Africa, 2000, August

Is God in Cyberspace?, Guest on Odyssey Channel program for the Real Bottom Line, filmed in NYC, then aired nationwide, 2000

Civil Society in the USA and Tunisia, UNESCO Chair of Philosophy Lecturer at University of Tunis in Tunis, 2000, late March

Islam in the Public Square, Cornell University, undefined 0305, 2010

Publications

Books

1. with Bruce B. Lawrence & Aisha Karim. Chain of Violence- an Anthology. Fall, Fall, 2007.
2. B.B. Lawrence. The Qur'an - A Biography.  Books that Changed the World Grove/Atlantic, 2007. (A cross over book, with wide appeal for general readers as well as specialists in Islamic studies)
3.  New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims & Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. (197 pages. Finalist for AAR Book Prize in Analytical Category for 2003)
4. with Carl Ernst. Sufi Martyrs to Love: The Chishti Brotherhood in South Asia & Beyond.  New York: Palgrave Press, 2002. (241 pages.* nominated for 2003 Coomaraswamy Prize as most original book on South Asian culture)
5.  Beyond Turk and Hindu: Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia.  edited by Bruce B Lawrence and David Gilmartin Gainesville, University Press of Florida, 2000. (354 pp. Essays from the Rockefeller Institute on South Asian Islam and the Greater Muslim World, convened at Duke in April 1995)

Books In Preparation