Research Interests for Bruce B Lawrence

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

Keywords:

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

Current projects:

religious minorities in Africa and Asia

Areas of Interest:

inter-religious competition and cooperation

Recent Publications

1. with Bruce B. Lawrence & Aisha Karim, Chain of Violence- an Anthology (Fall, 2007) [book_detail_page.htm&user_id=12171517611&Bmain.item_option=1&Bmain.item=9007] [abs] [author's comments]
2. B.B. Lawrence, The Qur'an - A Biography, Books that Changed the World (2007), Grove/Atlantic (A cross over book, with wide appeal for general readers as well as specialists in Islamic studies.) [wc.dll] [abs] [author's comments]
3. New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims & Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life (2002), New York: Columbia University Press (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 (2002), New York: Palgrave Press (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 (2000), Gainesville, University Press of Florida (354 pp. Essays from the Rockefeller Institute on South Asian Islam and the Greater Muslim World, convened at Duke in April 1995.)