Bruce B Lawrence
Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion
Director, Duke Islamic Studies Center

Office Location: 324 Gray Building
Office Phone: (919) 660-3506
Email Address: bruce.bbl@gmail.com

Specialties:
Islam
Culture
Hinduism

Education:
Honorary PhD, Virginia Theological Seminary, 2006
PhD, Yale University, 1972

Research Categories: Islam, India, and Religion in Cyberspace

Current projects: manifesto on contemporary Islam, , minorities - Muslim-Christian and Christian-Muslim, , prophecy and power

Research Description: 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

Teaching (Fall 2009):   (typical courses)

• RELIGION 185S.01, Special topics Synopsis

  Gray 319, M 02:50 PM-05:05 PM

• RELIGION 195S.01, Jr/sr seminars (top) Synopsis

  Gray 319, W 02:50 PM-05:05 PM

Teaching (Spring 2010):   (typical courses)

• RELIGION 154FCS.01, Qu'ran over time

  Gray 319, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM

• AMES 254S.01, Muslim networks Synopsis

  Languages 211, W 02:50 PM-05:20 PM

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.) .

Curriculum Vitae

Highlight:
Bruce Lawrence earned his PhD. from Yale University in the History of Religions: Islam and Hinduism. His research ranges from institutional Islam to Indo-Persian Sufism and also encompasses the comparative study of religious movements. He currently serves as the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of the Humanities at Duke University, where he also directs the Duke Islamic Studies Center. His recent books have included On Violence - A Reader (with Aisha Karim); Messages to the World, The Statements of Osama Bin Laden; The Quran, A Biography; and, with his spouse, dr. miriam cooke, Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop.