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Translating Islam: A Conference in Honor of Carl Ernst
October 6, 2017 @ 9:30 am - October 7, 2017 @ 5:30 pm
About the Conference
Carl Ernst has devoted his academic life to translating Islam, linguistically and culturally. From his first book, Words of Ecstasy in Sufism (1985), to his most recent book, co-edited with Fabrizio Speziale, Perso-Indica: An Analytical Survey of Persian Works on Indian Learned Traditions (2017), he has focused on how Islamic concepts have traveled across time and space. This conference, organized around themes in Islamic studies that Ernst’s work has addressed, evokes and expands on the major contributions of this fertile, creative translator of texts, ideas, and traditions within the orb of Islam.
Includes panels on “Islam at Large”, “Indo-Muslim Ventures”, “Translation Issues”, “Sufi Studies”, “Islamic Studies”, and “The Future of Islamic Studies.”
The conference is free and open to the public. Registration requested.
Contact
Shai Tamari: tamari@email.unc.edu
Sponsors
- Department of Religious Studies
- Global Education Fund/College of Arts & Sciences
- Chancellor’s Global Education Fund, Institute of Arts & Humanities
- Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations
- Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies