Carl W. Ernst

Carl W. Ernst is an award-winning specialist in Islamic studies, whose work has been mainly devoted to the study of three areas: general and critical issues of Islamic studies, premodern and contemporary Sufism, and Indo-Muslim culture. He has received research fellowships from the Fulbright program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and he has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His current research projects include studies of Muslim interpreters of Indian religions, and a translation of the Arabic poetry of al-Hallaj.

Ernst has a bachelor’s degree in comparative religion from Stanford University and a PhD from Harvard University. He is now the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.