Carl W. Ernst
Autor de The Shambhala Guide to Sufism
Sobre El Autor
Carl W. Ernst, PhD, is a specialist in Islamic studies who is William R. Kenan, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of numerous books, including Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporary World. For mostrar más more information visit www.unc.edu/ mostrar menos
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Obras de Carl W. Ernst
Ruzbihan Baqli: Mysticism and the Rhetoric of Sainthood in Persian Sufism (Routledge Sufi Series) (1996) 10 copias
Rethinking Islamic Studies: From Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism (Studies in Comparative Religion) (2010) 10 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Ernst, Carl W.
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1950-09-08
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Palo Alto, California, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA - Educación
- Stanford University (AB|comparative religion)
Harvard University (PhD) - Ocupaciones
- university professor
scholar of Islamic studies - Organizaciones
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations - Premios y honores
- Bashrahil Prizefor Outstanding Cultural Achievement (2004)
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- Obras
- 15
- También por
- 4
- Miembros
- 511
- Popularidad
- #48,532
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 8
- ISBNs
- 42
- Idiomas
- 2
My only criticism is the structure felt a little sloppy at times, like his train of thought was frequently off the tracks. As readers we've been conditioned to expect (with good reason!) that ideas within a paragraph, for example, will be closely related to each other, and as the author moves from sentence to sentence to develop these ideas, they will flow from one into the other in a logical manner. I frequently found myself re-reading sections of this book because I felt Ernst was just going from one idea to the next – within a paragraph – with very little, if anything, threading them together.
All in all a good book, though, and I'd recommend it to someone interested in a serious but not stilted introduction to Sufism.… (más)