Gerhard Böwering

Gerhard Böwering served as Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies from 1984 to 2021.  He taught previously at the University of Pennsylvania and has been a visiting professor at the University of Innsbruck, Princeton University, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He has published The Mystical Vision of Existence in Classical Islam, Berlin-New York 1980; The Minor Qur’an Commentary of al-Sulami, Beirut 1995, 2nd ed. 1997; Sufi Treatises, Beirut 2009; Sufi Inquiries and Interpretations, Beirut 2010; and The Comfort of the Mystics, Leiden 2013; as well as numerous articles, including those in the Encyclopaedia of Islam, the Encyclopedia of the Qur’an, and the Encyclopaedia Iranica. He is the editor-in-chief of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, Princeton 2012; Work in progress includes the following books: Islam and Christianity: the Inner Dynamics of Two Cultures of Belief, Notre Dame University Press; and The Dreams and Labors of a Central Asian Muslim Mystic. He was the recipient of a Mellon fellowship (1992), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2005-2006), and a fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2006). In 2004-2005 he gave the Erasmus Lectures at Notre Dame. He has been a member of the American Philosophical Society since 1994.