Contact
Purdue University Fort Wayne
Department of History
2101 E. Coliseum Blvd.
Fort Wayne
IN
46805-1499
United States
ABOUT
Erik S. Ohlander is Professor of History and Religious Studies at Purdue University Fort Wayne. A specialist in the history of Sufism, he has served as Executive Editor of the Journal of Sufi Studies (2011–2020) and as well as one of the Associate Editors (religion and Islamic law) for MESA's Review of Middle East Studies (2009–2013). He has published widely in the areas of the history of Sufism, Qur'anic studies, and the religious, social and cultural history of the medieval Muslim world.
Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
Islamic Studies
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
Medieval
History Of Religion
Islamic Thought
7th-13th Centuries
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Iran
Islamic World
Turkey
Specialties
Sufism
Qur'anic Studies
Social & Cultural Hist. Of Islamic Middle Periods
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Persian (advanced)
Turkish (elementary)
Urdu (elementary)
French (intermediate)
German (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2004
| Near Eastern Studies
| U of Michigan
MA
| 2000
| Near Eastern Studies
| U of Michigan
BA
| 1997
| Area Studies
| U of Minnesota
Abstracts
From Cairo to Mecca and Back Again: What a Thirteenth-Century Sufi Scholar Collected along the Way
The Organizing Concept of “khirqa” in the Tiryaq al-muhibbin of Taqi al-Din al-Wasiti (d. 744/1343)
