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Vincent J. CornellAsa Griggs Candler Professor
Biography
Education/Degrees
- Ph.D, Islamic Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
- B.A., Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Teaching/Research Areas
- Islamic Theology and Philosophy
- Islamic Mysticism
- Islamic Spain and North Africa
- Islamic Law and Moral Philosophy
- The Study of Sainthood
- Historiography and Civilization Studies
- Islamic Esotericism
Books Published
- The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Islamic Spirituality, with Bruce B. Lawrence (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2023)
- Do Jews, Christians, and Muslims Worship the Same God? with Baruch Levine, Jacob Neusner, and Bruce Chilton (Abingdon Press, 2012)
- Voices of Islam, 5 volumes (Praeger, 2007)
- Realm of the Saint: Power and Authority in Moroccan Sufism (University of Texas Press, 1998)
- The Way of Abū Madyan: Doctrinal and Poetic Works of Abū Madyan Shu‘ayb ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Anṣārī (ca. 509/1115-16—594/1198 (The Islamic Texts Society, 1996).
- The Book of the Glory of the Black Race: al-Jahiz’s Kitab Fakhr as-Sudan ‘ala al-Bidan (The Phyllis Preston Collection, 1981)
