Ahmet T. Karamustafa
Office Contact Information
Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 1062
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
Research specialization
Books
Sufism: The Formative Period, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, Berkeley: University of California Press, and Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2007.
God's Unruly Friends: Dervish Groups in the Islamic Later Middle Period, 1200-1550. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1994. Paperback reprint: Oxford: Oneworld, 2006. Turkish translation: Tanrının Kural Tanımaz Kulları. Translated by Ruşen Sezer. Istanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2007. Partial Hebrew translation (chapters 1&3) in Jama'a, Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of the Middle East 16 (2007): 97-129.
Vāhīdī's Menākıb-i Hvoca-i Cihān ve Netīce-i Cān: Critical Edition and Historical Analysis. Sources of Oriental Languages and Literatures, 17; Turkish Sources, 15. Cambridge, Mass.: The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, 1993.
Assistant Editor, The History of Cartography, Volume 2, Book 1, Cartography in the Traditional Islamic and South Asian Societies. General editors J. B. Harley and David Woodward. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992 (awarded the R. R. Hawkins Award for Best Scholarly Book [1992] by the Association of American Publishers).
Articles/Essays
“Companionship (suhbat) versus Books (kitāb) according to ‘Azīz-i Nasafī.” For a special issue of the Canadian journal Studies in Religion on Sufism edited by Atif Khalil. In press.
“Islamic ‘Dīn’ as an Alternative to Western Models of ‘Religion’,” in Theory/Religion/Critique: Classic and Contemporary Approaches, edited by Richard King. New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2013.
“Speaker, Voice and Audience in the Koran and the Mathnawi.” Sufi 79, 36-45. London: Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Publications, Summer/Autumn 2010.
“Community,” in Key Themes for the Study of Islam, 93-103. Edited by Jamal J. Elias. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2010.
“Hacı Bektaş Veli ve Anadolu’da Müslümanlık [Hacı Bektaş Veli and Being Muslim in Anatolia],” in Güneşte Zerresinde,Deryada Katresinden:Uluslararası Hacı Bektaş Veli Sempozyumu Bildirileri. Ankara: Alevi Enstitüsü, 2010.
"Sufism," in Voices of Islam, Volume 1, Voices of Tradition, 249-69. Edited by Vincent J. Cornell. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2007.
"Origins of Anatolian Sufism." In Sufism and Sufis in Ottoman Society: Sources, Doctrine, Rituals, Turuq, Architecture, Literature and Fine Arts, Modernism, 67-95. Edited by Ahmet Yaşar Ocak. Ankara: Turkish Historical Society, 2005. Simultaneously released in Turkish under the title "Yesevîlik, Melametîlik, Kalenderîlik, Vefâ'îlik ve Anadolu Tasavvufunun Kökenleri Sorunu." In Osmanlı Toplumunda Tasavvuf ve Sufiler: Kaynaklar, Doktrin, Ayin ve Erkan, Tarikatlar, Edebiyat, Mimari, Ikonografi, Modernizm, 61-88. Edited by Ahmet Yaşar Ocak. Ankara: Turkish Historical Society, 2005.
“Walāyah according to al-Junayd (d. 910).” In Reason and Inspiration in Islam: Theology, Philosophy and Mysticism in Muslim Thought [in honor of Hermann Landolt], 62-68. Edited by Todd Lawson. London: The Institute of Ismaili Studies in association with I. B. Tauris, 2005. In Reason and Inspiration in Islam: Theology, Philosophy and Mysticism in Muslim Thought [in honor of Hermann Landolt], 62-68. Edited by Todd Lawson. London: The Institute of Ismaili Studies in association with I. B. Tauris, 2005.
"Islam: A Civilizational Project in Progress." In Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism, 98-110. Edited by Omid Safi. Oxford: OneWorld, 2003.
"Elmalılı Muhammed Hamdi Yazır's (1878-1946) Philosophy of Religion," Archivum Ottomanicum 19 (2001): 273-279.
"Early Sufism in Eastern Anatolia." In Persian Sufism: From its Origins to Rumi, 175-98. Edited by Leonard Lewisohn. London: Khaniqahi Nimatullahi Publications, 1994.
"Antinomian Dervish as Model Saint." In Modes de transmission de la culture religieuse en Islam, 241-60. Edited by Hassan Elboudrari. Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1993.
"Kalenders, Abdāls, Hayderīs: The Formation of the Bektaşiye in the Sixteenth Century." In Süleyman the Second and his Time, 121-129. Edited by Halil Inalcık and Cemal Kafadar. Istanbul: İsis, 1993.
Unauthorized Turkish translation of this article: Hacı Bektaş Velî Araştırma Dergisi 11(1999): 60-68, <http://www.hbektas.gazi.edu.tr/11hbv/11Karamustafa.htm>.
"Introduction to Islamic Maps." In The History of Cartography, 3-11.
"Cosmographical Diagrams." In The History of Cartography, 71-89.
"Introduction to Ottoman Cartography." In The History of Cartography, 206-208.
"Military, Administrative, and Scholarly Maps and Plans." In The History of Cartography, 209-227.
Encyclopedia/Reference Work Articles
“Individualism” for the Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought. Edited by Gerhard Böwering and Patricia Crone. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011 (in press).
“Baraq Baba,” The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3d ed, in press.
"Sufism," in The Encyclopedia of Christianity (vol. 5: 47-51). Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans and Leiden: Brill, 2007.
"Darkness," "Fate," "Strangers and Foreigners" and "Suicide," in The Encyclopaedia of the Qur'ān, 5 vols. Edited by Jane Dammen McAuliffe. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2001-05.
"Early Turkish Islamic Literature," section 10 of article "Turk," The Encyclopaedia of Islam, new edition, vol.10, 715-716.
"Menakıb-i Hvoca-i Cihan ve Netice-i Can," Türkiye Diyanet Vakfı, İslam Ansiklopedisi.
"Esmā'īl i Safawī: His Poetry." Encyclopedia Iranica, vol.8 (1998), 635-636.
"Islamic Terrestrial Maps and Mapmaking," in The Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, 573-77. Edited by Helaine Selin. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
"Dede Korkut," "Karagöz," and "Nasrettin Hoja," in The Dictionary of Global Culture, 171, 358, and 476. Edited by H. L. Gates and A. Appiah. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
"Muslim Literature in Persian and Turkish," in The Muslim Almanac: A Reference Work on the History, Faith, Culture, and Peoples of Islam, 345-353. Edited by Azim Nanji. New York: Gale Research, Inc., 1995.
"Otman Baba," in Lexikon des Mittelalters, vol.6, col.1560. Munich: Artemis & Winkler Verlag, 1993.
Translation
"On the Seven Invocations and the Seven Journeys," translation from Turkish of a selection from Vāhīdī's Menākıb-i Hvoca-i Cihān ve Netīce-i Cān," in Windows on the House of Islam: Muslim Sources on Spirituality and Religious Life, 311-317. Edited by John Renard. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
"Sarı Saltık Becomes a Friend of God," translation from Turkish of a selection from Ebu'l-Hayr-i Rūmī's Saltuknāme, in Tales of God's Friends: Islamic Hagiography in Translation, 136-44. Edited by John Renard. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.
Work in Progress
Book project tentatively titled The Flowering of Sufism (11th & 12th centuries CE).
Book project tentatively titled Vernacular Islam: Everyday Religious Life under the Saljuqs (1050-1250CE).
Co-editor (with Fatemeh Keshavarz) of Persian Religious and Mystical Literature, a volume in the series A History of Persian Literature, edited by Ehsan Yarshater and published by I. B Taurus, scheduled for publication in 2013.
Two chapters for The Wiley-Blackwell History of Islam and Islamic Civilization (9-10,000 words each), edited by Armando Salvatore: Chapter 7 “From Pietism to Schism” in Part II The ‘High Caliphate’ (ca. 661-950) and Chapter 15 “Organization and Localism within Sufism” in Part IV The Late Middle Periods (ca. 1258-1453).
“İslam tasavvuf düşüncesinde Yunus Emre’nin yeri” in Turkish (7-8,000 words), [“The Place of Yunus Emre in Sufi Thought”] for Yunus Emre Kitabı [“The Book of Yunus Emre”] edited by Ahmet Y. Ocak and to be published by T.C. Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınlar Dairesi, Ankara.
“"Kaygusuz Abdal: A Medieval Turkish Saint & The Formation of Vernacular Islam in Anatolia" (8400 words). For “Norm”, Transgression and Identity in Islam : Diversity of Approaches and Interpretations / « Norme », transgression et identité en Islam : diversité d’approches et d’interprétations edited by Orkhan Mir Kasimov and to be published by Brill.
“Antinomian Sufism” (9-10,000 words) for The Cambridge Companion to Sufism edited by Lloyd Ridgeon.
“ ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani” for Oxford Bibliographies Online.
“Samā‘” for Encyclopedia Iranica.
2011-13 PI (along with Asad Ahmed and Jon McGinnis), Mellon-Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures entitled “Graeco-Arabic Rationalism in Islamic Traditionalism: the Post Classical Period (ca. 1200-1900CE).”
2004 Annemarie Schimmel Award, from the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London UK.
Introduction to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (ReSt 105)
Islamic Civilization (JNE 210)
Islamic Religion: An Introduction (ReSt 224)
Theories of Religion (ReSt 260)
Islamic History 600-1200 (History 313)
Islamic History 1200-1800 (History 314)
Middle Eastern Islamic Literatures in Translation (Arab 329)
Islam in Africa (ReSt 347)
Sufism: The Struggle with "Self" in Islam (ReSt 3591)
Sufism: Mystic in Islamic History (History 39T8)
Approaches to the Qur'an and Muhammad (ReSt 366)
Islamic Movements of Reform, Revival and Revolution (JNE 370)
Islamic Religious Traditions (ReSt 403)
Judaism and Islam in Comparative Perspective (JNE 4070)
Soul, Self, Person in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (ReSt 417)
God's Friends: Saints in Islam (JNE 445)
Religion in Global Context (ReSt 471)
Islam and Modernity (ReSt 487/JNE 490)
Proseminar in Methods and Approaches in Islamic Studies (JNE 4901)
Understanding Islamic Rituals (ReSt 490)
Islam in Medieval Asia Minor (ReSt 490)
Islamic Legal Traditions (ReSt 490)
Islam in North America and Europe (ReSt 491)
Core Seminar in Comparative and World History: Pre-Industrial Societies of the Medieval and Early Modern Eras (History 5431)
Core Seminar in Comparative and World History: Islam in the Medieval Mediterranean, 1000-1500 (History 5431).