Gerhard Böwering
Professor of Religious Studies and Islamic Studies
Baccalaureate, Deutsches Gymnasium Wurzburg;
Ph.L.,
Philosophische Hochschule Pullach;
Diploma, Panjab University;
Th.L., Montreal; Ph.D., McGill University
Curriculum Vitae
Gerhard Böwering has been Professor of Religious Studies in Islamic Studies since 1984. 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 Mystical Vision of Existence in Classical Islam: The Qur'anic Hermeneutics of the Sufi Sahl at-Tustari (d. 283/896), The Minor Quar'an Commentay of al-Sulami (Ziyadat haq'iq al-tafsir), Beirut 1995, 2nd ed. 1997, as well as numerous articles, including those in the Encyclopaedia of Islam, the Encyclopedia of the Qur'an, and the Encyclopaedia Iranica. Work in progress includes the following books: Islam and Christianity: the Inner Dymanics of Two Cultures of Belief, Notre Dame University Press 2007; and The Dreams and Labors of a Central Asian Muslim Mystic. He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2005-2006) and fellowships from the Institute for the Advanced Study, Princeton (1992 and 2006). In 2004-2005 he gave the Erasmus Lectures at Notre Dame.
