Lectures, Interviews, and Book Talks
Author chat on the new publication Breathtaking Revelations: The Science of Breath, from the Fifty Kamarupa Verses to Hazrat Inayat Khan, Featuring Pir Zia Inayat Khan, Carl Ernst, and Patrick D’Silva
Interview of Carl Ernst and Patrick D’Silva by Supriya Gandhi (from Yoga Studies Symposium)
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Omar, the Opera
UNC scholarship on Omar ibn Said
Video interviews with Carl Ernst, Mbaye Lo, and Mark Simpson-Vos on the Pulitzer Prize-wining opera “Omar” composed by Rhiannon Giddens
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The Poetry of Hallaj
A conversation between Carl Ernst and Cyrus Zargar hosted by Oludamini Ogunnaike. Episode 2 of “The Logic of the Birds,” a project on Sufi poetry.
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Online course
Four lectures plus four Q&A sessions
Sponsored by YogicStudies.com
https://www.yogicstudies.com/ys-123
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Interviews
New Books Network interview podcast on
I Cannot Write My Life
Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said’s America
interview by SherAli Tareen
August 25, 2023
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Lectures
What is the “Autobiography” of Omar ibn Said? [video link]
Inaugural Abbasi Annual Lecture at Stanford University, Jan. 18, 2023
Webinar
Dune and Islam:
Carl Ernst and Michael Muhammad Knight, Nov. 13, 2021
‘Impossible Documents’ — How an Enslaved Muslim
Scholar Illuminates Southern Identity.
Carl Ernst with Mbaye Lo, North Carolina Public Radio,
Interview by Frank Stasio, “The State of Things.” June 9, 2020.
Book Talks
Words of Experience:Translating Islam with Carl W. Ernst
New Books in Islamic Studies: SherAli Tareen interview with Carl Ernst,
with Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst, and Brannon M. Wheeler,
editors of Words of Experience; Translating Islam with Carl W. Ernst. Sheffield, UK: Equinox, 2021. May 7, 2-2021
Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr.
- New Books in Islamic Studies: Kristian Petersen interview with Carl W. Ernst, on Hallaj: Poems of a Sufi Martyr. Northwestern University Press, 2018. March 13, 2020
How to Read the Qur’an: A New Guide, with Select Translations
(University of North Carolina Press, 2011)
- Muqtedar Khan, Khanversations about the Qur’an, Ramadan 2021: Carl W. Ernst on How to Read the Qur’an. In this absorbing and fascinating Khanversation, Prof. Ernst talks about the ring structure of the Quran, the distinction between Meccan and Medinan Surahs, on the theory of abrogation in the Quran, on the need to widen and deepen the study of Tafsirs of the Quran and on intertextuality — the relations between the Quran and the Biblical heritage.
- New Books in Islamic Studies: Kristian Petersen interview with Carl Ernst on How to Read the Qur’an: A New Guide, with Select TranslationsUniversity of North Carolina Press, 2011)
- Frank Stasio, WUNC, “The State of Things,” Dec. 7, 2011, interview with Carl W. Ernst on How to Read the Qur’an