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Faculty - David W. Damrel
Professor of Religious Studies
Ph.D., Duke Univesity
Arrived at ASU: 1994

Office: ECA 328
Phone: (480) 727-6112 or 965-7145
E-mail: dwdamrel@imap2.asu.edu
Research Interests
Islam and Islamic mysticism in South Asia, Central Asia and Iran. Recent research has focused on modern cross-cultural understandings of apocalyptic and millennial themes.
Biography
(Ph.D., Duke University) is an assistant professor in the History of Religions with a special interest in Islam and Islamic mysticism. He studied at the University of Texas at Austin Center for Middle Eastern Studies, studied for a year at the University of Isfahan in Iran, and was a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies before joining the faculty at ASU.
Courses Taught

REL 100 - Religions of the World

REL 194 - World Religions in Arizona

REL 194 - Religons of the World Honors Section

REL 194 - Religion, conflict and Transformation
REL 310 - Western Religious Traditions
REL 305 - Ritual, Symbol, Myth
REL 365 - Islamic Civilization
REL 366 - Islam in the Modern World
REL 394 - Islamic Mysticism

REL 394 - Islam in India

REL 394 - Popular Islam
REL 405 - Apocalypticism and Millennialism in World Religions

Selected Publications

“The Naqshbandi-Haqqani Order in North America,” in Islamic Mysticism in the Contemporary West. Edited by Jamal Malik and John J. Hinnells. Routledge Kegan Paul. Forthcoming.

“Muslim Spaces in South Asia,” in Sacred Places and Modern Landscapes: Sacred Geography and Social-Religious Transformations in South and Southeast Asia. Edited by Ronald Bull. Program for Southeast Asian Studies Monograph Series, Arizona State University. 2004.

"The Naqshbandi Order in Early Mughal India." In Pearls Beyond Measure: India, Islam, and the Legacy of K.A. Nizami. Edited by Bruce Lawrence and Rob Rozenhal. University of South Carolina Press, Forthcoming.

"The 'Naqshbandi Reaction' Reconsidered." In Beyond Turk and Hindu: Rethinking Religious Identities in Islamicate South Asia. Edited by David Gilmartin and Bruce Lawrence. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000.

"A Sufi Apocalypse." International Institute for the Study of Islam Newsletter Volume 4, 1999.

"The Religious Roots of Conflict: Russia and Chechnya." Religious Studies News, September 1995.

"Sufis, Miracles, and Conversion in 16th Century Central Asia." Journal of Central Asian Studies 5:1 (Fall, 1994) 1-10.

"The Spread of Naqshbandi Political Thought in the Islamic World." In Naqshbandis: Historical Development and Present Situation of a Muslim Mystical Order. Edited by Alexander Popovich, Thierry Zarcone and Marc Gaborieau. Istanbul and Paris: Editions Isis, 1991.