Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
At the second Wednesdays at the Center, Spring 2022, at Duke University, Bruce B. Lawrence presented his latest book, "Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit."
Neither juridical nor creedal, the book expresses a desire for the just and the beautiful. The author sets out an original and fascinating theory, that Islamicate cosmopolitanism marks a new turn in global history. An unceasing, self-critical pursuit of truth, hitched to both beauty and justice, its history is marked by male elites who were scientific exemplars in the pre-modern period.
The talk was moderated by Robert Rozehnal, Duke Alum and Professor of Islamic Studies and South Asian Religions at Lehigh University.
Bruce Lawrence is Emeritus Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University, where he taught for four decades. He holds a PhD in History of Religions from Yale University and has been awarded honorary ThDs from both Virginia Theological Seminary and Episcopal Divinity School. Professor Lawrence specializes in the Comparative Study of Religious Movements; Institutional Islam, especially in Asia; Indo-Persian Sufism; the Religious Masks of Violence; Contemporary Islam as Abrahamic Faith and Religious Ideology.
Wednesdays at the Center is a series organized by the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke and the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies.
Learn more about the series:
https://igs.duke.edu/series/wednesdays-center-series
At the second Wednesdays at the Center, Spring 2022, at Duke University, Bruce B. Lawrence presented his latest book, "Islamicate Cosmopolitan Spirit."
Neither juridical nor creedal, the book expresses a desire for the just and the beautiful. The author sets out an original and fascinating theory, that Islamicate cosmopolitanism marks a new turn in global history. An unceasing, self-critical pursuit of truth, hitched to both beauty and justice, its history is marked by male elites who were scientific exemplars in the pre-modern period.
The talk was moderated by Robert Rozehnal, Duke Alum and Professor of Islamic Studies and South Asian Religions at Lehigh University.
Bruce Lawrence is Emeritus Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University, where he taught for four decades. He holds a PhD in History of Religions from Yale University and has been awarded honorary ThDs from both Virginia Theological Seminary and Episcopal Divinity School. Professor Lawrence specializes in the Comparative Study of Religious Movements; Institutional Islam, especially in Asia; Indo-Persian Sufism; the Religious Masks of Violence; Contemporary Islam as Abrahamic Faith and Religious Ideology.
Wednesdays at the Center is a series organized by the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke and the Duke University Center for International and Global Studies.
Learn more about the series:
https://igs.duke.edu/series/wednesdays-center-series
