Erik Ohlander

Short Biography

Erik S. Ohlander is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Religious Studies Program at Indiana University–Purdue University, Fort Wayne. An historian of religion and specialist in Islamic studies, he has written widely in the areas of Islamic mysticism, Qur’anic studies, and Islamic intellectual history and religious movements. In addition to a recent article on the Qur’an in the Journal of Semitic Studies and a survey article on ‘Qur’anic Studies’ forthcoming in Trends in Medieval Studies (Walter de Gruyter), he has also contributed numerous articles to the much anticipated third edition of Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam, the Encyclopaedia Iranica, and other scholarly reference works. He is also author of Sufism in an Age of Transition: ‘Umar al-Suhrawardi and the Rise of the Islamic Mystical Brotherhoods (Brill, 2008) and other articles, book chapters, and reviews. He holds a BA, summa cum laude, in Middle Eastern and Religious studies from the University of Minnesota, and an MA and PhD in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.