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#PeerTalks with Professor Alexander Knysh on "Internal Peace versus Being in Society: Sufi Dilemmas"  

Alexander Knysh is a Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Michigan and Academic Director of an Islamic studies program sponsored by the St. Petersburg State University, Russia. 

His academic interests include Islamic mysticism (Sufism), Quranic studies, the history of Muslim theological, philosophical, and juridical thought, and modern Islamic/Islamist movements in a comparative perspective. 

He has numerous academic and instructional publications on these subjects, including twelve books. 

His most recent books in English are Islam in Historical Perspective (London and New York: Taylor and Francis, Routledge, 2017) and Sufism: A New History of Islamic Mysticism (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017). Alexander Knysh currently serves as section editor for “Sufism” on the Editorial Board of the Encyclopedia of Islam, Third Edition (E.J. Brill, Leiden, and Boston) and is Executive Editor of the Encyclopedia of Islamic Mysticism and the Handbooks of Islamic Mysticism series associated with it.  

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