James W. Morris

Prof. James W. Morris has taught Islamic and religious studies at the Universities of Exeter, Princeton, Oberlin, and the Sorbonne.  He lectures and leads workshops in many countries on Islamic philosophy and theology, Sufism, the Islamic humanities, the Qur’an, and Shiite thought. He is currently Professor of Islamic Studies at Boston College.

Prof. Morris contributed the essay “The Ascension of the Word: Rhetoric and Reader Engagement in Rūmī’s Mathnawī” to the volume The Philosophy of Ecstasy: Rumi and the Sufi Tradition.

Prof. Morris’s recent books include Ostad Elahi’s Knowing the Spirit (2007); The Reflective Heart: Discovering Spiritual Intelligence in Ibn ‘Arabi’s ‘Meccan Illuminations’ (2005); and Orientations: Islamic Thought in a World Civilisation (2004).