The University of Winnipeg

Dr. Rory Dickson

Rory DicksonTitle:Associate Professor; Chair
Phone:204-786-9202
Office:4M32
Email:w.dickson@uwinnipeg.ca

Biography:

Dr. Dickson completed a Joint-PhD in Religious Studies (2012) at Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo, with a specialization in Islamic Studies. As a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow (2010-2011) Dickson attended the University of Toronto and the University of Copenhagen’s Graduate Research School in Damascus, Syria. His research focuses on contemporary Islam in general, and on Islamic spirituality (Sufism) in particular. His first bookLiving Sufism in North America: Between Tradition and Transformation（纽约州立大学出版社，2015年）探讨了北美的苏菲领导人如何了解伊斯兰，权威和性别。他与Meena Sharify-Funk合着了Sufism的介绍，Unveiling Sufism: From Manhattan to Mecca(Equinox, 2017), and a study of contemporary Sufism with Meena Sharify-Funk and Merin Shobhana Xavier,Contemporary Sufism: Piety, Politics, and Popular Culture(出版社,2018)。

Courses:

  • Classical Islam (REL-2710)
  • Contemporary Islam (REL-2711)
  • Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Societies (REL-2714)
  • Issues in the Interpretation of the Qur'an (REL-3/4701)
  • Islamic Law (REL 3/4703)
  • Sufism: Islamic Spirituality and Philosophy (REL 3/4702)

Publications:

Sufism in North America: Between Tradition and Transformation。Albany: State University of New York Press(2015).

Unveiling Sufism: From Manhattan to Mecca.与Meena Sharify-Funk. Sheffield: Equinox (2017).

Contemporary Sufism: Piety, Politics, and Popular Culture.New York: Routledge (2018).

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters:

(2020). “The Golden Sufi Center: A Non-Islamic Branch of the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya.” InVarieties of American Sufism。Edited by Elliott Bazzano and Marcia Hermansen. Albany: State University of New York Press.

(2019). “Disordering and Reordering Sufism: North American Sufi Teachers and theTariqaModel.” Co-authored with Merin Shobhana Xavier. InGlobal Sufism: Boundaries, Structures, and Politics。由Mark Sedgwick和Francesco Piraino编辑。伦敦：赫斯特出版商。

(2015).“Négociation du sacré à Philadelphie: soufismes concurrents au sanctuaire de Bawa Muhaiyaddeen.” Co-authored with Merin Shobhana Xavier.Social Compass62(4): 584-597.

(2014). “An American Sufism: The Naqshbandi-Haqqani Order as a Public Religion.” Studies in Religion 43(3): 411-424.

(2014). “Traces of Panentheism in Islam: Ibn al-‘Arabi and the Kaleidoscope of Being.” InPanentheism Across the World’s Religious Traditions.与Meena Sharify-Funk. Edited by Loriliai Biernacki and Philip Clayton, 142-160. New York: Oxford University Press.

(2010). “Religion as Phantasmagoria: Islam in Sam Harris’sThe End of Faith。” InReligion and the New Atheism: A Critical Appraisal。Edited by Amarnath Amarasingam, 37-54. Leiden: Brill.

(2009). “TheTablighi Jama‘atin Southwestern Ontario: Making Muslim Identities and Communities in Canadian Urban Spaces.”Journal of Contemporary Islam2(3): 99-112.

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