Core Faculty : People

Devin DeWeese

• Professor, Department of Central Eurasian Studies
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

Education

• Ph.D. at Indiana University, 1985

Research Interests

• Islamic Central Asia, Soviet Central Asia, Sufism, Islamization, religions and Inner Asia, and Islamic hagiography

Contact Information

Courses Recently Taught

• Islam in the Soviet Union and Successor States
• Religion and Power in Islamic Central Asia
• Islamic Hagiography of Central Asia

Publication Highlights

• "Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde: Baba Tükles and Conversion to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition." (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994 Series "Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions"), 638 pp.
• "Khojagani Origins and the Critique of Sufism: The Rehtoric of Communal Uniqueness in the Manaqib of Khoja 'Ali 'Azizan Ramitani," in Islamic Mysticism Contested: Thirteen Centuries of Controversies and Polemics, ed. Frederick De Jong and Bernd Radtke (Leiden: E.J. Brell, 1999) 492-519.
• "The Masha'ikh-i Turk and the Khojagan: Rethinking the Links between the Uasavi and Naqshbandi Sufi Traditions," Journal of Islamic Studies (Oxford), 7/2 (July 1996), 180-207.
• "The Tadhkira-i Bughra-khan and the "Uvaysi" Sufis of Central Asia: Notes in Review of Imaginary Muslims," Central Asiatic Journal, 40 (1996), 87-127.

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