Background
Vincent Joseph Cornell was born on September 25, 1951, in Detroit, Michigan, United States. He is the son of Marvin Joseph and Eleanor Mary (Toth) Cornell.
1974
Berkeley, CA, United States
Vincent Joseph Cornell studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree with highest honors in 1974.
1989
Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States
Later Cornell got a Doctor of Philosophy Degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, the United States in 1989.
(Despite frequent and extensive publications on Islam, ver...)
Despite frequent and extensive publications on Islam, very few Americans, indeed very few non-Muslims, truly understand the faith of the more than one billion adherents who live it. This set presents the diversity and richness of Islam, filling in the blanks and expanding our knowledge and understanding.
https://www.amazon.com/Voices-Islam-volumes-Praeger-Perspectives/dp/0275987329/?tag=2022091-20
1981
(This is the first English translation of works attributed...)
This is the first English translation of works attributed to Abu Madyan, a seminal figure of Sufism in Muslim Spain and North Africa. The Arabic text accompanying the English translation also represents the first scholarly edition of these works in the original language.
https://www.amazon.com/Way-Abu-Madyan-Islamic-Society/dp/0946621357/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(This book presents a systematic history of Moroccan Sufis...)
This book presents a systematic history of Moroccan Sufism through the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries C.E. and a comprehensive study of Moroccan Sufi doctrine, focusing on the concept of sainthood.
https://www.amazon.com/Realm-Saint-Authority-Moroccan-Sufism/dp/0292712103/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(The present volume explores the contours of pressures, ch...)
The present volume explores the contours of pressures, changes, and transformations, and reflects on how all our religions are changing under the common pressures of recent decades. By identifying commonalities across religions as they respond to these pressures, it suggests how religious traditions might cope with these changes and how they might join forces in doing so.
https://www.amazon.com/Crisis-Holy-Transformations-Interreligious-Reflections/dp/1498503438/?tag=2022091-20
2014
Vincent Joseph Cornell was born on September 25, 1951, in Detroit, Michigan, United States. He is the son of Marvin Joseph and Eleanor Mary (Toth) Cornell.
Vincent Joseph Cornell studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree with highest honors in 1974. Later he got a Doctor of Philosophy Degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, United States in 1989.
Vincent Joseph Cornell worked as a vice president for the Islamic Center of South Bay, Lomita, California, the United States in 1987-88. Later in 1989-1990, he was an adviser on Islam in the Office of the State Attorney, Cook County, Illinois. He also worked as an assistant professor of religion at the University of Georgia (1990-91), at the Duke University in Durham, North Carolina (1991-1998) and associate professor of religion (1998-2000). In 2000 he became a director of the King Fahd Middle East Studies Program at the William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas. He also was an Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Religion, (1993-1994) and a visiting professor at Northwestern University in 1989-1990.
Vincent J. Cornell is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of the Middle East and Islamic Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. His dissertation won the 1990 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in the Humanities of the Middle East Studies Association. His published works include "The Way of Abū Madyan," (The Islamic Texts Society, 1996), "Realm of the Saint: Power and Authority in Moroccan Sufism," (University of Texas Press, 1998), the five-volume set "Voices of Islam," (Praeger Publishers, 2007), and "Do Jews, Christians, and Muslims Worship the Same God?" (with Baruch Levine, Jacob Neusner, and Bruce Chilton, Abingdon Press, 2012). Since 2016 he has served as editor-in-chief of the "Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies," published by Indiana University Press. His academic interests cover the entire spectrum of Islamic thought from Sufism to theology and Islamic law. He is currently finishing "The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Islamic Spirituality" with Bruce Lawrence of Duke University. His other current book projects include "Islam and Democracy: A Critical Analysis" and "The Shared Revelation: Ibn Sab‘in and Islamic Hermetism."
Since September 2001 he has turned towards the projects of studying genealogies of Islamic modernist reform and Islamic extremism and developing Islamic theology and Islamic moral philosophy for the 21st century. He has a professional interest in the Islamic social and intellectual history, the comparative study of sanctity and sainthood, Sufism, Islamic law and Islamic legal methodology, Islamic ethics and critical theory. He is also committed to major projects in the fields of interfaith relations and comparative theology.
(Despite frequent and extensive publications on Islam, ver...)
1981(The present volume explores the contours of pressures, ch...)
2014(This is the first English translation of works attributed...)
1996(This book presents a systematic history of Moroccan Sufis...)
1996Vincent Cornell described himself as a "critical traditionalist." He thinks, that modern-day Islamic practices are superficial and removed from the traditions of religion. In his opinion, sacred texts should be interpreted in terms of the context, and the idea, that nowadays due to globalization Muslims cannot be isolated from the reflexity. Cornell is critical of the spread of Wahhabism - a phenomenon he attributes to a "corporate" form of organized Islam fueled by petrodollars. But on the other hand, he cautions against a simplistic view that "demonizes" the role played by the Saudi monarchy, which he sees as compelled to promote Wahhabism.
Vincent Joseph Cornell is a member of the Middle East Studies Association of America, American Academy of Religion, Maghrib Studies Association, American Oriental Society.
Vincent J. Cornell married Rkia Elaroui Cornell (a professor of Pedagogy and Language Coordinator in Arabic) on August 15, 1976. They have one child Sakina al-Moujahid Cornell.