Kenneth J. Garden 5 The Green Eaton Hall 313 Medford, MA 02155 ken.garden@tufts.edu (978) 302-9831 Current Position Associate Professor of Religion, Tufts University (at Tufts since fall 2008, Associate since fall 2014). Member of International Relations core faculty. Affiliated faculty in Middle Eastern Studies. Academic Positions Prior to Tufts Amherst College: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, 2007-08. Yale University: Lecturer, Department of Religion, fall 2006. Georgetown University: Postdoctoral Lecturer, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, 2005-06. University of Chicago: Lecturer, Teaching Assistant, Writing Tutor, Executive Director of the University of Chicago Summer Arabic Program, 1998-2000, and Assistant to the Director, summer 1997. Arabic Circle Coordinator, 1997-1998. Center for Arabic Studies Abroad: Assistant to the Director, summer 1996. Education University of Chicago, PhD, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, December 2005. Dissertation: Al-Ghazālī s Contested Revival: Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn and its Critics in Khurasan and the Maghrib. Wadad Kadi, dissertation supervisor. Center for Arabic Studies Abroad, American University in Cairo, 1995-96. University of Wisconsin-Madison, BA with Distinction Comparative Literature, 1991. Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität, Bonn, Germany, 1988-89. Research Interests: Life and thought of Abū Ḥāmid al-ghazālī; classical and contemporary Islamic revivalist thought; The role of al-ghazālī in the development of Sufism in the Islamic West, particularly on Muḥī al-dīn Ibn al-ʿarabī, Life and thought of Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿarabī; the medieval Maghrib and al-andalus; Trends in Contemporary Egyptian Islam. Monograph The First Islamic Reviver: Al-Ghazālī and his Revival of the Religious Sciences (Oxford: 2014). A re-framing of the life and thought of Abū Ḥāmid al-ghazālī, focusing on his writing and promotion of his seminal Revival of the Religious Sciences.
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles Coming Down from the Mountaintop: Al-Ghazālī s Autobiographies in Context, Muslim World Special Issue Celebrating the 900 th Anniversary of al-ghazālī, 101:4 (October, 2011), pp. 581-596. Al-Māzarī al-dhakī: Al-Ghazālī s Maghribi Adversary in Nishapur, Journal of Islamic Studies, 21:1 (2010), pp. 89-107. Peer-reviewed Journal Articles in Press "From Courtier to Religious Scholar: The riḥla and self-reinvention of Abū Bakr Ibn al- ʿArabī." Forthcoming, Journal of the American Oriental Society. Expected publication 2015. Peer-reviewed Book Chapters Revisiting al-ghazālī s Crisis through his Scale for Action (Mīzān al-ʿamal), Islam and Rationality: the Impact of al-ghazālī vol. I, George Tamar ed. (Brill: 2015), pp. 207-228. The Revival of the Religious Sciences in the Twenty-First Century: Suʿād al-ḥakīm s Adaptation al-ghazālī s Revival, Islam and Rationality: The Impact of al-ghazālī, vol. II, Frank Griffel ed. (Brill: 2015), pp. 310-331. Rhetorics of Revival: al-ghazālī and his Modern Heirs. The Heritage of Islamo-Arabic Learning: Studies Presented to Wadad Kadi, Maurice Pomerantz and Aram Shahin eds. (Brill: 2015), pp. 252-370. Encyclopedia Entries Abū Bakr al-ṭurṭūshī, entry in the I.B. Taurus Biographical Dictionary of Islamic Civilization, Forthcoming I.B. Taurus, October, 2015. Al-Ghazālī, entry in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Law. Forthcoming Oxford University Press. Muwaḥḥidūn, entry in the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, Oxford University Press, 2009, vol. 3, pp. 200-203. Book Reviews Al-Ghazālī s Philosophical Theology, by Frank Griffel, The Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 71:2 (October 2012), pp. 398-400. Al-Ghazālī and the Qur ān: One Book, Many Meanings, by Martin Whittingham, The Journal of the American Oriental Society, 130:1 (2010), 122-123. Islam: Historical, Social and Political Perspectives, by Jacques Waardenburg, The Journal of Religion, 84:3 (July 2004), pp. 499-500. ʿAlāqat Mamlakatay Qashtālah wa-arājūn bi-saltanat al-mamālīk, by Muhammad al- Nashshār, The Mamlūk Studies Review, 4 (2000), pp. 251-253. Kenneth Garden cv page 2
Online Resources Translating Muslim Voices: translatingmuslimvoices.wordpress.com A collection of videos of Egyptian religious authorities of different stripes (al-azhar, Muslim Brotherhood, Salafi, New Preachers. ) I have had subtitled in English, highlighting differences in doctrine, self-presentation and authorizing practices. Library Research Guide for the Koran and Hadith, the George Camp Keiser Library, Middle East Institute, http://www.mideasti.org/articles/doc395.pdf Invited Presentations Can One Man Stop Modernity: al-ghazālī and the Fate of Philosophy in Islam, Department of Classics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, November18, 2015. The Other Heirs of Antiquity: the Islamic World and the Classical Legacy, Department of Classics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, November18, 2015. The Nishapuri origins of Abū Bakr al-ṭurṭūshī s critique of al-ghazālī, Al-Andalus in Alexandria Conference, December 14-17, Alexandria Egypt. Travelling Controversy: Mālikī Networks and the Diffusion of Critiques of al-ghazālī s Revival of the Religious Sciences, presented to fellows of Sonderforschungsbereich 980: Epistime in Bewegung. Wissenstransfer von der alten Welt bis in die frühen Neuzeit, Berlin, November 24, 2014. Duncan Macdonald s Pioneering Study of al-ghazālī: Paths Not Taken, A Celebration of the 150 th Anniversary of the Birth of Duncan Black Macdonald, Hartford Theological Seminary, June 2, 2013. Video available at : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f17lbdo9wk Al-Ghazali in Contemporary Lebanon: Suʿād al-ḥakīm s Project of Rereading His Revival, al-ghazālī and his Influence: A Workshop on the Occasion of the 900 th Anniversary of his Death in 1111, Yale University, December 9-10, 2011. Al-Ghazālī s Ethics Before and After the Crisis, Islam and Rationality: the Impact of al- Ghazālī an International and Interdisciplinary Conference, Ohio State University, November 10-12, 2011. Al-Ghazālī the Reviver, Working Group on Islamic Philosophy, Yale University, 2007. Al-Ghazālī the Sufi or al-ghazālī the Reviver? 2005-06 Qatar Lecture, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, February 1, 2006. Critiques of al-ghazālī in the Mashriq and the Maghrib, University of Pennsylvania conference ʿIlm and Imāma: Knowledge and Politics in Classical Islam, March 28, 2003. Conference and Seminar Presentations Reassessing al-ghazālī s Autobiography, Högre seminariet i religionshistoria, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, October 6, 2015. Aims and Authorizing Strategies of Muhammad Abdūh s al-risāla fī al-tawḥid, Seeds of Revolution Symposium, Tufts University, April 8, 2011. Reassessing Abu Ḥāmid al-ghazālī s Biography and his Significance to the Islamic Tradition, Center for the Humanities at Tufts, October 19, 2010. Law as Liferaft: the riḥla of Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿarabī, 2010 annual meeting of the Middle Eastern Studies Association, San Diego, November 18-21. Kenneth Garden cv page 3
Revival through Reclassification: Abū Ḥāmid al-ghazālī s Revival of the Religious Sciences, Cambridge Symposium on Middle Eastern Studies: Knowledge and Language in Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge University October 16-18, 2009. Invocation of the Mujaddid Hadith in Islamic Thought, 2009 Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Albuquerque, March 13-16, 2009. Towards a New Narrative of the Life and Thought of Abū Ḥāmid al-ghazālī, 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religions, San Diego, November 17-20, 2007. The Controversy Over al-ghazālī's Return to Teaching in Nishapur 499/1106-503/1109, 2006 annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Boston, November 18-21, 2006. Al-Ghazālī s Four-Part Structure and the Underlying Logic of the Revival of the Religious Sciences, 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religions, San Antonio, November 20-23. The Relation between Saints and Political Authorities in the Islamic West in the 12 th Century, 1999 annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Chicago, November 2003. The Use of the Fatwā as a Source for Later Andalusian Social History, 33 rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 7-10, 1998. Translations Constitution of the Iraqi Teachers Union and other material translated from Arabic to English for the American Federation of Teachers, 2004. The Mamluk System of Rule in the Eyes of Western Travellers, Ulrich Haarmann, Mamluk Studies Review, vol. V, 2001, pp. 1-24 (German-English with Stefan Winter). Numerous articles translated from German and French to English for the Variorum series Formation of the Classical Islamic World. Technical German-English Translation for the Orlimex Translation Agency, Dresden, Germany, 1992. Service and Advising at Tufts Tufts AS&E Task Force on Work/Life Balance January 2015-present. Department of Classics: Search Committee Member for Mellon Bridge Position in Greco Arabic, fall 2014. Student Affairs Committee 2014-present. Ex-College 50 th Anniversary Planning Committee, 2013-present. Ex-College Board Chair, 2013-present. Ex-College Board, 2012-present. Advising to Incoming Freshman, 2012 2013, 2014. Subcommittee on Foreign Programs, 2009-present. Department of Religion: Search Committee member, 2009-10, Library liaison, 2009-10, 2012-13. Foreign Programs Subcommittee, 2009-present, including working group on Egypt exchange program. International Relations Student Honors Subcommittee 2010, 2013. Senior Honors Theses: Usamah Suhrawardi, Religion, 2012 (supervisor). Kenneth Garden cv page 4
Lauren Herstik, Peace and Justice Studies, 2010 (second reader). Stephanie Crosby, Anthropology, 2010 (second reader). Summer Scholars: Usamah Suhrawardi, 2011. Service to the Field Peer reviewer for Cambridge University Press. Peer reviewer for Yale University Press Content Editor, Penguin Books, 2010. Outside Reviewer for Comparative Islamic Studies Outside Reviewer for the Journal of the American Oriental Society Outside Reviewer for Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies Outside Reviewer for Journal of Religion Outside Reviewer for Journal of Near Eastern Studies Outside Reviewer for Journal of Religious History. Served on thesis committee for Ph.D. candidate Scott Girdner at Boston University, 2009. Presentations at Tufts Taste of Tufts (Held by the Ex-College): Al-Ghazālī (d. 1111): Can One Man Stop Modernity? April 5, 2013. Chaplain s Table: "The Egyptian Revolution's First Year: Developments in Religion & Politics" April 19, 2012. Arab Spring Panel: The Arab Spring One Year On, Sponsored by International Relations March 13, 2012. International Relations Core Forum Presentation: The Muslim Brotherhood, Salafis, al- Azhar, the New Preachers: the religious landscape of today's Egypt. February 2, 2102. Muslim Students Association, Spring Faculty Lecture Series, New Perspectives on the Life and Thought of al-ghazālī, April 14, 2010 Tufts Media Garden on Modernity, al-ghazali, Tufts Daily, April 8, 2013, http://www.tuftsdaily.com/features/taste-of-tufts-garden-on-islamic-modernity-alghazali-1.2821963#.uasliqsyzf9 (synopsis of Taste of Tufts Talk April 5, 2013) Tufts Daily Faculty Profile, April 7, 2012 video interview http://blogs.tuftsdaily.com/?p=4816 (video interview in series with Tufts faculty) Dispatch From Cairo, Tufts Now, December 6, 2011, http://now.tufts.edu/articles/dispatch- cairo?utm_source=tufts+now+-+faculty+and+staff&utm_campaign=764960cadb- Tufts_Now_internal_120711&utm_medium=email (Article I wrote about my experiences in post-revolutionary Cairo in the fall of 2011) Revival of the Fittest, interview on al-ghazālī in thetufts Today, April 15, 2009 http://tuftsjournal.tufts.edu/2009/04_2/features/04/ (interview about my work on Islamic revivalism) Other Public Speaking Presentation on Islam at the Crossing Church, Boston MA, February 26, 2015. Kenneth Garden cv page 5
Guest Lecturer, Harvard Extension School, course entitled Mysticism: East and West, lecture on Sufism, October 16, 2012. Fellowships Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service fellowship, academic year 2013-14. Center for Arabic Studies Abroad III Fellowship in Cairo, Egypt, fall 2011. Center for the Humanities at Tufts faculty fellowship academic year 2010-2011. Neubauer Fellow at Tufts University, Neubauer Fund for Faculty Excellence 2009-2010. Qatar Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, 2005-06. Stuart Tave Fellowship for Course Design, University of Chicago, fall 2002-03. American Institute for Maghrib Studies for study in Morocco, 2001-02. Fulbright IIE for study in Morocco, 2000-01. Program for Cultural Cooperation: Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture/United States Universities, funding for research in Spain, fall 1998. US Department of Education, Center for Arabic Studies Abroad fellowship, 1995-96. Century Fellowship for Graduate Study at the University of Chicago, 1994-1999. Scholarships for the University of Chicago s Summer Arabic Program, 1993, 1994. Courses Taught at Tufts Introduction to Islam Islam and Modernity Sufism Muhammad and the Qur ān Secularism Approaches to Middle East Studies Languages Arabic (Literary, Moroccan Colloquial, Egyptian Colloquial), Persian, German, Spanish, French, Swedish, Latin, some Danish. Kenneth Garden cv page 6