Author

Books by Bruce Lawrence

Bruce Lawrence is Professor Emeritus of Islamic Studies at Duke University, where he taught for more than four decades. He is a specialist in the history of Islam, Sufism, and Islamic responses to modernity, and the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt Against the Modern Age and The Koran in English: A Biography. He has been recognized for making rigorous Islamic scholarship accessible to general audiences without sacrificing precision. His career spans both close textual analysis and broad historical synthesis.