Professor
Theology Department
Telephone: 617-552-0571
Email: james.morris.4@bc.edu
Islam in Turkey, Iran, Morocco, Indonesia
Islamic Humanities (poetry and music) and Philosophy
Hadith
Kurds
Sufism
Sainthood (walaya) and Pilgrimage
Shiite thought
The Qur’an
Cinema in spiritual teaching
Dr. James Morris is Professor of Islamic Studies in the University's Theology department and Islamic Civilization and Societies program. He is a prolific author, having written dozens of journal articles along with thirteen books, including most recently, The Reflective Heart: Discovering Spiritual Intelligence in Ibn Arabī’s Meccan Illuminations’; Orientations: Islamic Thought in a World Civilization; and The Master and the Disciple: An Early Islamic Spiritual Dialogue. He has often interviewed on current issues for the Bòòò½Ö±²¥ and international journals and newspapers dealing with the Middle East.Â