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For Immediate Release

Written by: Laurel Alberson, 260-481-6166

Media contact: Erik Ohlander, 260-481-0504

IPFW Faculty Member Receives Prestigious National Endowment for theHumanities Stipend

(Fort Wayne, March 20, 2008) -- Indiana University—Purdue University Fort Wayne's (IPFW) Erik Ohlander is on his way to a summer of research and travel. The assistant professor of religious studies recently received a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to research his second book, Sufis of Mecca: Mysticism and Transregionality in the Later Medieval Islamic World. The $6,000 stipend is in addition to a recent Purdue University Library Scholars Grant.

Ohlander's research will focus on issues pertaining to the city of Mecca as a nodal center in the formation of Sufi networks in the Islamic world during the later medieval period. His first book, Sufism in an Age of Transition: 'Umar al-Suhrawardī and the Rise of the Islamic Mystical Brotherhoods, was released Feb. 15.

NEH Summer Stipends support faculty or staff members of colleges, universities, primary or secondary schools, and independent scholars or writers. The stipends allow them to pursue advanced research that contributes to scholarly knowledge or a greater understanding of the humanities.

For a downloadable photo of Ohlander, visit www.ipfw.edu/news/resources/downloads. For more information, contact Erik Ohlander, associate professor of religious studies in the philosophy department, at 260-481-0504 or ohlandee@ipfw.edu.

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