CURRICULUM VITA
Kenneth L. Honerkamp
University of Georgia, Athens
Department of Religion
Peabody Hall
Athens, GA 30602-1625
Phone: 706-542-1727
E-mail: hnrkmp@uga.edu

DEGREES
Ph.D. University of Aix-en-Provence, France. June 28, 2000. Ibn Abbad of Ronda (d. 702-1389). Letters of a Fourteenth Century Moroccan Sufi of the Shâdhilî Order; Study, Analysis, and Critical Edition. Awarded with highest distinction.

MA Religion: Islamic Studies, minor in Judaism, June 1995, University of Georgia Athens; Thesis: The Principles of the Malîmatiyya, including the critical edition and translation of two treatises of Abû Abd al-Rahmân al-Sulamî (d. 1021): Spiritual Stations of the Righteous, and The Errors of the Sufis. Awarded with highest distinctions.

BA Arabic Literature, Al-Qarawiyine University, Faculty of Arabic Letters, 1981, Marrakech Morocco. (note one)

SUPPLEMENTARY EDUCATION
- Morocco: 1979-1995, Studies with traditionally trained teachers of traditional Islamic sciences, and research in various manuscript libraries in Marrakech, Rabat, and Fes. (note two)
- Pakistan: 1968-1979 Islamic Studies in Pakistan in the madrasas of the North West Frontier Province. (note three)
- Course work in Philosophy, California State College, Northridge, 1967.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Teaching Arabic as a second language, MSA, Classical, Moroccan dialect
- Islamic law and society from a holistic perspective
- Traditional Islamic education in the madrasa, Sufi orders and sacred sites
- Early Sufism in Khurasan
- Islam in North Africa, Moroccan history, Merinide Period
- Critical edition and translation of Islamic texts, letters from mentor to disciple

RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Proficiency oriented instruction in the Arabic class
- The complementary roles of Shariah and Sufism in Muslim society
- Teaching Islam in the classroom, at all levels following Islamic pedagogic models
- The social role and relevance of Islamic education in the Muslim world
- Quranic commentary and recitation

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
ARABIC
University of Georgia: Dept. of Religion, Aug. 28, 1999 until present. Modern Standard Arabic beginning through intermediate advanced levels (study with graduate students in advanced Islamic texts in Classical Arabic).
ARAB 1001, 1002, 2003, 3004, 3005, 3006
ARAB 4100, 6100 – Independent studies, advanced conversation skills
ARAB 4000 – Moroccan Dialectical Arabic
The Arabic Language Institute of Fes, Fes, Morocco: Sept. 1995 to Nov. 1999, Classical Arabic, Islamic Studies and curriculum preparation for NSEP sponsored project with St. Louis University.
University of Georgia: winter 1993 to spring 1995, Elementary and Intermediate Classical Arabic.
Al-Qarawiyine University Faculty of Arabic Letters, Marrakech, Morocco: 1986 to November 1993, Arabic and English Translation.
American Language Center Rabat, Morocco, 1982 – 1986, Elementary Classical and Dialectical Moroccan Arabic.
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
RELI 1001 - Introduction to Judaism, Christianity and Islam (multiple times)
RELI 7300 - Directed thesis research
RELI 8700 - Directed research projects with graduate students
ISLAM AND THE MIDDLE EAST
RELI 4305/6305 - Muhammad: His Life and Legacy
RELI 4304/6304 – The Koran, The Sacred Text of Islam
RELI 4310/6310 - Islam and Islamic Culture in Morocco
HONS 1990 – Introduction to Essential Islamic Spirituality
FRES 1010 – The Koran, Textual History and Major Themes
RELI 7000- Guided readings in Islamic texts
RELI 4301/6301 - Islamic Thought in the Caliphal Age
RELI 4300/6300 - The Sufi Way
ENGLISH
English as a Foreign Language, American Language Center, Marrakech, Morocco, Fall, 1988-Fall 1993.
English/Arabic Translation, al-Qarawiyine University, Faculty of Arabic Letters, Marrakech, Morocco. 1987-1993.
EFL, American Language Center, Rabat, Morocco, 1981-1988.

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
- Program Director, UGA Maymester to Morocco Program, 2001-2004
- Director of Arabic Studies at ASMM (Arabic Studies in Marrakesh, Morocco) an affiliate of the American Language Center in Marrakesh, Morocco from Nov. 1998 to June 1999
- On-Site-Coordinator from Sept. 1995, until Nov. 1998 for:
- Washington University/ALIF Intensive Arabic and Islamic Studies Semester Abroad Program
- Florida University Summer Arabic Program
- Fulbright Scholars Introduction to Morocco Program
- National Council on US-Arab Relations Summer Abroad Program in Fes (note four)
- Director of Academic Affairs at ALIF, Sept 1995 to November 1999

PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
1) Three Early Sufi Texts (I have translated and annotated two of the three texts in this edition, to which I included a lengthy introduction on the Malamatiyya of Nishpur. The remaining text is by Nicholas Heer.) Fons Vitae, St. Louis, August, 2003.
2) The Greater Collection of Letters of Ibn Abbad (d.1390): Critical Edition and Analysis is forthcoming in 2005. Dar el-Machreq the publisher of the Letters is the oldest and most prestigious publishing house in the Arab world. The series RECHERCHES, in which the Letters will appear is a branch of the Institue de Lettres Orientales de Beyrouth, this institute has close ties with the French Institut d’Etudes de l’Islam et des Sociétés Musulman.
3) Spiritual Alchemy: Letters from Master and Disciple — The Major Collection of the Letters of Ibn Abbad of Ronda (1332-1390) (Rasa'il al-Kubrá). Under contract with Fons Vitae Publishers, St. Louis.
4) Seven Unedited Texts by Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami, accepted for publication in Majmu’ah-I-athar-e Sulami, Tehran University Press, Tehran, Iran.

ARTICLES
1) "Ibn Abbad Un Modèle Exemplaire de la Voie al-Shadhilite" in La Shâdhiliyya -- Une voie soufie dans le monde, ed. E. Geoffroy, Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose, Fall 2004.
2) "An Unpublished Biography of Abu al-Hasan al-Shâdhilî (1258)" Study and introduction to a 14th century treatise on an unedited work by Abd el-Nur al-Imrani of Fes Morocco (d.1287) in La Shâdhiliyya -- Une voie soufie dans le monde, ed. E. Geoffroy, Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose, Fall 2004.
3) Adab majalisat al-mashayikh wa hifz huramatihim, Critical edition of an unedited text by Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami, in the Journal Ma’aref , vol. 20 number 2 (Murdad-Aban 1382), series number 59, pp. 149-168, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran, May 2004.
4) ABÛ 'ABD AL-RAHMAN AL-SULAMI (D. 412/1201) on Sama', Ecstasy and Dance in the Journal of the History of Sufism, 4 (2003), 1-13.
5) "Sufi Itinerary of Tenth Century Nishapur," The Journal of Islamic Studies, Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (submitted)
6)"An Example of Sufi Pedagogy: The Letters of Ibn Abbad," Muslim World (submitted).
7) Manâqib Abî al-Hasan al-Shadhili (1258) Critical edition in Arabic of a 14th century treatise on Sufism from a previously unpublished work by Abd el-Nur al-Imrani of Fes Morocco (d. 1287), submitted to al-Qantara in Madrid, Spain.

REVIEWS AND OTHER PUBLISHED WRITINGS
1) Preface for a new publication by Fons Vitae entitled: Turning Towards the Heart, Awakening to the Sufi Way, 2002 (came out to be 7 pages).
2) Book review for the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Crescents on the Cross: Islamic Visions of Christianity, by Lloyd V. J. Ridgeon. Oxford University Press, 2001.
3) Book review for the International Journal of Comparative Religion and Philosophy. Radical Islamic Fundamentalism, by Ahmad S. Moussali. 1997.
4) Book review for Journal of Islamic Studies at Oxford. From Arab Poet to Muslim Saint: Ibn al-Farid, His Verse, and His Shrine, Th. Emil Homerin, The American University in Cairo Press, 2001.

WORK IN PROGRESS
1) Book: A critical edition from the Arabic of the Friday Sermons of Ibn Abbad from a rare one of a kind manuscript discovered during my research in Morocco. I intend to do a comparative study of these sermons and the modern "politicized" sermon that has become more common today on Fridays in the Islamic World. I plan on an article contrasting a sermon of Ibn Abbad from the 14th century with a sermon of Bin Laden, should be interesting.
2) Book: A critical edition from the Arabic of the short Sermons of Ibn Abbad for Auspicious Occasions, 13 sermons for the most important Muslim holidays from the 14th century.
3) Book: The Path of Blame, based upon the translation and study of the Risalat al-malamatiyya by Abu Abd al Rahman al-Sulami (d. 1021). Accepted by Forts Vitae. This volume will be one in a number in a new series by Fons Vitae on the works of Sulami.
4) Article: "A Treatise on Sufi Etiquette from Tenth Century Nishapur."
5) Article: "Ibn Abbad and the Fuqaha', unpublished accounts"
6) Article: "Teaching Islam through its institutions." Presented at AAR Regional meeting 2003
7) Article: "Al-Yusi, Abu al-Hassan b. Masud," for Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume on Arabic Literary Culture 1350-1830.

INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES (selected)
1) Invited to lecture: Indonesian and U.S. Perspectives on Faith, Democracy and Education, State Department Program with Legacy International and 40 students from various Islamic schools from Indonesian, at Randolph Macon Women's College, Lynchburg, VA, July 10, 2004.
2) Invited to participate in "The Shakir World Encounters" in Marrakesh, Morocco, September 9-12, 2004. Sponsored by Ministry of Waqfs and Islamic Affairs, Kingdom of Morocco under the auspices of His Majesty, Muhammad VI. An international conference dedicated to active dialog between Sufi orders involved in the fields of spiritual and moral education.
3) Invited to give two lectures at an international conference in Alexandria, Egypt. The Sufi Path of the Shadhiliyya: A Spiritual School of the Islamic World sponsored by Centre d’Etudes Alexandrines and UNESCO. Conference date: Apr. 19-24, 2003.
4) Invited to give a paper at an international conference in Fes, Morocco. Formative Sufism in North Africa sponsored by Fes Sais in Fes, Morocco. Time did not allow me to attend.
5) Invited as a panelist for the International Symposium 2003 at UGA: Globalization and Change in Central Asia.
6) I provided the manuscripts from the Escorial Manuscript Library and consultation in the publication of : Kitab fatah al-tuhfa wa idaa’t al-sudfa (The Opening of the Treasure and the Illumination of the Darkness) by Ibn Abbad, edited by Abd al-Allah Amaaki and Abd al-Rahman Bilahsan in Morocco, 2002).
7) I am participating in the restoration of the tomb complex of Ibn Abbad in Fes, Morocco with a group of Moroccan scholars and the Moroccan government.
8) Conference hosted by the journal al-Murid in Rabat, Morocco, on Intuitive Spiritual Knowledge in the Islamic Heritage and Comparative Thought; lecture presented entitled: The Malamatiyya and The Path of Intuitive Knowledge; November 24-25, 1995.
9) Conference hosted by the journal al-Murid in Casablanca, Morocco, on Sufism and the Attractiveness of Islam; lecture presented entitled Sufism and Islamic Inner Attitudes; April 11-12, 1997.
10) Conference hosted by Widadiyat al-Jazouli in Marrakesh, Morocco on The Intellectual and Spiritual Heritage of Ibn Arabi, lecture presented entitled, Ibn Arabi and The Malamatiyya; May 6 -11, 1997.
11) Round table discussion (in Arabic) hosted by USIS, Islamic Studies in the USA, Rabat and Casablanca, Morocco; March 22 & 23, 1998.
12) Rihlah Program of Traditional Education in Fes, Sponsored by Moroccan Ministry of Religious Endowments, lecture presented entitled, The Essential Elements of Islamic Education; August 28,1998.
13) Invited lecture to the University of Aix-en-Provence, France, June, 2000 "Moroccan Sufism in the 14th. & 15th. Centuries"

FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICENCY
- Arabic: Classical/Modern Standard/Colloquial Moroccan: fluent
- Pashtu: fluent.
- French: fluent.
- Spanish: reading knowledge.

AWARDS AND GRANTS
1) U.S Speaker and Specialist Grant, awarded by the U.S. State Department, to undertake a program in Cameroon, Chad and Guinea to discuss Islamic Studies in the USA, March, 2001.
2) U.S Speaker and Specialist Grant, awarded by the U.S. State Department, to undertake a program in Malawi, Senegal and Mauritania : Islam in America: Social, Political and Spiritual Realities. March, 2004.
3) Subvention from the University of Georgia for publication of: The Greater Collection of Letters of Ibn Abbad (d.1390): Critical Edition and Analysis
4) Teaching Award from the Student Government Association of the University of Georgia, for an educator who has changed his student’s lives. Feb. 2003.
5) Teaching Assistant Award from UGA Athens, Spring 1995.
6) U.S Speaker and Specialist Grant, offered by the U.S. State Department, to undertake a program in Islam and Democracy in the Phillipines, July, 2004. (Professional considerations did not allow me to accept.)
7) U.S Speaker and Specialist Grant, offered by the U.S. State Department, to undertake a program in conflict resolution in Northern Chad on the border with Darfur, Sudan. October, 2004. (Professional considerations did not allow me to accept.)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- Member of the UGA Center for Asian Studies (Steering committee)
- Member of the Linguistics Faculty
- Member of the Program of African Studies Faculty
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
- Member of steering committee of Islamic Research Association (ISRA)
- Member of the board of Virtual Center for the Interdisciplinary Studies of the Islamic World (VCISIW)
- Member of AAR, MESA and AATA

INVITED LECTURES (selected)
1) Lecture: Islamic Spirituality and the Process of Transformation. Islamic awareness week, sponsored by the University of Washington, St. Louis, Dept of Middle Eastern Studies. Nov. 17 and 18, 1999
2) Lecture: Ibn Abbad and the Birthday of the Prophet, Third Annual ISRA conference, USC campus, Columbia, SC. June 24 –25, 2000
3) Lecture: The Principles of the Malamatiyya: Study, Critical Edition, and Translation of Two texts by Abu Abd al-Ra¾man al-Sulam. Annual meeting of the AAR in Nashville, Tennessee, Nov. 18, 2000.
4) Lecture: A Sufi Itinerary of Tenth Century Nishapur, ISRA conference, USC campus, Columbia, SC. December, 21, 2001.
5) Lecture: Madrasas, Fertile Ground for Fundamentalism? Panel Discussion: Rival Islams/Rival Islam: The Roots, Context and Aftermath of September 11. SECOR. Atlanta, March 8th 2003
6) Lecture SECSOR, March 2003, on Islamic Education: "Sacred Space: Where Form and Substance meet, Tomb Complexes in the Islamic World." Asked to submit paper to the Wabash Journal of Education.
7) Multiple Lectures and participation in panel discussions in the aftermath of the September 11th tragedy, on campus and in collaboration with the University Outreach Program.

NOTES FOR CV KENNETH L. HONERKAMP

Note 1. The Faculty of the Arabic Language, Marrakech, is part of the traditional education system of Morocco - where the traditional Islamic sciences are taught by the foremost scholars in their respective fields. At the Faculty of the Arabic Language, the Holy Quran, hadith, fiqh, etc. are taught with an emphasis upon language and rhetoric. My studies in Pakistan helped me complete their three-year intensive BA program in Arabic Literature, with distinction. The course is for native speakers of Arabic, as Morocco has no system of studies for non-native speakers, I believe that until today I am the only American to have graduated from this University. I graduated in 1981 with a diploma in Arabic Literature having written a paper entitled "Critical Edition of al-Munabbiha" a treatise by Abu Amar al-Dani on the science of Quranic recitation. I edited the first 200 lines of rhymed verse from the two known manuscripts in Morocco: the Rabat Manuscript and the Tamagrout Zawiyah Nasarriyah Manuscript. During the editing I also found and acquired a copy of an authoritative Andalusian manuscript from the Library of Alexandria. Return to Vita

Note 2. After graduating from the Al-Quarawiyine, I began personal research and study in the domains of Islamic studies and Sufism in North Africa. I visited libraries and began to accumulate a basic research library on the sources of traditional Islamic education. I collected and read the essential reference works on early Sufism by al-Muhasibi, al-Ghazali, Hakim al-Tirmidhi and the treatises of al-Sulami. During this period I found several unknown works of al-Sulami that I have subsequently edited. It was during this period that I collected multiple manuscripts of the Major Collection of the Letters of Ibn Abbad of Ronda. My interest in Ibn Abbad and the early mentors of the Shadhili Sufi Order in Morocco led me to eventually edit these letters and other collections of letters from Shaykh to disciple within the Shadhliy tradition. In a recent conference in Alexandria I presented an unedited text entitled: Manaqib Imam Shadhili that I encountered in the Qarawiyne Library in Fes. This text has added substantially to our knowledge of the early teachings of the order before it moved east, to Egypt. I am also working on the final correction of the Letters of Sidi Mohammed Attar of Fes (d. 1922). Return to Vita

Note 3. In Pakistan I began Arabic and Islamic studies in various traditional madrasas and studied under some of the better known scholars of the Northwest Frontier Province, including Mulana Mohammed Tahir of Panj Pir, Mulana Shah Zadah Sahib at Sarkay and Mulana Abdel Haq in Swat state. During these years I acquired a fluent knowledge of Pashtu both the spoken and written forms; Pashtu was the vehicle of instruction from the Arabic texts that we used. I also began to study Persian with the books of Shaykh Saadi.
Among my fields of study in Pakistan were:
- The Holy Quran - from the perfecting of its recitation to its commentary, which was a regular part of the curriculum at all the madrasas.
- the elementary works of Arabic grammar form Hidayatu al-nahwa to Al-Kafiyah of Ibn Haajab.
- the elementary works of Arabic conjugation :
Serf-i-mir in Persian (memorized)
Zanjqni, Allama Tafta-Zani
- the basic works of logic mantiq
- the works of jurisprudence of the School of Abu-Hanifah from elementary works from Muniah until Al-Hidayah, on the diverse opinions within the School itself.
- I have subsequently studied the Maliki School in Morocco as well.
All of the above were usually on a direct teacher to student relationship, each student either in a different book or at a different stage in his studies. Diplomas were not given as a student's grasp of subject matter was considered to speak for itself. Return to Vita

Note 4. I was On-Site-Coordinator at ALIF, for the Washington University St. Louis/ALIF Intensive Arabic and Islamic Studies Program from the inception of the program. Due to my experience in both western academia and traditional Islamic studies I was asked to frame the course itself and coordinate the creation of the course material. This six month program gave 8 American graduate students an intensive review of Arabic grammar and syntax as well as an overview of fundamental Islamic precepts viewed from their Quranic, Hadith and finally Fiqh and Kalam sources. The course also included an ongoing cultural component in which the participants are exposed to what makes up social and intellectual life in the modern Arab/Moroccan world. I was also responsible for this aspect of the program. The US government saw the program to be important enough to give us funding for a second two-year period. The American program coordinator was Dr. Peter Heath of Washington University, St. Louis, and the evaluators have been Dr. Everett Rowson of Penn State and Dr. Mahmoud al-Batal of Emory University. Return to Vita

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