Elements biographiques

 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Ph.D. June, 1981 The Study of Religion, special field Comparative Religion, with major in Islamic Studies, minor in Greek Philosophy. Dissertation adviser : Prof. Annemarie Schimmel.

 Stanford University, Stanford, California A.B. Hons., April, 1973 Humanities Special Programs with Concentration in Religious Studies.

Selection bibliographique

 How to Read the Qur’an, A New Guide, with Select Translations, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina Press, 2011
 Rethinking Islamic Studies, From Orientalism to Cosmopolitanism, ed. Carl W. Ernst and Richard C. Martin. University of South Carolina Press, 2010
 Following Muhammad, rethinking Islam in the contemporary world, University of North Carolina Press, 2003