# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-w-ernst
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:57:13.016Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-w-ernst"
name: "Carl W. Ernst"
slug: "carl-w-ernst"
description: "Carl W. Ernst is the William R. Kenan Jr., Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Islamic studies at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was also the founding director (2003–2022) of the UNC Center for Islamic and Middle East Studies."
tagline: "Islamic scholar"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carl_William_Ernst.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1950-09-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             1.003584229390681
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump