He did his Ph.D in religion at Harvard in 1993. The title of his thesis was "Charisma and Examplar: Naqshbandi Spiritual Authority in the Punjab ( 1857-1947 ). Dr. Buehler is also author of Sufi Heirs of the Prophet: The Indian Naqshbandiyya and the Rise of the Mediating Sufi Shaykh. In this book, he looks specifically at the role of Jama'at Ali Shah (d. 1951) to explain current Naqshbandi practices. For more information about this book go to the University of South Carolina Press homepage at: http://www.scarolina.edu/uscpress/3201.html