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Karim Gillani (Florida International University) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee. In conducting 3 months of research in Pakistan, Gillani "explores the religious hymns (Ginans) of the Shia Ismaili community."
Shehram Mokhtar (University of Oregon) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Islamabad and the Tharparker district of Sindh. Mokhtar's research centered around folkloric practices- music, dance, poetry, and storytelling of Pakistani rural culture.
In this episode of New Books in Islamic Studies, host SherAli Tareen sits down with Claire Pamment to discuss her book, "Comic Performance in Pakistan: The Bh?nd" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Pamment's book "centers on the Punjabi folk art of the Bh?nd, or comic performance. Pamment explores the...