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Yasmin Saikia was a 2015-2016 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad for 14 weeks. Saikia was able to "examine and document the historical and processual development of azadi (freedom) ideas of Illahi, Sindhi, and Shedai that are of particular relevance in understanding the...
Muntazir Ali was a 2020 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Peshawar and Chitral in the summer and fall of 2021. Ali's work created "a crucial initial glimpse into the rich and complex meanings of place, the various modes of place-making, and how place has been invested...
Waqas H. Butt was a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore for 5 months. Butt's research "will contribute to the field of Pakistani studies by demonstrating the intricate relationship between the colonial and post-colonial periods as well as the historical significance that subaltern...
SherAli Tareen delivers a lecture for the Hast o Neest Institute for Traditional Studies and Arts. The lecture, "Colonialism & Disagreements of Fiqh in Sunni Ulema" is part of the Peoples, Cultures, and Languages lecture series.
Neelum Sohail was a 2017-18 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the United Kingdom and Pakistan for two months. Sohail "aims to provide a new perspective on histories of, and debates around, citizenship, race, gender, and labor in Pakistan Studies through a multidisciplinary and multi-locational...
In this episode of the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast, host SherAli Tareen speaks with Venkat Dhulipala to discuss his book, "Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India" (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Tareen writes, "Through a...
In this episode of the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast, host Asad Dandia talks with Simon Wolfgang Fuchs about his book, "In a Pure Muslim Land: Shi'ism between Pakistan and the Middle East" (University of North Carolina Press, 2019). In his book, Simon examines the history of Shi'i Islamic...
In this podcast episode, host SherAli Tareen sits down with Iqbal Sevea to discuss his book, "The Political Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal: Islam and Nationalism in Late Colonial India" (Cambridge, 2012). Tareen writes, "[Iqbal Sevea] explores Iqbal's political and religious thought in a remarkably...
Safoora Arbab was a 2015-16 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the United Kingdom for four months. Arbab's research "is centered on the Khudai Khidmatgar movement begun by Abdul Ghaffar Khan in the late 1920’s. As one of the largest nonviolent organizations they were also thus allied with the Al...
Manamee Guha was a 2015-2016 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in London and India for seven months. Guha examines "the shared colonial past of the three countries of Pakistan, Bangladesh and India during colonial rule through a close study of the British gentlemanly club and its impact on South...
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