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In this episode of the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast, host Shobhana Xavier sits down with Shahla Haeri to discuss her book, "The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession, Authority, and Gender" (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Haeri's book serves as a biography of the various Muslim women...

In this episode of the New Books in Islamic Studies host Shobhana Xavier sits down with E. Bazzano and M. Hermansen to discuss their book "Varieties of American Sufism: Islam, Sufi Orders, and Authorities in a Time of Transition" (SUNY Press, 2020). This edited volume explores the various dimensions...

Lubna Chaudhry a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Islamabad for 2 months. Chaudhry's research aims to "fill a gap by generating in-depth situated knowledge about Pakistani Christians' multi-dimensional responses to the insecurity and discrimination in their lives."

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...

Zehra Husain was a 2019-2020 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Pakistan for nine months. Husain's research focuses on Lyari Town, historically home to economic migrants from the Persian Gulf, and seeks to explore how marginalized communities influence national media representations through their...

Rajender Kaur was a "2019 participant in the CAORC-AIPS Faculty Development Seminar to Pakistan. In this essay, she discusses the history and legacy of several abandoned Sikh temples (or gurudwara) she visited while in Lahore and Islamabad."

Hashim Ali was a 2021 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research at the Punjab Archives in Lahore, Pakistan for two months. Ali's research focused on the separation of students during the times of colonization as a way to establish "historical context for the formation of...

Ghazal Asif was a 2019 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Sindh, Pakistan in the summer of 2019. Asif "was interested in examining the record of the Sindh Scheduled Caste Federation and understanding the role it played during the 1940s when Sindhi leaders joined the...

Shehram Mokhtar was a 2018 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who lived with a hijra household in Karachi for two months to learn about community structure and cultural practices.

Salman Hussain (University of Michigan) was a 2017 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant Awardee who spent 3 months in Pakistan exploring the "connections between the everyday life of this provincial city and gendered, transnational migrations."