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Elliot Montpellier was a 2021 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Karachi, Pakistan for one month. Montpellier's work " focuses on Pakistani television dramas, examining how this entertainment genre uses religion as a discursive and visual theme."

Rajbir Judge was a 2016-17 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the UK, India, and Hungary for five months. Judge "examines the key alliances the Theosophical Society formed between Sikhs in the Punjab through the narrative of Maharaja Duleep Singh."

Ghazal Asif (Johns Hopkins University) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted 3 months of fieldwork in Karachi and Hyderabad, Pakistan. Asif's research was in support of her dissertation which "is concerned with the way religious minorities in Pakistan encounter and recreate...

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."

Murard Mumtaz was a 2016-17 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in England, France, Ireland, and Switzerland for four months. Mumtaz "focuses on iconic representations of Sufi saints in Indian miniature painting."

Farhat Haq sits down for a discussion with SherAli Tareen on a podcast about her recent book publication, "Shari?a and the State in Pakistan." Farhat talks about the history of blasphemy politics in Pakistan and how discourse has shifted over the recent decades. Blasphemy politics in Pakistan...

Jennifer Dubrow examines the role of Urdu poetry in the current protests against India's Citizenship Amendment Act. Pakistani Marxist poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz and his poem "Hum Dekhenge" have served as a rallying cry in protests in India and abroad against the Citizen Amendment Act which seeks to...

SherAli Tareen (Franklin and Marshall College) authored this article in a special issue of the ReOrient Journal: "Beyond Revival and Reform: Reorienting the Study of South Asian Islam," which Dr. Tareen also coedited. Dr. Tareen's essay covers the key trends in the study and interpretation of the...

Elizabeth Bolton was a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Islamabad for 5 months. Bolton's research seeks "to understand the ways in which religious cable television programming re/mediates the process of spiritual guidance and reconfigures viewers’ relationship to religious authorit...

Following several meetings with senior religious scholars including the four Grand Ayatollahs based in Najaf, Iraq, Hassan Abbas discusses the succession of 89-year-old Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani. Abbas reflects on his meeting with al-Sistani and gives a brief summary of the impact the Grand...