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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."

Syed Akbar Hyder was a 2013-2014 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore for 2 months. Hyder used this fellowship to "to complete an annotated English translation and critical commentary of Shabbir Hasan Khan Josh Malihabadi’s autobiography, Yadon ki barat (Procession of Memories). For the pas...

Syed Eisar Haider was a 2022 Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Islamabad, Pakistan for two months. Haider's research focuses on "the role of global pilgrimage with respect to the religious practice in everyday life of Shia Muslims in Pakistan."

Chad Haines was a 2019-2020 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Pakistan for one month. Haines' research focused on Afghan refugees in Lahore, Pakistani Christians, and Pakistani Hindus, investigating the history of settlements and making of "minority" populations in the colonial and postcolonial...

William Sherman was a 2015-2016 AIPS Fellow who conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad for four weeks. "Focusing primarily on the religious imaginations Bayazid Ansari and the Rawshaniyya, this project draws upon manuscript sources in order to trace the development and transformation of...

Shahla Haeri was a 2015-16 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad for two months. Haeri writes: "In this trip I was able to conduct several high level interviews regarding Benazir Bhutto’s family life and upbringing, politics and leadership. I am interested in the politica...

In this episode of the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast, host SherAli Tareen discusses with Cabeiri Robinson her new book, "Body of Victim, Body of Warrior: Refugee Families and the Making of Kashmiri Jihadists" (University of California Press, 2013). Cabeiri explores the implication of violence...

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...

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 podcast episode of New Books in Islamic Studies, host Shobhana Xavier talks with author SherAli Tareen about his book Defending Muhammad in Modernity (UND Press, 2020). Xavier writes, "[Tareen] takes us into the fascinating world of the ‘ulama (theologians) of the late eighteenth an...