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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...

Shundana Yusuf was a 2017-18 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in India and Iran for four months. Yusuf "explores the importance of audition in the history of Islamic architecture."

Malik Bilal was a 2011-2012 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Pakistan. Bilal's research explores three inter-related issues "i) madrasa students’ understandings of the ‘secular modern’ and its compatibility with ‘traditional religion’; ii) the processes through which they acquire ...

Waleed Ziad was a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the UK and Uzbekistan for four months. Ziad "examines the development of trans- regional Islamic revivalist networks from the mid-18th to mid-19th centuries, centered around Sindh, Peshawar, and the Kabul Valley, and extending across...

Christopher Candland was a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad for 1 month. Candland's "research on Pakistani philanthropy provides an opportunity to engage with Pakistani scholars and social activists on an issue that is a matter of justified pride and to make...