Browse Resources

Shehram Mokhtar (University of Oregon) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Islamabad and the Tharparker district of Sindh. Mokhtar's research centered around folkloric practices- music, dance, poetry, and storytelling of Pakistani rural culture.

Iqbal Akhtar (Florida International University)was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant Awardee who conducted library research in Islamabad on the history of the Kh?j? people and their culture.

Maria-Magdalena Fuchs (Princeton University) was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted two months of research in Lahore, Pakistan. Fuchs' research centers on "how Muslim associations (so-called Anjumans) contributed to the creation of an Urdu public sphere in late colonial...

Aabiya Noman Baqai was a 2022 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee and conducted research in Islamabad, Pakistan for two months. Baqai's research focuses on "how Christian women from informal settlements re-orient Islamabad’s claim to a single imagined national identity through the buil...

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 the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast, host SherAli Tareen sits with Nosheen Ali to discuss her book, "Delusional States: Feeling Rule and Development in Pakistan's Northern Frontier" (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Tarren writes, "Ali presents a lyrical and at many times...

In this episode of the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast, host Allison Leigh sits down with Uzma Quraishi to discuss her book, "Redefining the Immigrant South: Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston During the Cold War" (University of North Carolina Press, 2020). Leight wites, "Quraishi...

In this episode of the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast, host Samee Siddiqui speaks with Manan Ahmed Asif about his book, "The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India" (Harvard University Press, 2020). In his book, "Manan Ahmed Asif argues that Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Republic of India...

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...