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Harappa.com is an interactive website offering the most up-to-date information on the ancient history of Pakistan. You can take virtual tours of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, monumental cities of the ancient Indus Civilization (300 BC-1500 BC). The Harappa.com store offers teaching resources including...

SherAli Tareen was a 2015-2016 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad for six months. Tareen "examines intra-Muslim traditions of debate and contestation on critical ethical issues such as the relationship of Islam and democracy, minority rights in Islam, the boundaries of...

Brian Bond was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted one month of ethnomusicological field research in Lahore. In his research, Bond "explored the ways in which k?f? performance serves as a musical means for the transmission of Islamic and Sufi teachings in contemporary...

Drawing upon experience from attending a faculty development seminar in Lahore, Pakistan, Paul Edleman explores the meaning of space and how space is utilized in Lahore. Edleman argues that politics and space can be intertwined in the architecture of a city and the expression of the city's culture.

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...

Rafeel Wasif (University of Washington) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Lahore, Islamabad, and Karachi. Wasif writes, "This research tries to understand why madrasas as religious NGOs are so reluctant to take government money for their reforms."

Sarah Khan was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research grant awardee. Khan "spent two months in Lahore and Islamabad conducting interviews and collecting research materials for her dissertation, “Combating Violent Islamist Proxies: The Role of Civil Institutions in Pakistan.”

Luther Obrock (University of Pennsylvania) was a 2016 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee. Obrock conducted research at the Punjab University in Lahore to support his research in Pakistan which "concentrates on the Indus River as a major conduit of elite groups between the twelfth and the...

Samina Iqbal was a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Islamabad and Lahore for 2 months. Iqbal "investigates and examines the role of the Lahore Art Circle (LAC) in constructing modernist sensibilities and secular trends within the larger nation-building rhetoric of Pakistan from...

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...