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Fatima Quraishi (New York University) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who visited "funerary monuments and museum collections in Lahore as part of her dissertation research on the vast Makli necropolis, located in the Indus river delta region in Sindh."

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...

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."

Aqil Shah offers an analysis of the Pakistan's 2018 Parliamentary elections that scored a key victory for Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf and brought Imran Khan into power as Prime Minister. Shah notes that despite this being the second peaceful turnover of power in Pakistan, the election has been marred...

Neelam Khoja was a 2016-17 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the UK and France for three months. Khoja "inquires how changes in political and nonpolitical power lead to new or reimagined representations of land and space, language and culture, self and community in eighteenth and early...

Pei-Ling Huang (Harvard University) was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who conducted research in Sindh and South Punjab, Pakistan. Pei-Ling Huang is "interested in the Sh?h Jo R?g, the oral musical tradition performed by the faq?rs of Sh?h Lat?f."

SherAli Tareen (Franklin and Marshall College) was a 2014 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant Awardee who conducted research in Islamabad, Lahore, and Gujrat, Pakistan. Tareen's research focuses on the discourses of an important but rather understudied Indian Muslim scholar, 'Ubaydullah Sindhi (d. 1944)...

This study by Waheed Alam, Abdul Hameed, Shakir Ullah, and Muhammad Wali Ullah examines the pictograms (rock paintings) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. By studying the type and prevalence of different designs (including human, zoomorphic, and artificial structures), the researchers are able to make cultural...

The Sajjad Zaheer Digital Archive, organized by the University of Texas at Austin South Asia Institute, seeks to consolidate writings and collections of Syed Sajjad Zaheer (1905-1973), renown Urdu litterateur and political activist.

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...