Browse Resources

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...

Jennifer Dubrow examines the role of Urdu poetry in the current protests against India's Citizenship Amendment Act. Pakistani Marxist poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz and his poem "Hum Dekhenge" have served as a rallying cry in protests in India and abroad against the Citizen Amendment Act which seeks to...

SherAli Tareen (Franklin and Marshall College) authored this article in a special issue of the ReOrient Journal: "Beyond Revival and Reform: Reorienting the Study of South Asian Islam," which Dr. Tareen also coedited. Dr. Tareen's essay covers the key trends in the study and interpretation of the...

Elizabeth Bolton was a 2014-2015 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Islamabad for 5 months. Bolton's research seeks "to understand the ways in which religious cable television programming re/mediates the process of spiritual guidance and reconfigures viewers’ relationship to religious authority...

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...

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 these...

Sabah Firoz Uddin (Merrimack College) was a 2015 AIPS Short-Term Research Grant awardee who collected "data through archival historical research (Citizens Archive of Pakistan), media analysis and informal participatory interviews with local Pakistani designers, social bloggers and fashion...