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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 authorit...

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 ...

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...