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In this episode of the New Books in Islamic Studies podcast, host SherAli Tareen speaks with Ammara Maqsood to discuss her book "The New Pakistani Middle Class" (Harvard University, 2017). Maqsood's book navigates the relationship between class and religious piety among the urban Pakistani middle...

In this podcast episode, host SherAli Tareen sits down with Iqbal Sevea to discuss his book, "The Political Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal: Islam and Nationalism in Late Colonial India" (Cambridge, 2012). Tareen writes, "[Iqbal Sevea] explores Iqbal's political and religious thought in a remarkably...

Murard Mumtaz was a 2016-17 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in England, France, Ireland, and Switzerland for four months. Mumtaz "focuses on iconic representations of Sufi saints in Indian miniature painting."

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)...

Farhat Haq was a 2015-2016 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Lahore and Islamabad for 4 months. Haq "explores a process, that she calls the "sacralization of the state," whereby governments have selectively used and inserted Islamic law in order to strengthen their political power."

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...

Naveen Kanalu Ramamurthy was a 2017-18 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in the UK, France, Turkey, India, and Pakistan for two months. Ramamurthy "examines the nature and structure of Islamicate sovereignty in the seventeenth century Mughal Empire in South Asia."

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...