Sherali Tareen
Franklin & Marshall College, Religious Studies, Faculty Member
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Open Access link: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/taed/issue/82566/1397406 This article presents the first complete English translation of a major Persian text on Sufi meditation and cosmology: the towering eighteenth century Naqshbandī... more
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This article presents the first complete English translation of a major Persian text on Sufi meditation and cosmology: the towering eighteenth century Naqshbandī Indian Sufi master and poet Mirzā Maẓhar Jān-i Jānān's (d. 1781) Sulūk-i Ṭarīqa (The Conduct of the Sufi Path). Composed in 1760, at the centerpiece of this text is the encounter between the realm of divine reality, prophetic authority, and the practice and conduct of the Sufi practitioner, especially in relation to the journey through the subtle spiritual centers or laṭā'if.
https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/taed/issue/82566/1397406
This article presents the first complete English translation of a major Persian text on Sufi meditation and cosmology: the towering eighteenth century Naqshbandī Indian Sufi master and poet Mirzā Maẓhar Jān-i Jānān's (d. 1781) Sulūk-i Ṭarīqa (The Conduct of the Sufi Path). Composed in 1760, at the centerpiece of this text is the encounter between the realm of divine reality, prophetic authority, and the practice and conduct of the Sufi practitioner, especially in relation to the journey through the subtle spiritual centers or laṭā'if.
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Translation (with a detailed Introduction) of a fascinating text on an interreligious polemic involving Muslim and Hindu scholars, and Christian missionaries in late 19th century India, with a focus on the question of miracles and the... more
Translation (with a detailed Introduction) of a fascinating text on an interreligious polemic involving Muslim and Hindu scholars, and Christian missionaries in late 19th century India, with a focus on the question of miracles and the status of Hindu avatars in Islam.
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https://themarginaliareview.com/sovereignty-and-secularism/
Response to five essays in a book forum on Defending Muhammad in Modernity.
https://themarginaliareview.com/forum-tareens-muhammad-modernity/
Response to five essays in a book forum on Defending Muhammad in Modernity.
https://themarginaliareview.com/forum-tareens-muhammad-modernity/
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https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article-abstract/41/3/370/286533/Thinking-the-Question-of-Religious-Minorities-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext This conceptual essay pivots on the following problem: Tethered to a context of Muslim empire,... more
https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article-abstract/41/3/370/286533/Thinking-the-Question-of-Religious-Minorities-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext
This conceptual essay pivots on the following problem: Tethered to a context of Muslim empire, how is the legacy of the premodern Islamic legal tradition engaged and negotiated in the modern colonial moment in South Asia, marked by the loss of Muslim political sovereignty and the emergence of South Asian Muslims as a minority community? It engages this question through the example of intra-Muslim debates and contestations on the boundaries of friendship between Muslims and non-Muslims in modern South Asia, with a focus on the thought of certain prominent traditionalist ‘ulama’.
This conceptual essay pivots on the following problem: Tethered to a context of Muslim empire, how is the legacy of the premodern Islamic legal tradition engaged and negotiated in the modern colonial moment in South Asia, marked by the loss of Muslim political sovereignty and the emergence of South Asian Muslims as a minority community? It engages this question through the example of intra-Muslim debates and contestations on the boundaries of friendship between Muslims and non-Muslims in modern South Asia, with a focus on the thought of certain prominent traditionalist ‘ulama’.
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https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/sovereignty-and-its-afterlives/ Response to online symposium on Defending Muhammad in Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020) with essays by Jonathan Brown, Faisal... more
https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/sovereignty-and-its-afterlives/
Response to online symposium on Defending Muhammad in Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020) with essays by Jonathan Brown, Faisal Devji, Zunaira Komal, Waris Mazhari, Ebrahim Moosa, Ammar Nasir, and Sohaira Siddiqui. All essays available in link provided above.
Response to online symposium on Defending Muhammad in Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020) with essays by Jonathan Brown, Faisal Devji, Zunaira Komal, Waris Mazhari, Ebrahim Moosa, Ammar Nasir, and Sohaira Siddiqui. All essays available in link provided above.
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http://cup.columbia.edu/book/modern-sufis-and-the-state/9780231195751
Commentary essay in "Modern Sufis and the State" edited by Katherine Ewing and Rosemary Corbett, Columbia University Press, 2020, pp. 174-184.
Commentary essay in "Modern Sufis and the State" edited by Katherine Ewing and Rosemary Corbett, Columbia University Press, 2020, pp. 174-184.
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/reorient.5.issue-2 Introduction to a special issue of the ReOrient Journal "Beyond Revival and Reform: Reorienting the Study of South Asian Islam" that showcases 6 articles on less studied aspects of... more
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/reorient.5.issue-2
Introduction to a special issue of the ReOrient Journal "Beyond Revival and Reform: Reorienting the Study of South Asian Islam" that showcases 6 articles on less studied aspects of South Asian Islam.
Introduction to a special issue of the ReOrient Journal "Beyond Revival and Reform: Reorienting the Study of South Asian Islam" that showcases 6 articles on less studied aspects of South Asian Islam.
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This essay presents a broad overview of certain key works and intellectual trends that mark traditional scholarship on the Qur’an in South Asia, from the late medieval to the modern periods, roughly the fourteenth to the mid-twentieth... more
This essay presents a broad overview of certain key works and intellectual trends that mark traditional scholarship on the Qur’an in South Asia, from the late medieval to the modern periods, roughly the fourteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Far from an exhaustive survey of any sort, what I have attempted instead is a preliminary and necessarily partial outline of the intellectual trajectory of Qur’an commentaries and translations in the South Asian context—in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu—with a view to exploring how shifting historical and political conditions informed new ways of engaging the Qur’an. My central argument is this: in South Asia, the early modern and modern
periods saw an important shift from largely elite scholarship on the Qur’an, invariably conducted by scholars intimately bound to the imperial order of their time, to more self-consciously popular works of translation and exegesis designed to access and attract a wider non-elite public. In this shift, I argue, translation itself emerged as an important and powerful medium of hermeneutical populism pregnant with the promise of broadening the boundaries of the Qur’an’s readership and understanding. In other words, as the pendulum of political sovereignty gradually shifted from pre-colonial Islamicate imperial orders to British colonialism, new ways of imagining the role, function, and accessibility of the Qur’an also came into central view. A major emphasis of this essay is on the thought and contributions of the hugely influential eighteenth-century scholar Shah Wali Ullah (d. 1762) and his family on the intellectual topography of South Asian Qur’an commentaries
and translations.
periods saw an important shift from largely elite scholarship on the Qur’an, invariably conducted by scholars intimately bound to the imperial order of their time, to more self-consciously popular works of translation and exegesis designed to access and attract a wider non-elite public. In this shift, I argue, translation itself emerged as an important and powerful medium of hermeneutical populism pregnant with the promise of broadening the boundaries of the Qur’an’s readership and understanding. In other words, as the pendulum of political sovereignty gradually shifted from pre-colonial Islamicate imperial orders to British colonialism, new ways of imagining the role, function, and accessibility of the Qur’an also came into central view. A major emphasis of this essay is on the thought and contributions of the hugely influential eighteenth-century scholar Shah Wali Ullah (d. 1762) and his family on the intellectual topography of South Asian Qur’an commentaries
and translations.
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This essay examines an important yet hitherto unexplored early-nineteenth century Indo-Persian work of Muslim political theology Station of Leadership (Manṣab-i Imāmat; also known as Darājāt-i Imāmat), written by the towering and... more
This essay examines an important yet hitherto unexplored early-nineteenth century Indo-Persian work of Muslim political theology Station of Leadership (Manṣab-i Imāmat; also known as Darājāt-i Imāmat), written by the towering and contentious Sunnī thinker and political theorist from Delhi Shāh Muḥammad Ismāʿīl (d. 1831). In this hugely critical though lesser known of Ismāʿīl’s texts, he sought to detail a theory and framework of ideal forms of Muslim political orders and leaders. Manṣab-i Imāmat presents a fascinating example of a text of Muslim political theology composed during a moment marked by a crisis of sovereignty as South Asia gradually yet decisively transitioned from Mughal to British rule. In this essay, through a close reading of Manṣab-i Imāmat, I aim to bring into view a vision of Muslim political thought and understanding of sovereignty that exceed and subvert the modern privileging of a territorial conception of the nation-state as the centerpiece of politics. I show that while tethered to an imperial Muslim political theology that assumed Islam’s superiority over and subsumption of other religious identities and traditions, sovereign power for Ismāʿīl indexed not territorial sovereignty but the maintenance of Muslim markers of distinction in the public performance of everyday religious life.
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This essay describes and engages key themes, arguments, and interventions of a major recent monograph in the study of religion and Islam: Muhammad Qasim Zaman's Islam in Pakistan-A History (princeton University Press, 2018).
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Introduction to book forum on Saba Mahmood's Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report (Princeton University Press, 2018), with contributions by John Modern, Arvind Mandair, and Nermeen Mouftah.... more
Introduction to book forum on Saba Mahmood's Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report (Princeton University Press, 2018), with contributions by John Modern, Arvind Mandair, and Nermeen Mouftah.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame
https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame
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This essay analyzes Saba Mahmood's intellectual career through a close reading of her key texts and signature interventions in anthropology, Religious Studies, and Critical Secularism Studies, while also engaging and responding to major... more
This essay analyzes Saba Mahmood's intellectual career through a close reading of her key texts and signature interventions in anthropology, Religious Studies, and Critical Secularism Studies, while also engaging and responding to major critiques of her thought. This chapter was published in Sarah Bloesch and Meredith Minister's "Cultural Approaches to the Study of Religion: An Introduction to Theories and Methods." (Bloomsbury, 2018).
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An analysis of major epistemological and political shifts and developments in modern Muslim history. I have written this essay with a view towards accessible yet conceptually invigorating usage in undergraduate and graduate seminars, and... more
An analysis of major epistemological and political shifts and developments in modern Muslim history. I have written this essay with a view towards accessible yet conceptually invigorating usage in undergraduate and graduate seminars, and have tried to balance attention to Muslim intellectual thought and political history.
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This essay examines the theme of inter-religious translation in the context of early modern India. More specifically, it considers the prominent 18th century Sufi master and scholar Mirzā Maẓhar Jān-i Jānān's (d.1781) translation of Hindu... more
This essay examines the theme of inter-religious translation in the context of early modern India. More specifically, it considers the prominent 18th century Sufi master and scholar Mirzā Maẓhar Jān-i Jānān's (d.1781) translation of Hindu thought and practice as reflected in his Persian letters on this subject. Through a close reading of the content and context of his translation project, I show that while according the Hindu ‘other’ remarkable doctrinal hospitality, Jān-i Jānān's view of translation was firmly tethered to an imperial Muslim political theology committed to upholding the exceptionality of Muslim normative authority. Interrogating his negotiation of hospitality and exceptionality and the notions of time that undergirded that negotiation occupies much of this essay. I also explore ways in which Jān-i Jānān's translation of Hinduism might engage ongoing scholarly conversations regarding the rupture of colonial modernity in the discursive career of religion in South Asia. In the Euro-American study of religion, many scholars have shown the intimacy of modern secular power and the reconfiguration of religion as a universally translatable category. But what conceptual and historiographical gains might one derive by shifting the camera of analysis from the colonial reification of religion to the inter-religious translation efforts of a late 18th century thinker like Jān-i Jānān who wrote at the cusp of colonial modernity? This question hovers over the problem-space of this essay.
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To cite this article: SherAli Tareen (2017) Revolutionary hermeneutics: translating the Qur'an as a manifesto for revolution, Journal of Religious and Political Practice, 3:1-2, 1-24.
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This essay examines certain key epistemological assumptions and positions found in the thought of prominent modern Muslim scholars, as they imagined the interaction of Islam and the conditions of colonial modernity. The event of... more
This essay examines certain key epistemological assumptions and positions found in the thought of prominent modern Muslim scholars, as they imagined the interaction of Islam and the conditions of colonial modernity. The event of colonialism in the nineteenth century, and its twin ideology of modernity, transformed the political and conceptual terrain on which the question of Islam was imagined and contested. While
operating in this new terrain, Muslim scholars reconfigured the conceptual underpinning of Islam in novel ways, as they strived to curate an intellectual programme for the moral and political emancipation of Muslims. In what follows I highlight major features of some of these intellectual programmes. Specifically, I address the question of how Muslim scholars conceptualised the ideas of temporality, hermeneutics, and sovereignty during the colonial moment. The central focus of this essay is on the religious and political thought of the towering twentieth-century Indian Muslim modernist Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1939) as seen in his important English text The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam published in 1930. I also juxtapose Iqbal’s thought with that of the famous Islamist thinker/activist Sayyid Qu.b (d. 1966) to think through some of the epistemological convergences between Muslim modernist and Islamist/fundamentalist thought on questions of time and sovereignty.
operating in this new terrain, Muslim scholars reconfigured the conceptual underpinning of Islam in novel ways, as they strived to curate an intellectual programme for the moral and political emancipation of Muslims. In what follows I highlight major features of some of these intellectual programmes. Specifically, I address the question of how Muslim scholars conceptualised the ideas of temporality, hermeneutics, and sovereignty during the colonial moment. The central focus of this essay is on the religious and political thought of the towering twentieth-century Indian Muslim modernist Muhammad Iqbal (d. 1939) as seen in his important English text The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam published in 1930. I also juxtapose Iqbal’s thought with that of the famous Islamist thinker/activist Sayyid Qu.b (d. 1966) to think through some of the epistemological convergences between Muslim modernist and Islamist/fundamentalist thought on questions of time and sovereignty.
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This essay revolves around an analysis of a polemical exchange between two highly prominent Indian Muslim thinkers in Delhi, Shah Isma’il Shahid (d. 1831) and Fazl-i Haqq Khayrabadi (d. 1862), over the limits of the capacity of Prophet... more
This essay revolves around an analysis of a polemical exchange between two highly prominent Indian Muslim thinkers in Delhi, Shah Isma’il Shahid (d. 1831) and Fazl-i Haqq Khayrabadi (d. 1862), over the limits of the capacity of Prophet Muhammad to intercede (shafa’at) on behalf of sinners on the day of judgment. While focusing on this polemical moment, it explores the question of how this ostensibly theological debate on the limits of prophetic intercession connected to a much broader political debate surrounding the sociology of sovereignty under conditions of political change and transition. It argues that the opposing arguments on the limits of prophetic authority made centrally visible in this debate were intimately connected to larger questions surrounding the normative status of social hierarchies, distinctions and monarchical modes of being in early nineteenth-century India.
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In South Asia, as elsewhere, the category of ‘the public’ has come under increased scholarly and popular scrutiny in recent years. To better understand this current conjuncture, we need a fuller understanding of the specifically South... more
In South Asia, as elsewhere, the category of ‘the public’ has come under increased scholarly and popular scrutiny in recent years. To better understand this current conjuncture, we need a fuller understanding of the specifically South Asian history of the term. To that end, this book surveys the modern Indian ‘public’ across multiple historical contexts and sites, with contributions from leading scholars of South Asia in anthropology, history, literary studies and religious studies. As a whole, this volume highlights the complex genealogies of the public in the Indian subcontinent during the colonial and postcolonial eras, showing in particular how British notions of ‘the public’ intersected with South Asian forms of publicity. Two principal methods or approaches—the genealogical and the typological—have characterised this scholarship. This book suggests, more in the mode of genealogy, that the category of the public has been closely linked to the sub-continental history of political liberalism. Also discussed is how the studies collected in this volume challenge some of liberalism’s key presuppositions about the public and its relationship to law and religion. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.
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Quote as: Salvatore Armando, Babak Rahimi, and Roberto Tottoli (eds). 2018. The Wiley Blackwell History of Islam. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. [You'll find the Introduction and my two co-authored Chapters in the section 'Book Chapters and... more
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Salvatore Armando, Babak Rahimi, and Roberto Tottoli (eds). 2018. The Wiley Blackwell History of Islam. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
[You'll find the Introduction and my two co-authored Chapters in the section 'Book Chapters and Intros' by scrolling down my main academia webpage]
A theoretically rich, nuanced history of Islam and Islamic civilization with a unique sociological component. This major new reference work offers a complete historical and theoretically informed view of Islam as both a religion and a sociocultural force. It surveys and discusses the transformation of Muslim societies in different eras and various regions, providing a broad narrative of the historical development of Islamic civilization.
This text explores the complex and varied history of the religion and its traditions. It provides an in-depth study of the diverse ways through which the religious dimension at the core of Islamic traditions has led to a distinctive type of civilizational process in history. The book illuminates the ways in which various historical forces have converged and crystallized in institutional forms at a variety of levels, embracing social, religious, legal, political, cultural, and civic dimensions. Together, the team of internationally renowned scholars move from the genesis of a new social order in 7th-century Arabia, right up to the rise of revolutionary Islamist currents in the 20th century and the varied ways in which Islam has grown and continues to pervade daily life in the Middle East and beyond.
This book is essential reading for students and academics in a wide range of fields, including sociology, history, law, and political science. It will also appeal to general readers with an interest in the history of one of the world’s great religions.
Salvatore Armando, Babak Rahimi, and Roberto Tottoli (eds). 2018. The Wiley Blackwell History of Islam. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
[You'll find the Introduction and my two co-authored Chapters in the section 'Book Chapters and Intros' by scrolling down my main academia webpage]
A theoretically rich, nuanced history of Islam and Islamic civilization with a unique sociological component. This major new reference work offers a complete historical and theoretically informed view of Islam as both a religion and a sociocultural force. It surveys and discusses the transformation of Muslim societies in different eras and various regions, providing a broad narrative of the historical development of Islamic civilization.
This text explores the complex and varied history of the religion and its traditions. It provides an in-depth study of the diverse ways through which the religious dimension at the core of Islamic traditions has led to a distinctive type of civilizational process in history. The book illuminates the ways in which various historical forces have converged and crystallized in institutional forms at a variety of levels, embracing social, religious, legal, political, cultural, and civic dimensions. Together, the team of internationally renowned scholars move from the genesis of a new social order in 7th-century Arabia, right up to the rise of revolutionary Islamist currents in the 20th century and the varied ways in which Islam has grown and continues to pervade daily life in the Middle East and beyond.
This book is essential reading for students and academics in a wide range of fields, including sociology, history, law, and political science. It will also appeal to general readers with an interest in the history of one of the world’s great religions.
Research Interests: Religion, History, Sociology of Religion, Historical Sociology, Middle East Studies, and 15 moreHistory of Religion, Religion and Politics, Central Asian Studies, Sociology of islam, Islamic Studies, Islam in Central Asia, Islam in the Southeast Asia, Islam, Comparative and historical sociology, Comparative Historical Analysis, Islam and Modernity, Islamic History and Muslim Civilization, Comparative Historical Sociology, Historical and Comparative Sociology, and Religious and Islamic Studies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNoEzWQRgPs Talk and Discussion (in Pashto and Urdu) on SherAli Tareen’s Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire (Columbia University Press, 2023) at the Peshawar Literature... more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNoEzWQRgPs
Talk and Discussion (in Pashto and Urdu) on SherAli Tareen’s Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire (Columbia University Press, 2023) at the Peshawar Literature Festival February 2023.
Talk and Discussion (in Pashto and Urdu) on SherAli Tareen’s Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire (Columbia University Press, 2023) at the Peshawar Literature Festival February 2023.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r01lB0tZu4
Talk and Discussion (in Pashto and Urdu) on SherAli Tareen’s Defending Muhammad in Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020) at the Peshawar Literature Festival May 2022.
Talk and Discussion (in Pashto and Urdu) on SherAli Tareen’s Defending Muhammad in Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020) at the Peshawar Literature Festival May 2022.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yF1OPtAQko&t=284s
An introduction in Urdu to the key concepts and categories of critical secularism studies, with a focus on the thought and writings of Professor Saba Mahmood.
An introduction in Urdu to the key concepts and categories of critical secularism studies, with a focus on the thought and writings of Professor Saba Mahmood.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWxcGFZ1YnQ
“What is Political Theology? Shifting Conceptions of Sovereignty in South Asia.”
Talk at Hast O Neest Institute Lahore, September 2021
“What is Political Theology? Shifting Conceptions of Sovereignty in South Asia.”
Talk at Hast O Neest Institute Lahore, September 2021
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MOTTAH0RrM&t=1405s
Talk and panel discussion on "Decolonial Muslim Studies and Defending Muhammad in Modernity."
Talk and panel discussion on "Decolonial Muslim Studies and Defending Muhammad in Modernity."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLPS-WgvVWE&app=desktop
Talk and discussion on "Interreligious Polemics in Colonial India" as part of the Habib University and University of Exeter "Islam after Colonialism" Series, November 2020.
Talk and discussion on "Interreligious Polemics in Colonial India" as part of the Habib University and University of Exeter "Islam after Colonialism" Series, November 2020.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fmlsap4GR8&t=325s
Urdu Interview on Defending Muhammad in Modernity at Hast O Neest Institute April 17th, 2020
Urdu Interview on Defending Muhammad in Modernity at Hast O Neest Institute April 17th, 2020
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRp1Vqg_KpU&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop Seminar at Hast O Neest Institute Lahore, Pakistan on interrogating the categories of colonialism, religion, and modernity (especially in the South Asian Context),... more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRp1Vqg_KpU&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop
Seminar at Hast O Neest Institute Lahore, Pakistan on interrogating the categories of colonialism, religion, and modernity (especially in the South Asian Context), genealogy as a method of inquiry, and a fascinating late 19th century inter-religious polemic "The Polemic of Shahjahanpur" involving major Muslim and Hindu scholars, and Christian missionaries as a case study of analysis.
Seminar at Hast O Neest Institute Lahore, Pakistan on interrogating the categories of colonialism, religion, and modernity (especially in the South Asian Context), genealogy as a method of inquiry, and a fascinating late 19th century inter-religious polemic "The Polemic of Shahjahanpur" involving major Muslim and Hindu scholars, and Christian missionaries as a case study of analysis.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pND1YxF4iYc&t=2066s
Keynote Talk Mcgill University Islamic Studies Conference 2019 on "Defending Muhammad in Modernity."
Keynote Talk Mcgill University Islamic Studies Conference 2019 on "Defending Muhammad in Modernity."
Research Interests: South Asia and Islam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Tv7_iUUCs&feature=youtu.be Talk in Urdu (with English translation) on the interaction of conditions of colonial modernity and the emergence of Muslim reform movements, competing Muslim political... more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Tv7_iUUCs&feature=youtu.be
Talk in Urdu (with English translation) on the interaction of conditions of colonial modernity and the emergence of Muslim reform movements, competing Muslim political theologies, and intra-Muslim scholarly debates and contestations in South Asia, with a focus on the Barelvi-Deobandi controversy."
Talk in Urdu (with English translation) on the interaction of conditions of colonial modernity and the emergence of Muslim reform movements, competing Muslim political theologies, and intra-Muslim scholarly debates and contestations in South Asia, with a focus on the Barelvi-Deobandi controversy."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktJtDMMN6Sw&feature=youtu.be
Interview with Dr. Junaid Ahmed on Daanish TV Pakistan; wide ranging conversation on Islam, Secularism, Political Theology, and contemporary South Asian Politics.
Interview with Dr. Junaid Ahmed on Daanish TV Pakistan; wide ranging conversation on Islam, Secularism, Political Theology, and contemporary South Asian Politics.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=P3eRN2me6ac&app=desktop
A discussion on Defending Muhammad in Modernity with Islamic Circles UK, July 2020.
A discussion on Defending Muhammad in Modernity with Islamic Circles UK, July 2020.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv4oOHlaPeU
Interview on Defending Muḥammad in Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020) for Center of Islam in the Contemporary World (CICW) May 1st, 2020.
Interview on Defending Muḥammad in Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020) for Center of Islam in the Contemporary World (CICW) May 1st, 2020.
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Brief review of Farhat Haq's recent book on the history and present of blasphemy in Pakistan.
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Review of Iqbal Sevea's The Political Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
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https://criticalmuslimstudies.co.uk/project/imran-khans-battle-for-sovereignty/
Opinion Essay on the current political moment in Pakistan
Opinion Essay on the current political moment in Pakistan
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https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/567004-follies-failures-secular-convictions
https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/566968-follies-failures-secular-convictions
https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/detail/566968-follies-failures-secular-convictions
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http://www.publicseminar.org/2019/09/the-aspirations-and-ambiguities-of-de-colonial-politics/ An exploration of some key aspects of Imran Khan's first year as Pakistan's Prime Minister through the conceptual lens of the aspirations and... more
http://www.publicseminar.org/2019/09/the-aspirations-and-ambiguities-of-de-colonial-politics/
An exploration of some key aspects of Imran Khan's first year as Pakistan's Prime Minister through the conceptual lens of the aspirations and limits of de-colonial politics.
An exploration of some key aspects of Imran Khan's first year as Pakistan's Prime Minister through the conceptual lens of the aspirations and limits of de-colonial politics.
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https://www.themaydan.com/2019/08/roundtable-religion-in-muslim-traditions-workshop-may-4-5-2019-williams-college/#journal1 While there has been a rich body of scholarship in Religious Studies and Anthropology that has provided us with a... more
https://www.themaydan.com/2019/08/roundtable-religion-in-muslim-traditions-workshop-may-4-5-2019-williams-college/#journal1
While there has been a rich body of scholarship in Religious Studies and Anthropology that has provided us with a complex understanding of the emergence of the category of religion in the modern world, this issue and its implications have largely remained under-studied and under-theorized in the field of Islamic Studies. With this basic assessment of the field and a desire for deeper and more sustained interrogation of this issue, I organized and hosted a workshop at Williams College titled "'Religion' in Muslim Traditions" from May 4-5, 2019. I invited nine scholars-both nationally and internationally located, from graduate students to senior scholars-to participate in a forum that could serve as a space for informal dialogue and open-ended exploration.
Included below is an overview of the background ideas, goals, and motives of the workshop. That summary is followed by a brief writeup by each participant, providing a basic overview or abstract of their presentation at the workshop, as well as some big-picture reflections and take-aways from the workshop. Finally, this broad presentation on the workshop concludes with two brief solicited responses written by Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst and Brannon Ingram, reflecting on the core ideas presented below.
While there has been a rich body of scholarship in Religious Studies and Anthropology that has provided us with a complex understanding of the emergence of the category of religion in the modern world, this issue and its implications have largely remained under-studied and under-theorized in the field of Islamic Studies. With this basic assessment of the field and a desire for deeper and more sustained interrogation of this issue, I organized and hosted a workshop at Williams College titled "'Religion' in Muslim Traditions" from May 4-5, 2019. I invited nine scholars-both nationally and internationally located, from graduate students to senior scholars-to participate in a forum that could serve as a space for informal dialogue and open-ended exploration.
Included below is an overview of the background ideas, goals, and motives of the workshop. That summary is followed by a brief writeup by each participant, providing a basic overview or abstract of their presentation at the workshop, as well as some big-picture reflections and take-aways from the workshop. Finally, this broad presentation on the workshop concludes with two brief solicited responses written by Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst and Brannon Ingram, reflecting on the core ideas presented below.
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https://tif.ssrc.org/2020/06/12/modernity-tareen/
A brief meditation on modernity, courtesy The Immanent Frame (SSRC) "A Universe of Terms Series"
A brief meditation on modernity, courtesy The Immanent Frame (SSRC) "A Universe of Terms Series"
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http://www.pakistanstudies-aips.org/content/aips-2020-book-prize
American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) 2020 Book Prize Announcement for Defending Muhammad in Modernity
American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) 2020 Book Prize Announcement for Defending Muhammad in Modernity