Dr. SherAli Tareen participated in an online symposium on his book "Defending Muhammad in Modernity" (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020) that was hosted by the Contending Modernities forum at the University of Notre Dame. The event featured essays by Jonathan Brown, Faisal Devji, Zunaira Komal, Waris Mazhari, Ammar Nasir, and Sohaira Siddiqui, and one from Dr. Tareen which can be read here.
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Friday, April 9, 2021
Professors Fran Smulcheski and Habbat Kibzai were awarded a travel grant from the State University of New York to conduct research in Pakistan for their collaborative project "Silent Voices Echo: Children at work". Their project researches and photographically documents, artistically, economically, and socially the complexities of child labor in Pakistan especially now during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Friday, April 9, 2021
Dr. Amber Abbas published a new book, "Partition’s First Generation: Space, Place and Identity in Muslim South Asia" with Bloomsbury New York. The book is based on oral history research Dr. Abbas conducted in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh and includes substantial discussion of the experiences of Aligarh graduates (Aligarh Old Boys) in all three post- partition states.
Friday, March 26, 2021
Dr. Mashal Saif recently published a new book, "The 'Ulama in Contemporary Pakistan: Contesting and Cultivating an Islamic Republic" with Cambridge University Press. In this book, Dr.
Friday, March 19, 2021
Dr. Maria-Magdalena Pruss (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin) is organizing a presentation for the 2021 AAS conference titled, "Pan-Asian Modernity Beyond the Colonial Gaze: Education, Social Ethics, and Universal Religion." The session will take place Thursday, March 25, 2021; 8:30 am – 10:00 am EDT. Find further information here