AIPS President, Farhat Haq recently sat down with SherAli Tareen to discuss her latest book, "Sharia and the State in Pakistan: Blasphemy Politics." In the podcast interview, Farhat discussed the implications of blasphemy politics in contemporary Pakistan and outlined some of the historical backdrops of the topic. Listen to the full interview here.

SherAli Tareen recently contributed a chapter titled "Disrupting Secular Power and the Study of Religion: Saba Mahmood" to the publication "Cultural Approaches to the Study of Religion: An Introduction to Theories and Methods." Tareen's chapter focuses on the late Pakistani-American anthropologist Saba Mahmood and her contributions to the fields of Anthropology, Religious Studies, and Critical Secularism studies. Find a full text of the chapter here.