Videos of “Islamic Socialism in the Global South” online
Our first session on Islamic Socialism in Turkey took place yesterday, September 14. Dr. Layli Uddin (King’s College London) and I talked with with İhsan…
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The Middle East as an Utopian Space? Zurich, 19 October (in German)
Zionismus, Sozialismus, Panarabismus, Islamische Republik: Der Nahe Osten und seine Geschichte im Verlauf des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts sind von utopischen Ideologien und Gedanken geprägt. Doch heute…
Series of Webinars on “Islamic Socialism in the Global South”
Please mark your calendars: Dr. Layli Uddin and I have convened a series of webinars on “Islamic Socialism in the Global South” from 14-18 September.…
“In a Pure Muslim Land” reviewed by Ali Usman Qasmi in his essay covering recent literature on Islam and State in Pakistan for H-Soz-Kult
Ali Usman Qasmi (LUMS, Lahore) has reviewed In a Pure Muslim Land. Shi’ism between Pakistan and the Middle East along with Umber bin Ibad’s Sufi…
Workshop on Digital Humanities and the Middle East
Together with my colleagues Valeska Huber (Free University Berlin) and Isabelle Dolezalek (University of Greifswald), I have organized a workshop entitled “Hack the Middle East”:…
New Review of In a Pure Muslim Land in “South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies”
Adam Bobeck (University of Leipzig) has reviewed In a Pure Muslim Land. Shi’ism between Pakistan and the Middle East for South Asia. He writes: “The…
New Review of “In a Pure Muslim Land” in the Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam (JCSI)
Mohammad R. Kalantari (Royal Holloway) considers the book “a wealthy and important contributionto our understanding of Shiʿis in Pakistan, the indigenous ʿulamaʾ and their transnationalties…
New Review of “In a Pure Muslim Land” in The Book Review India
Julien Levesque (Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi) has reviewed In a Pure Muslim Land. Shi’ism between Pakistan and the Middle East for The Book…
“Legalised Pedigrees: Sayyids and Shi’i Islam in Pakistan” (JRAS, 2020) is now open access
Thanks to the generosity of the University of Freiburg and the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), my recently published article in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic…
How to make sense of the influence of Shi’i Grand Ayatollahs (BBC Urdu)
Together with Prof. Ali Usman Qasmi (Lahore University of Management Sciences, LUMS), I had a chance to write a piece for BBC Urdu in which…