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”:…
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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…
“Red Zone Tehran”
For the new “Science and Corona” website of Bavarian Broadcasting (Bayerischer Rundfunk), I provided an analysis of authoritarian regimes how the Iranian government has handled…
New Review of “In a Pure Muslim Land” by Prof. Amit Dey (University of Calcutta)
Prof. Amit Dey (History Department, University of Calcutta) has reviewed In a Pure Muslim Land for the the Indian Daily The Telegraph: “The multi-disciplinary approach,…
Instagram Live Conversation with Prof. Sajjad Rizvi
On Monday, May 4, I will discuss with Prof. Sajjad Rizvi (Exter) my ongoing research related to the global history of the Iranian Revolution: “How…
New Article: “Casting aside the Clutches of Conjecture: the Striving for Religious Certainty at Aligarh”
What motivated the famous North Indian Muslim modernist Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (d. 1898) and his associates? My new article in “Islamic Law and Society”…