I’ve reviewed Mashal Saif’s (Clemson University) new provocative and exctiting book (Cambridge University Press, 2020) on Pakistan’s contemporary religious scholars and how they engage the…
I’ve reviewed Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi’s “Revolution and Its Discontents. Political Thought and Reform in Iran” (Cambridge UP, 2019) for Political Theology. A marvelous work that transcends…
I’ve reviewed Brannon D. Ingram’s exciting “Revival from Below. The Deoband Movement and Global Islam” (https://www.ucpress.edu/…/9780520298002/revival-from-below) for Die Welt des Islams. The book is essential…
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…
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”…
My latest article is out in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society: “Legalised Pedigrees: Sayyids and Shiʽi Islam in Pakistan” is part of a…
My latest article has now been published in the Journal South Asia. The abstract gives you a brief idea of my arguments: At first glance,…
This introduction (co-authored with Maria-Magdalena Fuchs) to the a special issue of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, titled ‘Religious Minorities in Pakistan’, reviews…
My latest article has been published in Global Discourse (Vol. 9, no. 04, 2019). It’s part of a special issue on “Transnational religious networks and…
I recently had the pleasure to speak with Asad Dandia (Columbia University) about my book for the New Books in Middle Eastern Studies Podcast. You…