Review of “The Caravan: Abdallah Azzam and the Rise of Global Jihad”
I’ve reviewed Thomas Hegghammer’s fascinating account of Arab involvement in the Afghan Jihad of the 1980s (Cambridge University Press, 2020) for the International Journal of…
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New Article “A Direct Flight to Revolution: Maududi, Divine Sovereignty, and the 1979-Moment in Iran”
My latest article has been published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (FirstView): https://doi.org/10.1017/S135618632100033X. It is available Open Access for everyone to read.…
Review of “The ‘Ulama in Contemporary Pakistan: Contesting and Cultivating an Islamic Republic”
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…
Review of “Revolution and Its Discontents. Political Thought and Reform in Iran”
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…
Review of Brannon Ingram’s “Revival from Below”
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…
“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…
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”…
New Journal Article: “Legalised Pedigrees: Sayyids and Shiʿi Islam in Pakistan”
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…
New Article: “Reclaiming the Citizen: Christian and Shi‘i Engagements with the Pakistani State”
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,…
New Co-Authored Article “Religious Minorities in Pakistan: Identities, Citizenship and Social Belonging”
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…