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Anwesha Das
Educational Background:
2017 MPhil in Ancient History
Jawaharlal Nehru University
2015 MA in Ancient History
Jawaharlal Nehru University
2013 BA in History
Presidency College, University of Calcutta
Research Interests:
Indian Ocean studies; western coast of South Asia
vis a vis the wider Indian Ocean (1000-1500 CE);
nature of ports and their networks; spread of Islam
along the maritime routes; material culture; global history
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Hamza Dudgeon
Educational Background:
2019 MA in Religious Studies
University of Chicago
2015 BA in Linguistics
St. Cloud State University
Research Interests:
Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh); Umayyad and 'Abbasid
political history; psychoanalytic theory; Critical Theory;
non-Western epistemologies and the Counter-Enlightenment;
decolonization; theory of religion; religious ethics; historiography;
Africana studies; structural and poststructural approaches to
Arabic philology; palaeography, codicology and papyrology
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Isaac Foster
Educational Background:
2012 MA in Music/Ethnomusic
School of Oriental and African Studies
2009 BA in Music/Jazz Studies
University of the Arts
Research Interests:
Role of music and musical practices in Islam; cultural and
religious contestations of authority and authenticity within
Islam; Persian and South Asian sama' rituals
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Seyed Hossein Hosseini Nassab
Educational Background:
2013 MA in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
University of Toronto
2011 BS in Religion; also Astrophysics
University of Toronto
Research Interests:
Islamic philosophy; Quranic studies, Sufism, Shi'ism
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Ilham Idrissi
Educational Background:
2002 MA in Diplomacy
University of Malta
2000 MA in International Relations
University of Amsterdam
1998 BA in Social Sciences
Al Akhawayn University
Research Interests:
Political Islam in the MENA region; evolution of mainstream
Islamist movements; Islamism, the State and Democracy;
Islamism, women's rights and social justice
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Rakshit Malik
Educational Background:
2021 MA in Medieval History
Jawaharlal Nehru University
2019 BA in History
St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi
Research Interests:
Gender, sexuality and the body in early modern South Asia;
gender and sexuality in Islam; feminist and queer theory;
disability studies; gender and religion in Northeast India
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Faiza Rahman
Educational Background:
2017 MA in History
National University of Singapore
2012 BSc in Political Science
Lahore University of Managment Sciences
Research Interests:
Subaltern studies; gender and sexuality studies; Islamic
daily life in contemporary Pakistan; Islam in South Asia;
ethno-historical approaches
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Michael Samuel
Educational Background:
2015 JD in Law
Boston College Law School
Research Interests:
Legal, social and political history of Mandate Palestine;
the role of law in national and statehood movements;
the relationship between religious and secular law
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Timothy Schum
Educational Background:
2015 MA in Islamic Studies
George Washington University
2013 BA in Philosophy
St. Johns College
Research Interests:
Aesthetics and philosophies of perception of Islamic
thought; mystical attitudes toward physical beauty in
connection with pre-modern religious corporeality in
the Islamic world
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Yusuf Unal
Educational Background:
2016 MA in History
Bogazici University
2012 BA in History and International Relations
TOBB University of Economics and Technology
Research Interests:
Ottoman-Safavid conflict and religio-political atmosphere
and corresponding polemic and apologetic literature in
the 16th century
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Syed Zaidi
Educational Background:
2015 MA in Islamic Studies
George Washington University
2012 BA in International Relations
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Research Interests:
The influence of Middle and Neoplatonic thought upon
early Islamic philosophical thought; Hermeticism, the
works of the Ikhwan al-Safa' and the School of Isfahan
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