Shaheer Ahmed

Educational Background:

2021 MA in Arabic and Islamic Studies
Georgetown University

2018 BS in Social Sciences and Liberal Arts
Institute of Business Administration, Karachi

Research Interests:
Revival and reform movements in South Asia; Islamic law
in the post-classical period (1000-1800 CE); Indian Ocean
studies; secularism and secularity

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

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

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:
Intellectual history of Islam; authority in Islam; intersection of
Islamic philosophy, mysticism, law, and Shia Islam; contemporary
Shia Islam in the Middle East and the West; Islamic finance

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

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

Adnan Merja

Educational Background:

2020 MA in Religious Studies
Hartford International University

2015 BA in Islamic Studies
Beder University

Research Interests:
Muslim intellectual thought; Islamic philosophy and theology
in both classical and post-classical periods; Sufism; Qur'anic
studies; Islamic historiography; ethics

Perdana Aysha Puteri

Educational background:

2019 MA in Religious and Cross-Cultural Studies
Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta

2017 BA in Qur'anic Studies
State Islamic University of Surabaya

Research Interests:
Contemporary Indonesian Islam; Anthropology of Islam;
gender studies; Islam and media; material culture

Kareem Rosshandler

Educational background:

2018 MA in Middle East Studies
University of Chicago

2014 BA in International Affairs
George Washington University

Research Interests:
Qur'anic exegesis; relationships between the Qur'an and Hadith;
comparative religion; pre-Islamic Arabian history

Anuj Sah

Educational Background:

2021 MA in Modern History
Jawaharlal Nehru University

2019 BA with Honors in History
Ramjas College, University of Delhi

Research Interests:
Histories of LGBTQ+ communities; socio-cultural-political worlds
of Islamicate and Persinate lands; society, culture and politics of
medieval and early modern South Asia; queer theory; micro-
histories and history of mentalities

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