The story of how Arab editors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries revolutionized Islamic literature

In this groundbreaking study, SherAli Tareen presents the most comprehensive and theoretically engaged work to date on what is arguably the most long-running...

By Sharjeel Imam This address by Sharjeel Imam represents an instructive addition to contemporary Muslim prison literature. As a pedagogical text that mobilizes and illuminates Urdu poetry at the...

In this groundbreaking book, SherAli Tareen explores how leading South Asian Muslim scholars imagined and contested the possibilities and dangers of Hindu–Muslim friendship from the mid-eighteenth to...

Abstract The text introduced and translated below represents a fragment from the narration and proceedings of an interreligious polemical festival known as “The Festival of Deciding (or Recognizing)...

This magisterial monograph brings razor-sharp focus to the analysis of Islamic discourses on Hindu–Muslim friendship in modern South Asia. In a broader sen

Among the central achievements of this book is the way it conducts an intersectional analysis that takes the conceptual glue of the triangular encounter of debility, capacity, and disability to put…

Friendship—particularly interreligious friendship—offers both promise and peril. After the end of Muslim political sovereignty in South Asia, how did Mus... | CUP

The past and future of India always redeems the violent exclusions in the present.

Episode · Radio ReOrient · In this episode of Radio ReOrient, Salman Sayyid and Sher Ali Tareen converse with Shehla Khan about the political, economic, and constitutional crisis that has been...

An introduction in Urdu to the key concepts and categories of critical secularism studies, with a focus on the thought and writings of Professor Saba Mahmood...

In this lecture, author SherAli Tareen discusses his book "Perilous Intimacies:Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire" (CUP 2023) with with young scho...

In this podcast, we speak to Professor SherAli Tareen. He is the Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College and author of Defe...

In today’s world, the lines between Europe and the Middle East, between Christian Europeans and Muslim immigrants in their midst, seem to be hardening. Alarmist editorials compare the arrival of...

Friendship—particularly interreligious friendship—offers both promise and peril. After the end of Muslim political sovereignty in South Asia, how did Mus... | CUP

University of Notre Dame Press This forum on SherAli Tareen’s landmark study, Defending Muhammad in Modernity, illuminates several key terms in the study

Review of Iqbal Sevea's The Political Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

Although the towns of Aligarh and Deoband are located in the same Northern Indian province of Uttar Pradesh, the epistemic distance separating these institut...

Second Edition

By SherAli Tareen The reviewer has made no effort to engage or even describe the main questions, actors, conceptual interventions, chapters, or key categories of the book, a task one might minimally...

With the loss of Muslim political sovereignty in nineteenth-century South Asia, the pioneers of the Barelvī and Deobandī orientations and their predecessors articulated and avidly fought for two...

Defending Muḥammad in Modernity

Why must we employ Western frameworks and categories of analysis like political theology to examine indigenous theological discourses and debates?

In this groundbreaking study, SherAli Tareen presents the most comprehensive and theoretically engaged work to date on what is arguably the most long-running...

Habib University, ‎کراچی، پاکستان‎. 163,708 likes · 604 talking about this · 10,202 were here. Habib University is a liberal arts & sciences university.

Evidence of police excesses emerges after university administrators ordered sweeps at anti-war encampments at two New York City campuses

Episode · Radio ReOrient · In this episode of the Radio ReOrient podcast, Dr. Shehla Khan, Dr. Sher Ali Tareen, and Salman Sayyid discuss the ongoing crisis in Pakistan under Gaza’s looming shadow ....

In this conversation Prof. SherAli Tareen joins Dr. Saad Ismail for a succinct survey of key theoretical motifs in Prof. Tareen's most recent ground-breakin...

International Quran Conference || The Quran & The Economic Activities ||Dr. Sher Ali Tareen Associate Professor, Franklin & Marshall College, USA

In South Asia, as elsewhere, the category of ‘the public’ has come under increased scholarly and popular scrutiny in recent years. To better understand this current conjuncture, we need a fuller...

Controversies about the Prophet’s status rehearse a political as much as a theological paradox, since the very effort to expel sovereignty from human society while preserving it elsewhere sets the...