Shahzad Bashir is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University.

Biography

Bashir obtained his BA from Amherst College, and his MA, MPhil and PhD from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

. His works are concerned with history and historiography,

Persian poetry Persian literature ( fa, ادبیات فارسی, Adabiyâte fârsi, ) comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans over two-and-a-half millennia. Its sources h ...

Sufism Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, ...

and

Shi'ism Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his successor (''khalīfa'') and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, most ...

, messianic movements originating in Islamic contexts, and religious representations of corporeality. He is the associate editor of the journal ''History and Theory'', the editor of the book series ''Islamic Humanities'' (University of California Press), and the coeditor of ''Islamicate Intellectual History'' (Brill) with Judith Pfeiffer and Heidrun Eichner.

Works

* ''Fazlallah Astarababi and the Hurufis'' * ''Messianic Hopes and Mystical Visions: The Nūrbakhshīya Between Medieval and Modern Islam'' * ''Sufi Bodies: Religion and Society in Medieval Islam'' * ''Dance as Third Space: Interreligious, Intercultural, and Interdisciplinary Debates on Dance and Religion(s)''

References

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