Dr. Faridah Zaman

Biography

Faridah Zaman is an Associate Professor of History and a Fellow Tutor in Modern History at Somerville College, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on political intellectual history within global imperial contexts, exploring the role of religion in the development of historical ideas and concepts related to temporality. Zaman's main research concerns revolve around Muslim political activists, religious scholars, and journalists from early twentieth-century British India, examining how Muslim thought evolved in response to global war, political revolution, and imperial decline. Her work has been featured in notable publications such as Modern Intellectual History and the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. She authored a monograph titled 'Young Muhammadans' and has investigated the intersections of British left politics, imperialism, and Islam during the twentieth century. Her recent publication in Twentieth Century British History delves into the relationship between sovereignty and socialist thought. Zaman has engaged with themes of imperial visual culture, memory, nostalgia, and Muslim historiography throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, making her research accessible through platforms like the Journal of History Ideas blog and Fabian Review. She supervises research on the connections between Britain and the wider world from 1750 onwards, particularly concerning historical ideas.

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