Dr. Muhammad Zaman

Biography

Muhammad Qasim Zaman joined the Department of Religion in 2006. His research focuses on the relationship between religious and political institutions in medieval and modern Islam, as well as social and legal thought in the modern Muslim world. He explores various institutions and traditions of learning in Islam, and the flow of ideas between South Asia and the Arab Middle East. He is the author of several works, including 'Religion and Politics in the Early Abbasids' (1997), 'Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change' (2002), 'Ashraf Ali Thanawi: Islam in Modern South Asia' (2008), and 'Islam in Pakistan: A History' (2018). He also co-edited with Robert W. Hefner 'Schooling Islam: Culture, Politics, and Modern Muslim Education' (2007) and with Roxanne L. Euben 'Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought' (2009). Zaman served as associate editor for the 'Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought' (2013). He is currently working on a book about South Asia and the wider Muslim world during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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