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ABOUT
SherAli Tareen is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Frankln and Marshall College PA; he received his PhD in Islamic Studies from Duke University. His work focuses on Muslim reform movements in 19th century North India and on Hindu-Muslim relations in colonial India. He is currently working on a book project entitled "Islam and the Ethics of Authenticity: Tradition, Innovation, and Heresy" that explores intra-Muslim polemics on the limits of "heretical innovation" in South Asian Islam.
Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Islamic Studies
South Asian Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
India
Islamic World
Pakistan
Specialties
Islamic Law; South Asian Islam
Muslim Reform Movements
19th Century
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Persian (advanced)
Pashto (intermediate)
Urdu (native)
Education
PhD
| 2012
| Religion
| Duke University
Abstracts
The Prophet Muhammad Contested: Competing Imaginaries of Normativity in Muslim Colonial India
