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Section de langues et civilisations slaves et d'As
Faculté des Lettres-Université de Lausanne
Anthropole 4072
Lausanne 1015
Switzerland
ABOUT
Blain Auer is Professor of the Study of Islam in South Asia at the University of Lausanne in the Department of Slavic and South Asian Languages and Civilizations. He specializes in Islam in the context of premodern South Asia. In particular, he studies the representations of Islamic authority exhibited through the use of the Qur’an, Hadith, exegesis, and history writing produced during the Delhi Sultanate. A second area of research focuses on the modern ritual, pilgrimage, and relics connected with the burial places of the special dead in Islam. His book titled Symbols of Authority in Medieval Islam: History, Religion, and Muslim Legitimacy in the Delhi Sultanate, was published by I.B. Tauris in 2012. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in 2009.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
Colonialism
Historiography
Islamic Studies
Maghreb Studies
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
South Asian Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Afghanistan
India
Iran
Morocco
Pakistan
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Urdu (fluent)
Persian (advanced)
Hindi (fluent)
Education
PhD
| 2009
| Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
| Harvard University
MA
| 2004
| Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
| Harvard University
MA
| 1999
| South Asian Studies
| University of Wisconsin-Madison
BA
| 1991
| South Asian Languages and Literatures
| University of California-Berkeley
Abstracts
The Origins and Evolution of Sufi Communities in South Asia Revisited
Intellectual Exchange, Travel and the Transmission of Knowledge across Central and South Asia of the 12th-13th Centuries
Islamic Genealogies of Prophets and Persian Kings
