Shiʿism between Pakistan and the Middle East (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019), Islamic Networks and Muslim Civilization Series. “Reclaiming the Citizen: Christian and Shi‘i Engagements with the Pakistani State”, special issue “Religious Minorities in Pakistan”, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 43,1 (2020): “Faded Networks: The Overestimated Saudi Legacy of anti-Shi‘i Sectarianism in Pakistan”, Global Discourse 9,4 (2019): 703-715, (Together with Maria-Magdalena Fuchs), “Introduction: Religious Minorities in Pakistan: Social Belonging, Identities, and Citizenship,” special issue “Religious Minorities in Pakistan”, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 43,1 (2020): 1-17, “Legalised Pedigrees: Sayyids and Shiʿi Islam in Pakistan,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (2020, FirstView): 1-16,.“Casting Aside the Clutches of Conjecture: The Striving for Religious Certainty at Aligarh”, Islamic Law and Society (2020, Advance Articles): 1-25,. ![]() In May 2019, I was elected a member of the Junge Akademie. My dissertation “Relocating the Centers of Shīʿī Islam: Religious Authority, Reform, and the Limits of the Transnational in Colonial India and Pakistan” was advised by Prof. ![]() I completed my PhD in September 2015 at Princeton University's Department of Near Eastern Studies. My work draws on materials in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu.īefore coming to Freiburg in October 2017, I was a Research Fellow in Islamic Studies at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge. Fieldwork over the last couple of years has led me to Egypt, Pakistan, India, Iran, Iraq, Tunisia, and Lebanon. I focus on religious authority, the global history of the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79, transnational Shi’ism, sectarianism and jihad, Islamic political thought, as well as Islamism and leftist movements in the Muslim world. ![]() My research revolves around the travel of ideas between West, Central, and South Asia. I am interested in how the Islamic scholarly tradition is debated and negotiated in modern and contemporary Muslim societies. I am a Lecturer in Islamic and Middle East Studies at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany.
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