Rethinking Islam Today

SherAli Tareen (Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin & Marshall College) joins us to discuss his intellectual trajectory and his approach to studying debates within the Muslim tradition. This approach is best illustrated in his recent book "Defending Muhammad in Modernity" (2019, University of Notre Dame Press) which reanimates the contours of the infamous Barelvi-Deobandi polemic as a contest between competing political theologies. In 2020, the book was awarded the American Institute of Pakistan Studies book prize. Follow this link to watch SherAli's recent talk at our ongoing seminar series on Muslim thought in South Asia: https://youtu.be/FH9lHQ33aeg To learn more about the seminar and the work of the Centre of Islamic Studies, please visit our website.  * Opening soundscape from a recording of Sufi dhikr in Omdurman, Sudan (creative commons). Cover art by Aman Aheer (amanaheer.com).