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Shahzad Bashir, the Lysbeth Warren Anderson Professor in Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University, will speak on “Islamic Futures: Attempts at a History of Conceptual Frameworks,” Monday, Nov. 30, at 5 p.m. in Pryune Lecture Hall (115 Fayerweather Hall), sponsored by the Hamilton Fund and the Religion Department.

Professor Bashir specializes in Islamic studies, with a particular interest in the intellectual and social histories of Persianate societies of Iran and Central and South Asia circa 14th century CE to the present. His published work is concerned with the study of Sufism and Shi’ism, messianic movements originating in Islamic contexts, representation of corporeality in hagiographic texts and Persian miniature paintings, religious developments during the Timurid and Safavid periods, and modern transformations of Islamic societies.  

He is currently working on two major projects. The first is a book entitled Islamic Times: Conceptualizing Pasts and Futures. The second project is tentatively entitled Building the Past: Memory, Metaphor, and Reality in Persianate Islamic Societies. Both these projects engage contemporary academic debates regarding language, historiography and history on the basis of materials of Islamic provenance. Most recently, Professor Bashir was named an inaugural Andrew F. Carnegie Fellow for the academic year 2015-16.

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