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azfar moin

Email:  amoin@smu.edu 

 

Assistant Professor

  • History of South Asia
     

Educational Background

  • Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2010
  • M.A. The University of Texas at Austin, 2005
  • B.A. The University of Texas at Austin, 2003

 

 

Awards and Service (Selected)

  • 2009       Rackham Humanities Dissertation Fellowship, University of Michigan
  • 2008       Pre-Doctoral Research Fellowship, American Institute of Pakistan Studies
  • 2008       Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship (declined), US Department of Education
  • 2008       Rackham Humanities Research Fellowship, University of Michigan
  • 2005       Rackham Regents Fellowship, University of Michigan
  • 2004       Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, UT Austin
  • 2003       Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship,  UT Austin 

Books and Essays

  • The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam (1400-1700). New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming.
  •  “Painted Rituals: The Sacred Art of Jahangir.” In Muslim Voices: Community and the Self in South Asia, edited by Sandria B. Freitag, David Gilmartin, and Usha Sanyal. New Delhi: Yoda Press, forthcoming.
  • “Challenging the Mughal Emperor: The Islamic Millennium according to ‘Abd al-Qadir Badayuni.” In Islam in South Asia in Practice, edited by Barbara Metcalf. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.
  • Jalal, Al-e Ahmad. A Stone on a Grave. Translated from Persian into English by Azfar Moin. Edited by M. R. Ghanoonparvar. Los Angeles: Mazda Publications, 2008.
  •  “Partisan Dreams and Prophetic Visions: Shi‘i Critique in al-Mas‘udi's History of the Abbasids.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 127, no. 4 (2007).

More information 

http://faculty.smu.edu/amoin/

last updated 10/11