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Incoming Member
SherAli K Tareen
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
Early Modern and Modern Islam
Website
SherAli K. Tareen is the author of the award-winning book “Defending Muhammad in Modernity” (2020) and more recently, “Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire” (2023). At IAS, he will be working on his third book, an intellectual history and biography of the preeminent eighteenth century scholar Shah Walyullah (d. 1762).
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Degrees
Duke University
Ph.D.
2012
Honors
2021
Finalist, American Academy of Religion Book Award
2020
Winner, American Institute of Pakistan Studies Book Prize
Appointments
Franklin and Marshall College
2024
Professor of Religious Studies