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Incoming Member

SherAli K Tareen

Affiliation

Historical Studies

Field of Study

Early Modern and Modern Islam
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

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