Dr. Michel Boivin is Research Fellow at the Centre for Indian and - TopicsExpress



          

Dr. Michel Boivin is Research Fellow at the Centre for Indian and South Asian Studies (CNRS-EHESS) in Paris and he teaches Contemporary History of South Asia. After training in contemporary History and Islamic Studies, he specialized on the 19th-20th centuries Muslim societies of South Asia. He devoted a number of years to the study of Ismaili communities of this area, from which four books were published and numerous academic papers. Later on, he shifted to Sufism as expressed in the “Sindhi world”. The “Sindhi world” includes the Pakistan province of Sindh, as well as part of Western India and also the Sindhi diaspora (See M. Boivin and M.C. Cook (ed.), 2010, Interpreting the Sindhi World: Essays on Society and History (Karachi: OUP,). His last book in English is Artifacts of Devotion: A Sufi Repertoire of the Qalandariyya in Sehwan Sharif, Sindh, Pakistan (Karachi: Oxford University Press), while in French, it is Le soufisme antinomien dans le sous-continent indien. Lal Shahbaz Qalandar et la tradition de la Qalandariyya (Paris, Les Editions du Cerf), both published in 2011.
Posted on: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 05:34:41 +0000

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