Shahzad Bashir
About
Associate Editor of History and Theory
Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities, Professor of History and Religious Studies, Brown University
Shahzad Bashir specializes in the intellectual and social histories of Islamic contexts in Iran and Central and South Asia circa fourteenth century CE to the present. His work touches on a range of topics: history and temporality, Sufism and Shi’ism, messianic movements, corporeality, Persian and Urdu literature, and modern transformations of Islamic societies.
His current major publications are The Market in Poetry in the Persian World in the Cambridge Elements series The Global Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and the digital monograph A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures (MIT Press, forthcoming 2022). His work has been supported by fellowships from the Carnegie Corporation, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Stanford Humanities Center, ACLS, and the NEH.