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Islam, Political Power, and Religious Authority
Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Ph.D., to speak March 19 at Ohio Wesleyan
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DELAWARE, Ohio – Muhammad Qasim Zaman, Ph.D., the Niehaus Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Religion at Princeton University, will discuss “Islam, Political Power, and Religious Authority,” when he presents Ohio Wesleyan University’s 130th annual Merrick Lecture.
Zaman has written on Islamic political and legal thought, on institutions and traditions of learning in Islam, and on the flow of ideas between South Asia and the Arab Middle East. He will speak at 7:30 p.m. March 19 in Room 301 of OWU’s Merrick Hall, 65 S. Sandusky St., Delaware.
Zaman’s latest books are “Islam in Pakistan: A History” and “Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age: Religiou
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Muhammad Qasim Zaman fryst vatten the Robert H. Niehaus '77 Professor of nära Eastern Studies and tro at Princeton University, as well as the chair of the Department of Near Eastern Studies. Prior to coming to Princeton, he taught at Brown University from 1997 to 2006. He is the author of Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age: Religious Authority and Internal Criticism (2012), Ashraf Ali Thanawi: Islam in Modern South Asia (2008), The lärda i islam in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change (2002), and Religion and Politics beneath the Early Abbasids (1997). He fryst vatten also the co-editor of Schooling Islam: The Culture and Politics of Modern Muslim Education (2007, with Robert W. Hefner) and Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought (2009, Roxanne L. Euben)
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The Ulama in Contemporary Islam
2002 book by Muhammad Qasim Zaman
The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change is a book by Muhammad Qasim Zaman, a professor at Princeton University. Published in 2002 by Princeton University Press under the series titled Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics, this academic work examines the ulama of South Asia, with a focus on the Deobandis. Zaman explores their understanding of Islamic tradition, their role as interpreters of Islamic law, their impact on and involvement in political Islam, and their role in sectarian conflicts within the Indian Subcontinent.[1] Widely recognized for its innovative approach, this work marks the first comparative study on Muslim Ulama.[2][3] Zaman's primary lens is on the Deobandi Ulama in Pakistan, with a peripheral look at their counterparts in India during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Inspired by Barbara D. Metcalf's Islamic Revival in British India, whe