Historical Dictionary of the Sufi Culture of Sindh in Pakistan and India

Michel Boivin was trained at Sorbonne University, Paris (France) in Islamic Studies, Contemporary History, and Ethnology. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies, CNRS-EHESS. He also teaches history and anthropology, and is External Examiner for PhD programmes at the University of Karachi and University of Punjab, both in General History. Michel Boivin’s work is focused on the social and cultural evolution of Muslim communities of the Indian subcontinent, from British colonization to the post-Partition period. His fieldwork is mainly centred on the southern part of the Indus Valley. Boivin is a published author and editor. He has written numerous articles in leading academic journals. His last work in English was Artefacts of Devotion (Karachi: OUP, 2012) and in French, it was The Agha Khan and the Khojas: Shiite Islam and Social Dynamics in the Indian Subcontinent (1843-1954) (Paris: Karthala, 2013).