Artefacts of Devotion
Michel Boivin is a distinguished scholar of South Asian history with particular interest in the study of Sindh. He was trained at Sorbonne University, Paris (France) in Islamic Studies and Contemporary History. He is currently Research Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies, CNRS-EHESS and also teaches history of South Asia at the University of Lumière Lyon 2 and University of Savoie. He also heads an interdisciplinary study group working on Sehwan Sharif and is Director of the Centre of Social Sciences Karachi (CSSK), created in 2011. Michel Boivin’s focus is on the social and cultural evolution of Muslim communities from British colonization to the post-partition period and his fieldwork is mainly restricted to the southern part of the Indus valley. He has published a number of books as author and editor and has written about seventy articles published in leading academic journals. His last work was edited with Matthew Cook, Interpreting the Sindh World: Essays on Culture and History (Karachi: OUP, 2010) and a forthcoming book is devoted to Antinomian Sufism in the Indo-Pakistan Subcontinent: Lal Shahbaz Qalandar and the tradition of the Qalandariyya, and published in French by Editions du Cerf, Paris.
ISBN | 9780199063215 |
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Weight in kg | 0.935 |
Rights | World |
Year of Publication | 2011 |
Binding | Hardback |
Pages | 180 pages |
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