The Dream of Pakistan and the unIslamic Other

(PhD, University of Chicago) is Professor of Religion and Director of the South Asia Institute at Columbia University and Professor Emerita of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. Among her books are Arguing Sainthood: Modernity, Psychoanalysis and Islam (Duke), which focused on debates about Sufism and Islamic reform in Pakistan, Stolen Honor: Stigmatizing Muslims Men in Berlin (Stanford), and Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond, edited with Rosemary Corbett (Columbia, 2020). Her current research examines the effects of shifting policies toward Sufism on local subjectivities and their implications for understanding how Islam is evolving as a living religious tradition within a fraught global order.

(PhD, Columbia University) is Lecturer in the Religion Department and MA Director of the South Asia Institute at Columbia University. Before working at the South Asia Institute, he completed his PhD in Columbia's Religion Department, where his dissertation was based on ethnographic research conducted in the city of Lucknow (India). His current research focuses on the politics of Sufi saint shrines in north Indian Muslim communities and the anthropology of money. He is currently working on his first book, which is tentatively titled Din and Duniya: Debating Shrines, Sufism, and Money in North India.