Sana Haroon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1267005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sana Haroon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sana |
| FAMILY NAME | Haroon |
| SIGNATURE | HAROON S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2065-5907 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Creating an Oral History Archive of Government Work: The Women in Public Service in Pakistan Project
The Women in Public Service in Pakistan (WPSP) oral history project records the professional life histories of women employed in public sector institutions. Our aim in this article is twofold. First, we discuss the nature of public sector employment (sarkari nokri) and review the data and literature on women’s participation in public sector work in Pakistan. These sources reveal that the trajectory of women’s employment in the public sector has b…
Elisabeth Leake. Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan
Women’s participation in the Central Superior Services of Pakistan 1973–2020
Decentralization and efforts for inclusivity in Pakistan's public sector from 1973 led to the recruitment and advancement of women as officers of the newly constituted Central Superior Services (CSS) of the federal government of Pakistan. Quotas for women made government more diverse and representative, and educational and length of service benchmarks for recruitment and promotion made advancement more attainable and transparent. The increasing p…
Law and Muslim Political Thought in Late Colonial North India By Adeel Hussain
Journal Article Law and Muslim Political Thought in Late Colonial North India By Adeel Hussain Get access Law and Muslim Political Thought in Late Colonial North IndiaBy Adeel Hussain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), viii + 239 pp. Price HB £65.00. EAN 978–0192859778. Sana Haroon Sana Haroon University of Massachusetts Boston E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Is…
Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints beyond the Oxus and Indus . By Waleed Ziad
This book explores the teachings and activities of the Mujaddidi Sufi Fazl Ahmad and his spiritual and familial descendants to construct a cultural landscape stretching from Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan in late precolonial India to Bukhara and Khoqand under imperial Russia. Mujaddidis took their identity from their training in the teachings of Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi (d. 1624). Ziad argues that Mujaddidi sainthood constituted a “hidden caliphate” …
Boundaries of Belonging: Localities, Citizenship and Rights in India and Pakistan . By Sarah Ansari and William Gould
This coauthored book explores citizenship within the national boundaries of India and Pakistan by identifying and examining the responses of ordinary people to the conceptual frameworks created by the constitution and nationalism. This is urgent work given contemporary debates about rights in India and Pakistan and a valuable contribution to the field of South Asian history in which few models of border crossing studies exist. Each of the themati…
Tribal Elders and Societal Inequities in Pakistan's Northwestern Borderlands (1947-2018)
Pakistani tribal elders policed and governed their communities in the Pakhtun northwest until they were dismissed in 2018. This paper looks at the role of elders as community leaders and as jurists. The state gave privileges and issued threats to tribal elders, required them to carry out surveillance and community policing for borderland defense in their territories, and to serve on tribal courts called "jirgas" to sentence those accused by the s…
The spatial imaginaries of Mujaddidī Sufis and political integration in the northwestern borderlands of colonial India
This article identifies two comparable teaching and learning lines of the reformist Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidīyya Sufi order in the Indo-Afghan borderlands in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It describes the strategies of social engagement of the mobile mullās of the Akhund Ghaffūr-Haddā Mullā line and those of the pīrs of the khānqah (Sufi lodge)-centered line of Khwājāh Usmān Dāmanī. The concurrent establishment of these two Sufi lin…
Modern Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond
Journal Article Modern Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond Get access Modern Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and BeyondEdited by Katherine Pratt Ewing and Rosemary R Corbett (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Religion, Culture and Public Life), xii + 344 pp. Price PB £30.00. EAN 978–0231195751. Sana Haroon Sana Haroon University of Massachusetts Boston E-mail: [email protected] S…
Pan Islamic Connections: Transnational Networks Between South Asia and the GulfEdited by Christophe Jaffrelot and Laurence Louër
The Gulf, encompassing contemporary Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain, is a region of high geostrategic and economic relevance for South Asia. The editors of this collection add depth to our understanding of this relevance by locating the study of South Asia–Gulf connections in the growing field of study of Islamic and South Asian transnationalisms. They describe contemporary South Asian connections as emerging from an …
Custodianship of Shahidganj in colonial Lahore: Land, land use and the formation of religious community, 1850–1936
This article presents the history of the administration and management of the Lahore Shahidganj, a site that was disputed between Muslims and Sikhs, from 1850 to 1936. Drawing on a rare and detailed record of land bequest, management of the Shahidganj site by its ‘unreformed’ Sikh mahants from 1850 to 1928, and representations by Anjuman-i Islamia and Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), this article accounts for almost 100 years of hi…
Contextualizing the Deobandi Approach to Congregation and Management of Mosques in Colonial North India
A variety of Urdu texts published in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century India describe principles of financial management of mosques and the etiquettes of congregation. These texts demonstrate the existence of two incongruent approaches to the relationship between local city dwellers and the mosque. One set of texts sees mosques as places for the performance of imperial subjecthood, as serving the preferences of local Muslim congregations, a…
Hussain Ahmad Khan. Artisans, Sufis, Shrines: Colonial Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Punjab
Hussain Ahmad Khan. Artisans, Sufis, Shrines: Colonial Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Punjab." Asian Affairs, 47(2), pp. 313–314
Reformism and Orthodox Practice in Early Nineteenth-Century Muslim North India: Sayyid Ahmed Shaheed Reconsidered
This paper is a reconsideration of the career of the north-Indian Sayyid Ahmed Shaheed (1786–1831). I argue that Sayyid Ahmed used a Sufi devotional premise to understand and explain principles of orthodoxy. He also applied a concept of innate spiritual knowledge to reformed practice, suggesting that ordinary people, without scholarly training, could determine and apply the principles of orthodox practice of Islam for themselves and for others. H…
The Rise of Deobandi Islam in the North-West Frontier Province and its Implications in Colonial India and Pakistan 1914–1996
The commitment of North-West Frontier Province Pakhtun religious politics towards the quest for a society and state governed by religious leaders was directed through the colonial period, and into the national period, predominantly by the ulama known as Deobandis. These ulama took their title from the madrasa Darul Ulum Deoband in the United Provinces in north-India and came to prominence through championing Muslim interests in colonial NWFP. Aft…
Creating an Oral History Archive of Government Work: The Women in Public Service in Pakistan Project
The Women in Public Service in Pakistan (WPSP) oral history project records the professional life histories of women employed in public sector institutions. Our aim in this article is twofold. First, we discuss the nature of public sector employment (sarkari nokri) and review the data and literature on women’s participation in public sector work in Pakistan. These sources reveal that the trajectory of women’s employment in the public sector has b…
Women’s participation in the Central Superior Services of Pakistan 1973–2020
Decentralization and efforts for inclusivity in Pakistan's public sector from 1973 led to the recruitment and advancement of women as officers of the newly constituted Central Superior Services (CSS) of the federal government of Pakistan. Quotas for women made government more diverse and representative, and educational and length of service benchmarks for recruitment and promotion made advancement more attainable and transparent. The increasing p…
Modern Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond
Journal Article Modern Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond Get access Modern Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and BeyondEdited by Katherine Pratt Ewing and Rosemary R Corbett (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Religion, Culture and Public Life), xii + 344 pp. Price PB £30.00. EAN 978–0231195751. Sana Haroon Sana Haroon University of Massachusetts Boston E-mail: [email protected] S…
Custodianship of Shahidganj in colonial Lahore: Land, land use and the formation of religious community, 1850–1936
This article presents the history of the administration and management of the Lahore Shahidganj, a site that was disputed between Muslims and Sikhs, from 1850 to 1936. Drawing on a rare and detailed record of land bequest, management of the Shahidganj site by its ‘unreformed’ Sikh mahants from 1850 to 1928, and representations by Anjuman-i Islamia and Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), this article accounts for almost 100 years of hi…
Contextualizing the Deobandi Approach to Congregation and Management of Mosques in Colonial North India
A variety of Urdu texts published in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century India describe principles of financial management of mosques and the etiquettes of congregation. These texts demonstrate the existence of two incongruent approaches to the relationship between local city dwellers and the mosque. One set of texts sees mosques as places for the performance of imperial subjecthood, as serving the preferences of local Muslim congregations, a…
The Rise of Deobandi Islam in the North-West Frontier Province and its Implications in Colonial India and Pakistan 1914–1996
The commitment of North-West Frontier Province Pakhtun religious politics towards the quest for a society and state governed by religious leaders was directed through the colonial period, and into the national period, predominantly by the ulama known as Deobandis. These ulama took their title from the madrasa Darul Ulum Deoband in the United Provinces in north-India and came to prominence through championing Muslim interests in colonial NWFP. Aft…
The Rise of Deobandi Islam in the North-West Frontier Province and its Implications in Colonial India and Pakistan 1914–1996
The commitment of North-West Frontier Province Pakhtun religious politics towards the quest for a society and state governed by religious leaders was directed through the colonial period, and into the national period, predominantly by the ulama known as Deobandis. These ulama took their title from the madrasa Darul Ulum Deoband in the United Provinces in north-India and came to prominence through championing Muslim interests in colonial NWFP. Aft…
Reformism and Orthodox Practice in Early Nineteenth-Century Muslim North India: Sayyid Ahmed Shaheed Reconsidered
This paper is a reconsideration of the career of the north-Indian Sayyid Ahmed Shaheed (1786–1831). I argue that Sayyid Ahmed used a Sufi devotional premise to understand and explain principles of orthodoxy. He also applied a concept of innate spiritual knowledge to reformed practice, suggesting that ordinary people, without scholarly training, could determine and apply the principles of orthodox practice of Islam for themselves and for others. H…
Contextualizing the Deobandi Approach to Congregation and Management of Mosques in Colonial North India
A variety of Urdu texts published in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century India describe principles of financial management of mosques and the etiquettes of congregation. These texts demonstrate the existence of two incongruent approaches to the relationship between local city dwellers and the mosque. One set of texts sees mosques as places for the performance of imperial subjecthood, as serving the preferences of local Muslim congregations, a…
Hussain Ahmad Khan. Artisans, Sufis, Shrines: Colonial Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Punjab
Hussain Ahmad Khan. Artisans, Sufis, Shrines: Colonial Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Punjab." Asian Affairs, 47(2), pp. 313–314
Custodianship of Shahidganj in colonial Lahore: Land, land use and the formation of religious community, 1850–1936
This article presents the history of the administration and management of the Lahore Shahidganj, a site that was disputed between Muslims and Sikhs, from 1850 to 1936. Drawing on a rare and detailed record of land bequest, management of the Shahidganj site by its ‘unreformed’ Sikh mahants from 1850 to 1928, and representations by Anjuman-i Islamia and Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), this article accounts for almost 100 years of hi…
Pan Islamic Connections: Transnational Networks Between South Asia and the GulfEdited by Christophe Jaffrelot and Laurence Louër
The Gulf, encompassing contemporary Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Iraq, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain, is a region of high geostrategic and economic relevance for South Asia. The editors of this collection add depth to our understanding of this relevance by locating the study of South Asia–Gulf connections in the growing field of study of Islamic and South Asian transnationalisms. They describe contemporary South Asian connections as emerging from an …
The spatial imaginaries of Mujaddidī Sufis and political integration in the northwestern borderlands of colonial India
This article identifies two comparable teaching and learning lines of the reformist Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidīyya Sufi order in the Indo-Afghan borderlands in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It describes the strategies of social engagement of the mobile mullās of the Akhund Ghaffūr-Haddā Mullā line and those of the pīrs of the khānqah (Sufi lodge)-centered line of Khwājāh Usmān Dāmanī. The concurrent establishment of these two Sufi lin…
Modern Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond
Journal Article Modern Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond Get access Modern Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and BeyondEdited by Katherine Pratt Ewing and Rosemary R Corbett (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Religion, Culture and Public Life), xii + 344 pp. Price PB £30.00. EAN 978–0231195751. Sana Haroon Sana Haroon University of Massachusetts Boston E-mail: [email protected] S…
Boundaries of Belonging: Localities, Citizenship and Rights in India and Pakistan . By Sarah Ansari and William Gould
This coauthored book explores citizenship within the national boundaries of India and Pakistan by identifying and examining the responses of ordinary people to the conceptual frameworks created by the constitution and nationalism. This is urgent work given contemporary debates about rights in India and Pakistan and a valuable contribution to the field of South Asian history in which few models of border crossing studies exist. Each of the themati…
Tribal Elders and Societal Inequities in Pakistan's Northwestern Borderlands (1947-2018)
Pakistani tribal elders policed and governed their communities in the Pakhtun northwest until they were dismissed in 2018. This paper looks at the role of elders as community leaders and as jurists. The state gave privileges and issued threats to tribal elders, required them to carry out surveillance and community policing for borderland defense in their territories, and to serve on tribal courts called "jirgas" to sentence those accused by the s…
Women’s participation in the Central Superior Services of Pakistan 1973–2020
Decentralization and efforts for inclusivity in Pakistan's public sector from 1973 led to the recruitment and advancement of women as officers of the newly constituted Central Superior Services (CSS) of the federal government of Pakistan. Quotas for women made government more diverse and representative, and educational and length of service benchmarks for recruitment and promotion made advancement more attainable and transparent. The increasing p…
Law and Muslim Political Thought in Late Colonial North India By Adeel Hussain
Journal Article Law and Muslim Political Thought in Late Colonial North India By Adeel Hussain Get access Law and Muslim Political Thought in Late Colonial North IndiaBy Adeel Hussain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), viii + 239 pp. Price HB £65.00. EAN 978–0192859778. Sana Haroon Sana Haroon University of Massachusetts Boston E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Is…
Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints beyond the Oxus and Indus . By Waleed Ziad
This book explores the teachings and activities of the Mujaddidi Sufi Fazl Ahmad and his spiritual and familial descendants to construct a cultural landscape stretching from Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan in late precolonial India to Bukhara and Khoqand under imperial Russia. Mujaddidis took their identity from their training in the teachings of Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi (d. 1624). Ziad argues that Mujaddidi sainthood constituted a “hidden caliphate” …
Creating an Oral History Archive of Government Work: The Women in Public Service in Pakistan Project
The Women in Public Service in Pakistan (WPSP) oral history project records the professional life histories of women employed in public sector institutions. Our aim in this article is twofold. First, we discuss the nature of public sector employment (sarkari nokri) and review the data and literature on women’s participation in public sector work in Pakistan. These sources reveal that the trajectory of women’s employment in the public sector has b…
Elisabeth Leake. Afghan Crucible: The Soviet Invasion and the Making of Modern Afghanistan
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