Shahzad Bashir
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3699465 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Shahzad Bashir |
| PRENOMES | Shahzad |
| SOBRENOME | Bashir |
| ASSINATURA | BASHIR S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Brown University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7726-888X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Postscript
This essay is an afterword to the special section “Beyond Received Frameworks: Methodologies of the Everyday in South Asian Islam.” It reflects on how the essays included in the section deploy the “everyday” as a broadly diversified category to shed light on material and literary artifacts pertaining to Islamic social contexts in South Asia
Colonial India in a Crusades Mirror
Composing History for the Web
I recently published A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures, a digital book that presents a new way to understand Islam. This article describes the process and conceptual work that went into designing the book's interface. It emphasizes that hypertext enabled through digital means is not intrinsically more dynamic than print since work in both forms requires equally intensive hermeneutical effort. However, the digital realm provides a more ex…
The Living Dead of Tabriz
Reading the self in Persian prose and poetry
Afterword
This section consists of four case studies in which human selves are either observed or theorised as being subject to disaggregation.Each article highlights a distinctive facet of the interdependence between processes of individuation and dividuation, whereby we see our collective theoretical interest play out in diverse sociohistorical settings.Juxtaposing data spread between sixteenth, seventeenth, and nineteenth-century Europe and seventeenth-…
Everlasting Doubt
Utilizing treatments of uncertainty regarding history in four major Arabic and Persian works (Ṭabarī, Bīrūnī, Badāʾūnī, and Abū l-Fażl), this article treats Islam as an ever-changing set of arguments rather than a panoply of beliefs and practices. ‘Islamic history’ is internally varied, without necessary universality or internal cohesion. The Islamic case underscores the methodological point that the interrelationship between religion and history…
The World as a Hat
This chapter argues that the question of symbols and their interpretation by religious actors holds a particularly important place while considering ideas and practices pertaining to Persianate societies during the approximate period 1400-1700 C.E. The centerpiece of the chapter is a Persian work. Entitled a very generic Ṭarīq al-irshād , the work indicates its author to be a certain Hāshim b. Aḥmad b.Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Najafī, The work is co…
The Origins and Rhetorical Evolution of the Term Qizilbāsh in Persianate Literature
This essay traces the use of the term Qizilbāsh in select literature in Persian produced during the approximate period 1490-1700. The survey indicates that the term became the standard name given to devotee-soldiers of the Ṣafavid dynasty only gradually over the sixteenth century. Moreover, the term acquired symbolic meanings and direct connection to the time of Shaykh Ḥaydar (d. 1488) and Shāh Ismāʿīl (d. 1524) only in the seventeenth century. T…
On Islamic Time
This article argues that the academic representation of Islamic history as a single timeline, which was established in the nineteenth century and continues to predominate to the present, is a primary issue restricting fruitful readings of Islamic historical materials. Utilizing insights in thinking about history that favor multiple temporalities, I suggest that scholars in Islamic studies can expand the possibilities of their work by paying atten…
Under the Drones
In the West, media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan is framed by military and political concerns, resulting in a simplistic picture of ageless barbarity, terrorist safe havens, and peoples in need of either punishment or salvation. Under the Drones looks beyond this limiting view to investigate real people on the ground, and to analyze the political, social, and economic forces that shape their lives. Understanding the complexity of life alon…
Under the Drones
Under the drones
From the publisher. In the West, media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan is framed by military and political concerns, resulting in a simplistic picture of ageless barbarity, terrorist safe havens, and peoples in need of either punishment or salvation. Under the Drones looks beyond this limiting view to investigate real people on the ground, and to analyze the political, social, and economic forces that shape their lives. Understanding the com…
Sufi Bodies
Between 1300 and 1500 C.E. a new form of Sufi Islam took hold among central Islamic peoples, joining individuals through widespread networks resembling today's prominent paths and orders. Understanding contemporary Sufism requires a sophisticated analysis of these formative years. Moving beyond a straight account of leaders and movements, Shahzad Bashir weaves a rich history around the depiction of bodily actions by Sufi masters and disciples, pr…
Islamic Tradition and Celibacy
The prophet Muhammad served as a model for those entering into marriage and celibacy is rejected as a human invention, although the Islamic tradition embodies exceptions with Sufism and its more negative attitudes toward the human body. Sufi groups used celibacy as a form of social protest. There is also a relation between forced celibacy and political power during the medieval period. In addition to certain Sufi groups, eunuchs represented anoth…
Shah Ismaʿil and the Qizilbash
Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs
Mediaeval Isma `ili History and Thought . Farhad Daftary
Enshrining Divinity
The Renewal of Islamic Law
The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution
On Islamic Time
This article argues that the academic representation of Islamic history as a single timeline, which was established in the nineteenth century and continues to predominate to the present, is a primary issue restricting fruitful readings of Islamic historical materials. Utilizing insights in thinking about history that favor multiple temporalities, I suggest that scholars in Islamic studies can expand the possibilities of their work by paying atten…
Shah Ismaʿil and the Qizilbash
The Origins and Rhetorical Evolution of the Term Qizilbāsh in Persianate Literature
This essay traces the use of the term Qizilbāsh in select literature in Persian produced during the approximate period 1490-1700. The survey indicates that the term became the standard name given to devotee-soldiers of the Ṣafavid dynasty only gradually over the sixteenth century. Moreover, the term acquired symbolic meanings and direct connection to the time of Shaykh Ḥaydar (d. 1488) and Shāh Ismāʿīl (d. 1524) only in the seventeenth century. T…
The Living Dead of Tabriz
Enshrining Divinity
The Renewal of Islamic Law
The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution
Enshrining Divinity
Mediaeval Isma `ili History and Thought . Farhad Daftary
Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs
Shah Ismaʿil and the Qizilbash
Islamic Tradition and Celibacy
The prophet Muhammad served as a model for those entering into marriage and celibacy is rejected as a human invention, although the Islamic tradition embodies exceptions with Sufism and its more negative attitudes toward the human body. Sufi groups used celibacy as a form of social protest. There is also a relation between forced celibacy and political power during the medieval period. In addition to certain Sufi groups, eunuchs represented anoth…
Sufi Bodies
Between 1300 and 1500 C.E. a new form of Sufi Islam took hold among central Islamic peoples, joining individuals through widespread networks resembling today's prominent paths and orders. Understanding contemporary Sufism requires a sophisticated analysis of these formative years. Moving beyond a straight account of leaders and movements, Shahzad Bashir weaves a rich history around the depiction of bodily actions by Sufi masters and disciples, pr…
Under the Drones
In the West, media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan is framed by military and political concerns, resulting in a simplistic picture of ageless barbarity, terrorist safe havens, and peoples in need of either punishment or salvation. Under the Drones looks beyond this limiting view to investigate real people on the ground, and to analyze the political, social, and economic forces that shape their lives. Understanding the complexity of life alon…
Under the Drones
Under the drones
From the publisher. In the West, media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan is framed by military and political concerns, resulting in a simplistic picture of ageless barbarity, terrorist safe havens, and peoples in need of either punishment or salvation. Under the Drones looks beyond this limiting view to investigate real people on the ground, and to analyze the political, social, and economic forces that shape their lives. Understanding the com…
The World as a Hat
This chapter argues that the question of symbols and their interpretation by religious actors holds a particularly important place while considering ideas and practices pertaining to Persianate societies during the approximate period 1400-1700 C.E. The centerpiece of the chapter is a Persian work. Entitled a very generic Ṭarīq al-irshād , the work indicates its author to be a certain Hāshim b. Aḥmad b.Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Najafī, The work is co…
The Origins and Rhetorical Evolution of the Term Qizilbāsh in Persianate Literature
This essay traces the use of the term Qizilbāsh in select literature in Persian produced during the approximate period 1490-1700. The survey indicates that the term became the standard name given to devotee-soldiers of the Ṣafavid dynasty only gradually over the sixteenth century. Moreover, the term acquired symbolic meanings and direct connection to the time of Shaykh Ḥaydar (d. 1488) and Shāh Ismāʿīl (d. 1524) only in the seventeenth century. T…
On Islamic Time
This article argues that the academic representation of Islamic history as a single timeline, which was established in the nineteenth century and continues to predominate to the present, is a primary issue restricting fruitful readings of Islamic historical materials. Utilizing insights in thinking about history that favor multiple temporalities, I suggest that scholars in Islamic studies can expand the possibilities of their work by paying atten…
Everlasting Doubt
Utilizing treatments of uncertainty regarding history in four major Arabic and Persian works (Ṭabarī, Bīrūnī, Badāʾūnī, and Abū l-Fażl), this article treats Islam as an ever-changing set of arguments rather than a panoply of beliefs and practices. ‘Islamic history’ is internally varied, without necessary universality or internal cohesion. The Islamic case underscores the methodological point that the interrelationship between religion and history…
Reading the self in Persian prose and poetry
Afterword
This section consists of four case studies in which human selves are either observed or theorised as being subject to disaggregation.Each article highlights a distinctive facet of the interdependence between processes of individuation and dividuation, whereby we see our collective theoretical interest play out in diverse sociohistorical settings.Juxtaposing data spread between sixteenth, seventeenth, and nineteenth-century Europe and seventeenth-…
The Living Dead of Tabriz
Composing History for the Web
I recently published A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures, a digital book that presents a new way to understand Islam. This article describes the process and conceptual work that went into designing the book's interface. It emphasizes that hypertext enabled through digital means is not intrinsically more dynamic than print since work in both forms requires equally intensive hermeneutical effort. However, the digital realm provides a more ex…
Colonial India in a Crusades Mirror
Postscript
This essay is an afterword to the special section “Beyond Received Frameworks: Methodologies of the Everyday in South Asian Islam.” It reflects on how the essays included in the section deploy the “everyday” as a broadly diversified category to shed light on material and literary artifacts pertaining to Islamic social contexts in South Asia
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