"Shari`a and the State in Pakistan," a lecture by Muhammad Qasim Zaman

The Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University cordially invites you to a lecture by Professor Qasim Zaman, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University.
“Shari ‘a and the State in Pakistan”.

Muhammad Qasim Zaman joined the Department in 2006. His research interests include: religious authority in classical, medieval, and modern Islam; history of Islamic law in the Middle East and in late medieval and modern South Asia ; institutions and traditions of learning in Islam; Islamic political thought; and contemporary religious and political movements in the Muslim world. He is the author of The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change; Religion and Politics under the Early Abbasids; and Ashraf Ali Thanawi: Islam in Modern South Asia. With Robert W. Hefner, he is also the co-editor of Schooling Islam: The Culture and Politics of Modern Muslim Education and, with Roxanne L. Euben, of a forthcoming volume on Islamism. Among his current projects is a book tentatively titled Internal Criticism and Religious Authority in Modern Islam.