Please see webiste: sites.brown.edu/shahzadbashir
| A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures. MIT press, 2022. |
| BASHIR, SHAHZAD. "COMPOSING HISTORY FOR THE WEB: DIGITAL REFORMULATION OF NARRATIVE, EVIDENCE, AND CONTEXT." History and Theory, 2022. |
| The Market in Poetry in the Persian World. Cambridge University Press, 2021. |
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"Arbiters of Iran: Chroniclers and Patrons in an Age of Literary Bounty." The Timurid Century: The Idea of Iran (Vol. 9), London, England, Tauris, 2020, pp. 7-24.
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| Bashir, Shahzad. "The Living Dead of Tabriz: Explorations in Chronotopic Imagination." History of Religions, vol. 59, no. 3, 2020, pp. 169-192. |
| Bashir, Shahzad. "India as a Sufi Spacetime in the Work of Jamālī of Delhi.", 2019. |
| BASHIR, SHAHZAD. "INTRODUCTION." History and Theory, vol. 58, no. 4, 2019, pp. 3-6. |
| Bashir, Shahzad. "Reading the self in Persian prose and poetry.", 2019, pp. 443-458. |
| Bashir, Shahzad. "Eurocentrism, Islam, and the intellectual politics of civilizational framing." InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, vol. Vol 8, 2018, pp. and Debates in History and Sociology. |
| Bashir, Shahzad. "Everlasting Doubt: Uncertainty in Islamic Representations of the Past." Archiv für Religionsgeschichte, vol. 20, no. 1, 2018, pp. 25-44. |
| Bashir, Shahzad. "Naqshband’s Lives: Sufi Hagiography between Manuscripts and Genre.", 2018. |
| Bashir, Shahzad. "The Mediation of Hair: Ṣūfī, Ḥurūfī, and Poetic Usages in Persian Texts." Al-Masāq, vol. 30, no. 1, 2018, pp. 90-106. |
| "The Intertwining of History and Heritage in Islamic Contexts." The Making of Islamic Heritage: Muslim Pasts and Heritage Presents, Singapore, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp. 13-22. |
| "Islam and the Politics of Temporality: The Case of ISIS." Time, Temporality and Global Politics, edited by Andrew Hom, Christopher McIntosh, Alasdair McKay and Liam Stockdale, Bristol, e-International Relations, 2016, pp. 134-149. |
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"A Perso-Islamic Universal Chronicle in its Historical Context: Ghiyās̱ al-Dīn Khwāndamīr’s Ḥabīb al-siyar." History and Religion: Narrating a Religious Past, edited by Jörg Rüpke, Susanne Rau, and Bernd-Christian Otto, Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 2015, pp. 207-223.
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| BASHIR, SHAHZAD. "On Islamic Time: Rethinking Chronology in the Historiography of Muslim Societies." History and Theory, vol. 53, no. 4, 2014, pp. 519-544. |
| Bashir, Shahzad. "The Origins and Rhetorical Evolution of the Term Qizilbāsh in Persianate Literature." Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. 57, no. 3, 2014, pp. 364-391. |
| Sufi Bodies: Religion and Society in Medieval Islam. Columbia University Press, 2013. |
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"The World as a Hat: Symbolism and Materiality in Safavid Iran." Unity in Diversity: Mysticism, Messianism and the Construction of Religious Authority in Islam, edited by Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, Leiden, Brill, 2013, pp. 343-365.
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| Under the Drones: Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands. Harvard University Press, 2012. |
| Bashir, Shahzad. "Muḥammad in Ṣūfī eyes: prophetic legitimacy in medieval Iran and Central Asia.", 2010, pp. 201-225. |
| Bashir, Shahzad. "Shah Ismaʿil and the Qizilbash: Cannibalism in the Religious History of Early Safavid Iran." History of Religions, vol. 45, no. 3, 2006, pp. 234-256. |
| Fazlallah Astarabadi and the Hurufis. One World, 2005. |
| Messianic Hopes and Mystical Visions: The Nurbakhshiya Between Medieval and Modern Islam. University of South Carolina Press, 2003. |
| Year | Degree | Institution |
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| 1998 | PhD | Yale University |
| 1994 | MPhil | Yale University |
| 1993 | MA | Yale University |
| 1991 | AB | Amherst College |
Religious Studies 2700: Historiography of Islam (Fall 2017)
Religious Studies 0096: The Imaginary Lives of Muslims (Spring 2018)
Religious Studies 1510: Islam in South Asia (Spring 2018)
| HIST 0273B - Religion and European Colonialism, 1700-1900 |
| HIST 2981V - Histories of Time |
| HMAN 2400R - Tracing Translations: Artistic Migrations and Reinventions in the Early Modern World |
| HMAN 2500 - Project Development Workshop |
| RELS 0095B - Islam in Fiction: History, Romance, Satire |
| RELS 0096 - The Imaginary Lives of Muslims |
| RELS 0575 - On Human Longing: Persian and Urdu Poetry |
| RELS 0610 - Sufi Islam |
| RELS 0615 - Rumi and Friends: The World of Sufi Poetry |
| RELS 0625 - Articulating Islam in Southeast Asia |
| RELS 1510 - Islam in South Asia |
| RELS 2400D - Islamic Pasts and Futures |
| RELS 2700 - Historiography of Islam |
| RELS 2705 - Sufism Seminar |
