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Blain Auer is a full professor in the Section of Slavic and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the Faculty of Arts, University of Lausanne (UNIL), appointed on February 1, 2013. He previously served as a professor of Islamic studies in the Department of Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University. His academic expertise lies in South Asian Islamology and Urdu, with a focus on pre-modern Islamic history, particularly the Delhi Sultanate.
His research centers on Islamic authority, expressed through Quranic interpretation, Hadith, exegesis, and historiography in medieval South Asia. A second major area involves ritual practices, modern pilgrimage, and relics associated with Islamic burial sites. He also investigates the intersections between Sufism and political power, Persianate court cultures, and interreligious encounters between Muslims and Buddhists in Central and South Asia.
The thematic trends in his recent publications reveal a sustained scholarly focus on Indo-Islamic political legitimacy, Persian historiography in India, and the intellectual culture of pre-modern Islamic courts. His works often analyze how historical narratives were shaped by religious and political agendas, particularly in the context of Turkic and Afghan rule in South Asia. He has also contributed critical translations and studies of key Persian historical texts from the Delhi Sultanate era.
- Member, Board of the Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University
- Member, Center for the Humanities, Western Michigan University
Blain Auer received his PhD in 2009 from Harvard University’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. His doctoral training has informed his rigorous textual and historical methodology. He continues to contribute actively to the academic community through publications, editorial work, and participation in scholarly networks focused on Islamic and South Asian studies.
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