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Professor Muhammad Qasim Zaman is the Robert H. Niehaus '77 Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Religion at Princeton University. He joined the Department in 2006 and holds dual appointments in Near Eastern Studies and Religion. His work focuses on the interplay between religious and political institutions in Islamic history, medieval and modern legal thought, and transnational intellectual networks between South Asia and the Arab Middle East.
Key research areas include the evolution of religious authority in contemporary Islam, the socio-legal dimensions of South Asian Islam, and the historical trajectory of Islamic educational institutions. He has authored seminal works such as Islam in Pakistan: A History (2018), Modern Islamic Thought in a Radical Age (2012), and Religion and Politics under the Early Abbasids (1997). He is also an editor of influential volumes like Schooling Islam (2007) and Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought (2009).
His current project explores South Asia’s engagement with the broader Muslim world during the 18th and 19th centuries. While no specific grants or awards are listed, his scholarship has shaped academic discourse on Islamic modernity and tradition. Advising and mentorship details are not explicitly provided in the text.
