A. Azfar Moin

Prof. Moin studies the history of the pre-modern Islamic world from comparative perspectives with a focus on concepts and practices of sovereignty. His book The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam won the Best First Book in the History of Religions Award from the American Academy of Religion, John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History from the American Historical Association, and Honorable Mention for the Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize (South Asia) from the Association for Asian Studies. His research has also been published in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Fragments: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Ancient and Medieval Pasts, Indian Economic & Social History Review, and in a number of edited volumes. His current project, for which he received a Postdoctoral Fellowship for Transregional Research from the Social Science Research Council and a Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies, focuses on ritual violence and kingship in late medieval and early modern world. Prof. Moin teaches courses on religious transformations in the early modern Islamic world, rituals and practice of sovereignty in Islam, and theory and method in the study of religion.