BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:16027-900a29a37dbf8a2d4eb4583655ceef5f@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260507T125155Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250911T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250911T170000 SUMMARY:“Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire” wit h SherAli Tareen DESCRIPTION:\nAbstract: Perilous Intimacies explores how leading South A sian Muslim thinkers imagined and contested the boundaries of Hindu-Musl im friendship from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Ba sed on the close reading of an expansive and multifaceted archive of Ara bic\, Persian\, and Urdu sources\, this book tries to illuminate the dep th\, complexity\, and profound divisions of the Muslim intellectual trad itions of South Asia on the question of Hindu-Muslim friendship. This ev ent will engage some key fragments of this recently published book.\n\nS herAli Tareen is professor of religious studies at Franklin and Marshall College. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual traditions and deb ates in early modern and modern South Asia. His book Defending Muhammad in Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press\, 2020) received the Americ an Institute of Pakistan Studies 2020 Book Prize and was selected as a f inalist for the 2021 American Academy of Religion Book Award. His second book is called Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship af ter Empire (Columbia University Press\, 2023). It was selected as a fina list for the 2024 American Academy of Religion Book Award.\n\nFor more d etails: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/sherali-tareen/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Abstract: Peril ous Intimacies explores how leading South Asian Muslim thinkers imagined and contested the boundaries of Hindu-Muslim friendship from the mid-ei ghteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Based on the close reading of a n expansive and multifaceted archive of Arabic, Persian, and Urdu source s, this book tries to illuminate the depth, complexity, and profound div isions of the Muslim intellectual traditions of South Asia on the questi on of Hindu-Muslim friendship. This event will engage some key fragments of this recently published book.

SherAli Tareen is professor of r eligious studies at Franklin and Marshall College. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual traditions and debates in early modern and modern South Asia. His book Defending Muhammad in Modernity (University of Not re Dame Press, 2020) received the American Institute of Pakistan Studies 2020 Book Prize and was selected as a finalist for the 2021 American Ac ademy of Religion Book Award. His second book is called Perilous Intimac ies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire (Columbia University Press, 2023). It was selected as a finalist for the 2024 American Academ y of Religion Book Award.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/sher ali-tareen/

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