Ali S. Asani (Harvard University)

submitted: 7/14/94 (by mail)

Ali S. Asani
Professor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languages & Cultures
Study of Religion
Phillips Brooks House, 3rd Floor
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA   02138  USA

phones:  617-495-5755
         617-495-5781
Fax:     617:496-5798

Description of Work:

Teaching:  Urdu / Hindi; Gujarati / Sindhi; Islamic civilization in South 
Asia; Islamic mysticism.

Research: Islamic literatures in vernacular languages; Sufism and Shiism 
in South Asia, especially the Ismaili community; popular or folk forms of 
Islamic devotional practice; issues related to Islamic identity in 
medieval or modern times in the South Asian context.

[India]
[Pakistan]