Talk:Shahzad Bashir

By Sachi Anjunkar

Shahzad Bashir was a Lysbeth Warren Anderson Professor in Islamic Studies at Stanford University until 2017. According to his profile, his research interests are history, theory and philosophy of history, religious studies, Iran, Central Asia, South Asia.

In 2016, he signed a letter addressed to the State Board of Education, California Department of Education, dated May 17, 2016. The letter stated the following:

1. "There is no established connection between Hinduism and the Indus Civilization. The Rg Veda contains numerous mentions of horses and chariots but there is no conclusive material or fossil evidence for either at any Indus valley archeological site."
2. "It is inappropriate to remove mention of the connection of caste to Hinduism."

Publications

1. Bashir, Shahzad. The Living Dead of Tabriz: Explorations in Chronotopic Imagination. History of Religions, vol. 59, no. 3, 2020, pp. 169-192.
2. Bashir, Shahzad, editor. Theme Issue Islamic Pasts: Histories, Concepts, Interventions. History and Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of History, vol. 58, no. 4, 2019.
3. Bashir, Shahzad. Everlasting Doubt: Uncertainty in Islamic Representations of the Past. Archiv für Religionsgeschichte, vol. 20, 2018, pp. 25-44.
4. Bashir, Shahzad. On Islamic Time: Rethinking Chronology in the Historiography of Muslim Societies. History and Theory, vol. 53, no. 4, 2014, pp. 464-519.
5. Bashir, Shahzad. Sufi Bodies: Religion and Society in Medieval Islam. Columbia University Press, 2011.