Muhammad qasim zaman biography of donald

Zaman, Muhammad Qasim

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Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Associate Professor of Religious Studies

(Ph.D.

Muhammad Qasim Zaman describes the transformations the centuries-old culture and tradition of the `ulama have undergone in the modern era--transformations that.

Questions such as Donald Richards's distinction between mamluk, non-mamluk, and Mamluk.

Religion and Politics Under the Early Abbasids: Emergence of the Proto-sunni Elite (Islamic History and Civilization): The Emergence of the Proto-Sunnī Elite.

Muhammad Qasim Zaman.

Creator: Zaman, Muhammad Qasim; Contributor: Little, Donald P. (Supervisor); Subject: Ulama -- Islamic Empire, Islam and state -- Islamic Empire.

Islamic Studies, McGill University, Montreal, 1994)

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Muhammad Qasim Zaman is Associate Professor of Religious Studies. A recipient of several fellowships, including a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in South Asian Islam and the Greater Muslim World (the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University, Durham, 1995-96) and a National Humanities Center fellowship (2000-01), his major research interests include: religious authority in classical, medieval, and modern Islam; history of Islamic law in the Middle East and in late medieval and modern South Asia; institutions and traditions of learning in Islam; Islamic political thought; and contemporary religious and political movements in the Muslim world.

He is the author of The Ulama in Contemporary