The Centre for South Asian Studies (CEIAS) in Paris has launched its own Youtube channel! Subscribe to follow their activities and discover the video dedicated to the Sindhi Studies Group.
Category Archives: Interviews
In Conversation with Dr. Kaleemullah Lashari
Interview given by Dr. Kaleemullah Lashari-KL (Interviewer: Saba Sindhri (SS), PhD Student at CEIAS, Paris)
Dr. Kaleemullah Lashari is an archaeologist, historian and author. In March 2019, the government of Pakistan awarded him the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, the third highest honour and civilian award in Pakistan. He works and preserves physical heritage.
SS: Can you describe for us the steps that led you to the training in Archeology, History and Persian language?
KL: The interest in the field of physical and cultural heritage was a harvest, which was a result of exposition to many factors. My late Continue reading In Conversation with Dr. Kaleemullah Lashari
Interview with Masooma Shakir, NED
In Conversation: Masooma Shakir with Saba Sindhri
Architect Masooma Mohib Shakir is Assistant Professor at the Architecture and Planning Department, NED, Karachi. She got her undergraduate degree in Architecture from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in Karachi, Pakistan. She got her Masters from University of Leuven, Belgium and is currently working on her Phd research on Interrelationship of Living Heritage to its Context, Case of Sufi Shrines in Sindh, at the , in Germany. Her interests lie particularly in planning and urban design for historic environments. She has been involved in several urban research projects and publications and contributed to national and international journals, symposiums and conferences. Continue reading Interview with Masooma Shakir, NED
Interview with Professor Sarah Ansari, Royal Holloway
Interview with Professor Sarah Ansari, Royal Holloway, University of London (by Saba Sindhri, CEIAS-EHESS)
Professor Sarah Ansari is Professor of History on South Asia’s recent past at Royal Holloway University of London. Her research interests tend to focus on the history of (1) the province of Sindh and its mega-port city of Karachi, and (2) the lives of women in South
Asia. Her main publications are Sufi saints and state power. The pirs of Sindh, 1843-1947, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1992; Women, Religion, and Culture in Iran, Editor with Vanessa Martin, Routledge, 2002; Life after Partition: Migration, Community
and Strife in Sindh, 1947-1962, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005; From subjects to Citizens: Society and the Everyday State in India and Pakistan, 1947-1970, Joint Editor with Taylor C. Sherman & William Gould, Delhi, Cambridge University Press, 2014; Boundaries of Belonging: localities, citizenship and rights in India and Pakistan, co-authored with William Gould, CUP, 2019. Continue reading Interview with Professor Sarah Ansari, Royal Holloway
Interview with Ali S. Asani, 2011
Ali Asani is Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Harvard University.
He is a renowned specialist in the field of Sindhi literary studies. Michel Boivin interviewed him during his passage to Canada for a conference in May 2011.
Could you tell us a few words about your background and training as a scholar?
I received my undergraduate and doctoral (Ph.D.) education at Harvard. My undergraduate (B.A.) degree was in the Comparative Study of Religion with a specialization in Islam and Indo-Muslim literatures, while my doctorate was from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations where I specialized in the study of Islam and Muslim Cultures in South Asia. In receiving this education, which combined the study of religion with the study of South Asian Muslim literatures and cultures, I was fortunate to have two renowned mentors, Professors Annemarie Schimmel and Wilfred Cantwell-Smith. Continue reading Interview with Ali S. Asani, 2011
Interview with Ahmet Karamustafa, 2010
Ahmet Karamustafa is Professor of History and Religious Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He has written
on various aspects of the social and intellectual history of pre-modern Islam and worked especially on Qalandars and other “deviant” Sufi movements.
During his visit to Paris in May 2010, Delphine Ortis, a MIFS member, interviewed him on his intellectual trajectory as well as his vision of the Qalandariyya, and the differentiation he makes between Sufism and the cult of saints. Continue reading Interview with Ahmet Karamustafa, 2010