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Kashshaf Ghani

Nalanda University, India

KASHSHAF GHANI specializes in pre-modern South Asia covering the period 1000–1800, focusing on the history of Sufism, its practices,
interactions, networks, and regional experiences. He is also interested in Indo-Persian histories, interreligious interactions, the history and culture of the Persianate world, and Asian interconnections.
Kashshaf studied History at Presidency College, Calcutta, and the University of Calcutta. He has held teaching positions at Aliah University, Kolkata, and the University of Calcutta.
He has held research positions as Sir Amir Ali Research Fellow in Islamic History and Culture at the Asiatic Society, Kolkata, Perso-Indica Visiting Fellow at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris, Visiting Fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, and Fellow at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata.
In 2018, Kashshaf was the US State Department Academic Visitor at Temple University, and received a further US State Department follow-on grant in 2020. He was carrying out research on religious pluralism in the United States, with a focus on modern-day Sufi networks in the United States.
His publications include Exploring the Global South: Voices, Ideas, Histories (2013) and Imagining Asia(s): Networks, Actors, Sites (2019),
along with several articles and essays.
Kashshaf teaches History at Nalanda University, India.

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