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Vernacular Texts on Ethics in Late-Colonial India 

Farina Mir
Thursday, January 16, 1:30 pm
303 International Center

Farina Mir is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Mir is currently working on two on projects. The first, tentatively titled "Producing Modern Muslims: Everyday Ethics in Late Colonial North India," is a study of Muslim socio-religious reform in late-colonial India, focusing on the role of popular ethics in constituting modern Muslim subjectivity and history. The second is "A History of Islam in South Asia," a synthetic history that covers the period from the rise of Islam to contemporary times.