A Forum on Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire
SherAli Tareen’s pathbreaking new book, Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire (Columbia University Press, 2023) was selected as a finalist for the 2024 American Academy of Religion Book Award and  asks how South Asian Muslim scholars or ulama imagined and contested the boundaries of Islam from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries.
The book is a master class in how to open a dense intellectual archive to non-specialists. Although making imposingly erudite use of sources in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, Tareen always approaches these sources with a light touch. Often funny, Perilous Intimacies humanizes its ulama, even as it pays scrupulous attention to the complexities of their texts.
Columbia University Press, 2023
Contributors
Perilous Intimacies: An Introduction J. Barton Scott University of Toronto
The Limits of Imperial Political Theology Supriya Gandhi Yale University
Forthcoming
Ilyse Morgenstein-Fuerst
University of Vermont
Forthcoming
Elaine Fisher
Stanford University
Forthcoming
Noah Salomon
University of Virginia
Forthcoming
SherAli Tareen Franklin and Marshal College (author response)
