CONTRIBUTOR:

SherAli Tareen

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Religious Studies

INSTITUTION:

Franklin & Marshall College

BIOGRAPHY:

SherAli Tareen is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. He received his PhD in Islamic Studies from Duke University. His work is on Muslim reform movements in colonial India. He is currently writing a monograph entitled “Islam and the Ethics of Authenticity: Tradition, Reform, and Innovation” that examines intra-Muslim polemics on questions of law and theology in 18th and 19th century India.