Participant Info
- First Name
- Darakhshan
- Last Name
- Khan
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- darakhshan@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Newcastle University
- Website URL
- https://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/people/profile/darakhshankhan.html
- Keywords
- South Asian history, Islamic law, women's labour, household, women's literature, social reform, colonialism, Muslim personal law
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a historian of Islam, class, and gender in modern South Asia. I received my PhD from the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania in 2017 and a Master’s degree in Asian Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2009.
Before joining Newcastle University I worked as a research fellow at the International Institute of Islamic Thought (Virginia, USA).
I grew up in Bombay, India, where I finished my undergraduate degree in Microbiology. Before turning to humanities and academia I worked as a journalist in Bombay for seven years.
- Recent Publications
- Khan D. Intention as the Bridge between the Ideal and the Contingent: Rabea Basri and the Tablīg̲h̲ī Jamāt. ReOrient 2020, 5(2), 183-197.
- Khan D. Praying in the Kitchen: The Tablīg̲h̲ī Jamāt and Female Piety. In: Usha Sanyal and Nita Kumar, ed. Food, Faith and Gender in South Asia: The Cultural Politics of Women’s Food Practices. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, pp.201-216.
- Khan D. In Good Company: Reformist Piety and Women’s Da‘wat in the Tablīghī Jamā‘at. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 2018, 35(3), 1-25.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Country Focus
- India
- Expertise by Geography
- India, South Asia
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century, Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Family, Gender, Labor, Religion, Women
