Usha Sanyal

Usha Sanyal is an American scholar and historian whose PhD dissertation analysed the Islamic legal scholar Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi.[1] Usha Sanyal is Adjunct Lecturer at Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina۔[2]

Usha Sanyal
OccupationHistorian

Work

Sanyal has authored five books:

  • Devotional Islam and Politics in British India: Ahmed Raza Khan Barelwi and His Movement, 1870-1920. 1st & 2nd editions. New York and Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1999. 3rd edition. Delhi:Yoda Press, 2010 (Urdu Translation in 2013)
  • Ahmed Raza Khan: In the Path of the Prophet. Oxford: Oneworld Publications. 2005

Devotional Islam and Politics in British India received a positive review from the scholar and translator of South Asian literature Aditya Behl in The Journal of Religion. He described it as "a well-researched and welcome addition to the literature on Islamic reform in colonial India".[3]

  • Scholars of Faith: South Asian Muslim Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge, with Nita Kumar, eds. Bloomsbury, 2020, Oxford University Press.[4]
  • Food, Faith and Gender in South Asia: The Cultural Politics of Women's Food Practices (Criminal Practice Series), 2020.[5]
  • Muslim Voices: Community and Self in South Asia (New Perspectives on Indian Pasts) with David Gilmartin, and Sandria Freitag, eds. Delhi: Yoda Press, 2013.[6]

References
  1. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sai/dissertations.html Doctoral Dissertations of Recent Alumini, Columbia University.
  2. https://oneworld-publications.com/ahmad-riza-khan-barelwi-hb.html
  3. Behl, Aditya (January 1999). "Devotional Islam and Politics in British India: Ahmad Riza Khan and His Movement, 1870-1920. Usha Sanyal". The Journal of Religion. 79 (1): 178–179. doi:10.1086/490387.
  4. www.amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/Scholars-Faith-Embodiment-Religious-Knowledge-ebook/dp/B08B45Z785. Retrieved 2020-09-28. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. www.amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/Food-Faith-Gender-South-Asia/dp/1350137065. Retrieved 2020-09-28. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. www.amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/Muslim-Voices-Community-Perspectives-Indian-ebook/dp/B088QLHXBC. Retrieved 2020-09-28. Missing or empty |title= (help)



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