Talal Asad
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Born | Medina |
| Saudi Arabia | |
| School or tradition | Postcolonialism |
| poststructuralism | |
| Parents | Muhamed Asad |
| Munira Asad | |
| Muhammad Asad | |
| Influenced | Saba Mahmood |
| Tomoko Masuzawa | |
| Job | Anthropologist |
| Education | University of Oxford |
| The University of Edinburgh | |
| Books | Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason |
| Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech | |
| On Suicide Bombing | |
| Formations of the secular | |
| Thinking about Secularism and Law in Egypt | |
| Genealogies of religion | |
| The idea of an anthropology of Islam | |
| Anthropology & the Colonial Encounter | |
| Anthropology & the Colonial Encounter | |
| Thesi | The Kababish |
| Spous | Tanya Asad |
| Influenc | Saba Mahmood; Tomoko Masuzawa; |
| Disciplin | Anthropology |
| School or tradit | Postcolonialism |
| poststructuralism | |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 437158 |
Talal Asad Life story
Talal Asad is a Saudi-born cultural anthropologist who is currently a professor of anthropology at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His prolific body of work mainly focuses on religiosity, Middle Eastern studies, postcolonialism, and notions of power, law and discipline.
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