Adeeb Khalid
Adeeb Khalid (born February 17, 1964 ) is Associate Professor and Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and History at the Faculty of History at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota .
Scientific career
After receiving BA degrees from Government College in Lahore and from McGill University in Montreal , he graduated with a PhD from the University of Wisconsin – Madison .
Khalid's research focuses on the history of Central Asian Islam since the Russian conquests in the 1860s - he pays particular attention to cultural transformation, identity as a result of historical changes, and the fate of Islam under Tsarist and Soviet rule.
Khalid's research has been supported by institutions such as the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation , Carnegie Corporation , the National Endowment for the Humanities , the American Council of Learned Societies , the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, and the IREX . In addition to articles in compilations, Khalid has written three of his own non-fiction books. His first, The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform (1998), is a standard work on the Central Asian Jadidism , the second, Islam after Communism (2007), was awarded the 2008 Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies Award . A third work was published in 2015, Making Uzbekistan , which deals with the history of Central Asia in the early Soviet period (1917–1932).
Works
A listing of works edited by Khalid , his articles in academic anthologies and journals, and works he has translated can be found in his online profile of Carleton College.
- Adeeb Khalid: The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia . Comparative Studies in Muslim Societies, Volume 27. ( Online version ) Berkeley: University of California Press , 1998. ISBN 9780520213562
- Adeeb Khalid: Islam after Communism: Religion and Politics in Central Asia . Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. ISBN 9780520249271
- Adeeb Khalid: Making Uzbekistan: Nation, Empire, and Revolution in the Early USSR . Ithaca: Cornell University Press , 2015. ISBN 9780801454097
Web links
- Adeeb Khalid (Carleton College)
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| SURNAME | Khalid, Adeeb |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Islamic scholar and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th February 1964 |