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Talal Asad (born 1932) is a Saudi-born cultural anthropologist who is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Feb 27, 2015 · Talal Asad is a renowned sociocultural anthropologist who specializes in the anthropology of religion and the Middle East. He has authored several books on topics such as secularism, Islam, and suicide bombing, and has taught at Oxford, Johns Hopkins, and CUNY Graduate Center.
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Talal Asad. (PhD Oxford, 1968; Dist Prof) Religion and secularism, Islamic traditions, political theories; Middle East (tasad@gc.cuny.edu) Research interests.
Interview with Talal Asad. The work of Talal Asad, in particular his two landmark volumes Ge- nealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam (1993) and Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (2004), has given new life to critical study of secularism and the idea of “religion” across the ...
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Nov 4, 2009 · Two leading Muslim scholars, Talal Asad and Abdullahi An-Naim, discussed these questions with Jose Casanova, Professor of Sociology and Senior Fellow in the Berkley Center. For more on this...
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This book is a collection of essays that explore the critical and influential work of Talal Asad, a prominent anthropologist and historian of religion. It covers topics such as colonialism, secularism, embodiment, and cultural memory in the context of modernity.
Anthropology, Philosophy, Religion. InSecular Translations, the anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradictions.
