AHA Session 181
North American Conference on British Studies 3
Society for Advancing the History of South Asia 7
North American Conference on British Studies 3
Society for Advancing the History of South Asia 7
Sunday, January 5, 2020: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Mercury Ballroom (New York Hilton, Third Floor)
Chair:
Michele Louro, Salem State University
Panel:
Faiz Ahmed, Brown University
Elizabeth Lhost, University of Chicago
Michael Christopher Low, Iowa State University
Julia Stephens, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Elizabeth Lhost, University of Chicago
Michael Christopher Low, Iowa State University
Julia Stephens, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Session Abstract
This roundtable is the annual celebration and exploration of the most recent winner of the John F. Richards Prize in South Asian history. The work under discussion is the 2018 winner, Faiz Ahmed's Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires (Harvard, 2018). Chaired by Neilesh Bose, the expertise of panelists range from late Ottoman and modern Middle Eastern history, South Asian Islamic legal history, and Indian Ocean history and include Michael Christopher Low, Julia Stephens, and Elizabeth Lhost.
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