Shaharyar Zia works on late-medieval and early modern Islamic intellectual history. He is interested in the scholarly traditions of Firangī Maḥall, Shāh Walī Allāh, Khayrābādīs and various Sufi groups in South Asia. In trying to situate and analyze these...
Eric Moses Gurevitch is a historian of science, technology, and medicine in the medieval and early modern periods, with a focus on South Asia and the Indian Ocean. His research tells a global history in which unexpected voices, practices, and events come...
Janet Gyatso works on intellectual history and literature in early modern Tibet. Her books include Being Buddhist in a Human World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet (2015) and Apparitions of the Self: The Secret Autobiographies of...
Ayesha U. Shaikh’s research interests pertain to Indian Ocean and Red Sea material and...
Briana Brightly is a Ph.D. candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion. Her dissertation, titled “Anatomy of the Buddha: Making Images during the Golden Age of Tibetan Medicine, 1600–1800,” investigates the intersection of medicine and Buddhist...
Region: Africa; Atlantic World; Britain; Caribbean; China; Eastern Mediterranean; England; Eurasia; Europe; France; Holy Roman Empire; Iberia; Italy; Japan; Mediterranean; Middle East; Pacific World; South Asia
Time: 14th century; 15th century; 16th...
