Rate My Professor Shahzad Bashir

Bashir has authored five books: A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures (MIT Press, 2022), a digital monograph; The Market in Poetry in the Persian World (Cambridge University Press, 2021); Sufi Bodies: Religion and Society in Medieval Islam (Columbia University Press, 2011); Fazlallah Astarabadi and the Hurufis (Oneworld, 2005); and Messianic Hopes and Mystical Visions: The Nūrbakhshīya Between Medieval and Modern Islam (University of South Carolina Press, 2003). He has published over 40 articles in journals including History and Theory, History of Religions, and Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. His work has earned fellowships from the Andrew Carnegie Corporation, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, and Stanford Humanities Center. In 2020, he received Brown University's Presidential Faculty Award. Bashir edits the Islamic Humanities series (University of California Press), co-edits Islamicate Intellectual History (Brill), and is associate editor of History and Theory. His contributions have profoundly influenced Islamic historiography, Sufi studies, and interdisciplinary approaches to Persianate intellectual traditions.