19.3.09, Pinault Lecture in Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh
Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
19 George Square
Room G2,
Thursday, 19 March,
6.30

Professor David Pinault will talk on

SUNNI-SHIA RELATIONS IN PAKISTAN AND INDIA:
CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS FOR RECONCILIATION

Professor Pinault is author of three major books that address modern Shi`ism in the subcontinent:

Notes from the Fortune-Telling Parrot: Islam and the Struggle for Religious Pluralism in Pakistan. London: Equinox Publishing, 2008.

Horse of Karbala: Studies in South Asian Muslim Devotionalism. New
York: Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2000.

The Shiites: Ritual and Popular Piety in a Muslim Community. New York:
St. Martin’s Press, 1992.

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