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3991
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Overview

Talal Asad is affiliated with the City University of New York in the United States and conducts research primarily within the Social Sciences. Their work spans various subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Political Science and International Relations, Philosophy, Education, and Anthropology.

Their research covers main topics such as Islamic Studies and History, Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications, Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism, Religious Education and Schools, Anthropological Studies and Insights, Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies, and Law in Society and Culture.

Talal Asad has published several papers in academic journals, including:

  • Thinking about Religion through Wittgenstein, 2020, Critical Times
  • Portrait, 2020, Religion and Society
  • On the Secular State: A Response to Mohamad Amer Meziane, 2021, Political Theology
  • Anthropologie et affrontement colonial, 2022, Tumultes
  • Ideja antropologije islama / The Idea of an Anthropology of Islam, 2022, Context Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies

Their book publications include titles with Stanford University Press eBooks, notably Formations of the Secular published in 2020.

Frequent co-authors have included Jonathan Boyarin, Hussein Ali Agrama, Donovan O. Schaefer, Ananda Abeysekara, and Sonia Dayan-Herzbrun.

Talal Asad's work has been featured across multiple publication venues, which are:

  • Critical Times
  • Religion and Society
  • Political Theology
  • Tumultes
  • Context Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies

Best Publications

  • Formations of the secular: Christianity, Islam, modernity

    Talal Asad

  • Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam

    Talal Asad

  • Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter

    Keith Hart;Talal Asad

  • The idea of an anthropology of Islam

    Talal Asad

  • The Concept of Cultural Translation in British Social Anthropology

    Talal Asad

  • Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech

    Talal Asad;Wendy Brown;Judith P. Butler;Saba Mahmood

  • Anthropological Conceptions of Religion: Reflections on Geertz

    Talal Asad

  • On Suicide Bombing

    Talal Asad

  • Anthropology and the Analysis of Ideology

    Talal Asad

  • Reading a Modern Classic: W. C. Smith's "The Meaning and End of Religion"

    Talal Asad

  • Ethnographic Representation, Statistics, and Modern Power

    Talal Asad

  • Multiculturalism and British Identity in the Wake of the Rushdie Affair

    Talal Asad

  • Free Speech, Blasphemy, and Secular Criticism

    Talal Asad

  • Thinking About Tradition, Religion, and Politics in Egypt Today

    Talal Asad

  • Anthropology & the colonial encounter

    Talal Asad

  • Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam.

    John R. Bowen;Talal Asad

  • Agency and pain: An exploration

    Talal Asad

  • On Torture, or Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment

    Talal Asad

  • Trying to understand French secularism

    Talal Asad

  • The Kababish Arabs: Power, authority and consent in a nomadic tribe

    Talal Asad

  • The anthropology of politics : a reader in ethnography, theory, and critique

    Marc Edelman;Paul Farmer;John Gledhill;Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  • Religion, nation-state, secularism

    Talal Asad

Frequent Co-Authors

Judith Butler
Judith Butler University of California, Berkeley
Paul Farmer
Paul Farmer Harvard University
Arjun Appadurai
Arjun Appadurai New York University
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Columbia University
Ernest Gellner
Ernest Gellner London School of Economics and Political Science
Margaret Lock
Margaret Lock McGill University
Aihwa Ong
Aihwa Ong University of California, Berkeley
Veena Das
Veena Das Johns Hopkins University
John L. Comaroff
John L. Comaroff Harvard University
Neil Smith
Neil Smith City University of New York

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