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Talal Asad (born 1932) is a Saudi-born cultural anthropologist who is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Feb 27, 2015 · At the Graduate Center since 1998, Talal Asad is a sociocultural anthropologist of international stature specializing in the anthropology of religion with a special interest in the Middle East and Islam. He earned his M.A. at Edinburgh University and B.Litt. and D.Phil. at Oxford.
Interview with Talal Asad. Ovamir Anjum. The work of Talal Asad, in particular his two landmark volumes Ge- nealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam (1993) and Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (2004), has given new life to critical study of secularism and the idea of “religion ...
Talal Asad. (PhD Oxford, 1968; Dist Prof) Religion and secularism, Islamic traditions, political theories; Middle East (tasad@gc.cuny.edu) Research interests.
Jan 9, 2020 · Longtime readers of Talal Asad will not be surprised that “the idea of the secular” (1) is the central concern of his most recent work, Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason.
Sep 20, 2023 · I heed the series’ call for a de-centered understanding of empire which is attentive to the discipline’s entanglements with imperial powers via revisiting different moments of the trailblazing oeuvre of Talal Asad. But why so? How is Asad’s oeuvre tied to the central call of Remnants of empire?
I N T E R V I E W The Solitary Analyst of Doxas An Interview with Talal Asad Fadi A. Bardawil Preface Talal Asad has been interrogating the conceptual infrastructure undergirding anthropological and social scientiic works for more than four decades now.
In this interview, completed in November 2016, the anthropologist Talal Asad (b. 1933) reviews methodological and theoretical questions that continue to animate his work. The conversation is framed by his concept of tradition and touches on themes of temporality and sovereignty, failure and fragility, ethnographic conceits and forms of life.
For more than three decades, Talal Asad has been engaged in a distinctive critical exploration of the conceptual assumptions that govern the West’s knowledges—especially its disciplinary and disciplining knowledges—of the non-Western world.
Talal Asad (born 1932) is a Saudi-born cultural anthropologist who is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
