Muzaffar Alam

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Muzaffar Alam
Born (1947-02-03) 3 February 1947 (age 78)
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Scientific career
Fields History

Muzaffar Alam (born 3 February 1947) is the George V. Bobrinskoy Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. [1]

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Biography

Muzaffar Alam is a historian trained at Jamia Millia Islamia (New Delhi), Aligarh Muslim University and Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi), [2] where he obtained his doctorate in history in 1977. Before joining the SALC at the University of Chicago in 2001, he taught three decades at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and has held visiting positions in the Collège de France (Paris), Leiden University, University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the EHESS (Paris).

Research

Alam's research focuses on Mughal political and institutional history and the history of Indo-Islamic culture. Alam has taught courses on the history of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal Empire. His working languages include English, Persian, French, and Urdu.

Alam also studies the history of religious and literary cultures in pre-colonial northern India, history of Indo-Persian travel accounts, and comparative history of the Islamic world (as seen from an Indian perspective).

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References

  1. "Muzaffar Alam | South Asian Languages and Civilizations". salc.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 4 March 2025.
  2. Muzaffar Alam (1998). "The Pursuit of Persian: Language in Mughal Politics" (PDF). Cambridge University Press. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 April 2019. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
  3. ALAM, MUZAFFAR (1986). THE CRISIS OF EMPIRE IN MUGHAL NORTH INDIA. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, BOMBAY.
  4. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-mughal-state-1526-1750-9780195652253?type=listing&subjectcode1=1793239%7CAHU00010&lang=en&cc=bt
  5. https://archive.org/details/europeanexperien0000poli
  6. Yavari, Neguin (2009). "Review of The Languages of Political Islam: India 1200-1800". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 129 (2): 311–314. ISSN   0003-0279.
  7. https://www.cambridge.org//universitypress/subjects/history/regional-history-after-1500/indo-persian-travels-age-discoveries-14001800?format=HB&isbn=9780521780414