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Usha Sanyal | |
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Born | India |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | In the Path of the Prophet: Maulana Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and the Ahl-e Sunnat wa Jamaat Movement in British India, c. 1870-1921 |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | Southeast Asia |
Institutions | Wingate University |
Usha Sanyal is an Indian scholar and historian of Islam specializing in the Barelvi movement. She was a visiting assistant professor of history at Wingate University in North Carolina.[ citation needed ]
Her PhD dissertation analysed the Islamic legal scholar Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi. [1]
Sanyal graduated with a BA (Honors) in sociology with a minor in economics from Delhi University,India and an MA in Southeast Asian studies from the University of Kent at Canterbury,UK. Her M Phil. in South Asian and Southeast Asian history,was done from Columbia University. She also completed a Ph.D. in history from the Columbia University in 1990. [2] [ better source needed ]
Sanyal's research includes a knowledge of the English,French,and Hindi-Urdu Languages.[ citation needed ]
Sanyal has authored five books:
Devotional Islam and Politics in British India received a positive review from the scholar and translator of South Asian literature Aditya Behl in The Journal of Religion . He described it as "a well-researched and welcome addition to the literature on Islamic reform in colonial India". [5]
Her articles include:
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Ahmed Riza Khan Barelwi:In the Path of the Prophet is a book written by the Historian and assistant professor of history at Wingate University,Usha Sanyal and published by the OneWorld Publications on 23 May 2005 about the Founder of Barelvi Movement,Imam Ahl-e-Sunnat Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi. The book deals with all the information about Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi from his birth to his death.
Devotional Islam and Politics in British India:Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and His Movement,1870-1920 is a book written by American Historian and Professor Dr. Usha Sanyal about the life of the Founder of Barelvi Movement,Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi. It was published in 1995 by the Oxford University Press.
This Bibliography of Barelvi Movement is a selected list of generally available scholarly resources related to Barelvi movement,a revivalist movement within Sunni Islam,adhering to the Hanafi school of law,started in the late 19th by the Imam Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi in British India.
Scholars of Faith:South Asian Muslim Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge is a Book written by Usha Sanyal and published by Oxford University Press on 5 July 2020. It cover the ground report of Madarsas belonging to the Barelvi Islam,it focuses on Female education. Muslim Girls' Education in North India in the Twentieth Century and Beyond,Jamia Nur al Shariat Madrasa,Shahjahanpur which is for Women and Al-Huda Institute,a Non-governmental organisation providing online courses of Quran and Hadith.