Interpreting the Sindhi World: Essays on Society and History

Michel Boivin is Research Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies, CNRS-EHESS (Paris). After graduation in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Lyon 2, he taught contemporary History of the Muslim world. He is currently Research Fellow at CNRS and is heading the French Interdisciplinary Mission in Sindh (MIFS). His last book, which he is the editor is Sindh Through History and Representations. Published in 2008 by OUP Pakistan, it isa survey of French research in Sindhi studies. Michel Boivin has contributed to many academic journals on Ismailism and Sufism in the 19th-20th c. Sindhi area, both in Pakistan and in India. Matthew A. Cook is Assistant Professor of South Asian Postcolonial Studies at North Carolina Central University. His past teaching appointments include: North Carolina State University, New York University, Columbia University, Hofstra University and Duke University. His research focus is on modern South Asia and the methodological conjunction of anthropology and history. He has authored book chapters, journal articles and reviews published by Oxford University Press, EasternAnthropologist, Sagar, Columbia Journal of Historiography, Columbia Historical Review, and Educational Practice and Theory and South Asian Review.