What is Islamic Modernism?

Dr Maria-Magdalena Pruß is a research fellow at ZMO and a historian of modern South Asia. She received her PhD at Princeton University in 2019. In this episode, Maria talks about doing research in Pakistan and her resulting forthcoming book, titled "Islamic Modernism and Religious Identity in Colonial Punjab" (McGill-Queen's University Press). The episode takes a look behind the scenes of archival work in Pakistan, how to gain access to records and source material while keeping in mind research methodology and ethics. It also focuses on the question of "What is Islamic modernism", the role of the Ahmadiyya movement, as well as regional variations and translocal connections in the history of Islamic modernism in South Asia. The episode is moderated by ZMO-affiliate Noura Chalati.