Faculty Details
Dr. Kashshaf Ghani
Dr. Kashshaf Ghani
Designation
Assistant Professor
Areas of Interest/Specialisation
Medieval and Early Modern India; History of Sufism in India, Central and West Asia; Sufi rituals and practices, networks, institutions; Indo-Persian History and Culture; Socio-Cultural Interactions; Asian Interconnections;
Year of Joining at NU
2014
Total Years of Teaching Experience:
13 years
Name and details of Ph.D. Degree awarded Institution
Department of History, University of Calcutta
Awards/Honours
SUSI Scholarship Follow-on Grant, US Department of State, Education and Cultural Affairs, 2020- US Department of State Academic Visitor on Religious Pluralism in the U.S. at Temple University, Philadelphia, 2018
- Project Fellow at the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata (2014-2017)
- Visiting Fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 2012
- Perso-Indica Visiting Fellow at the Institut d’Etudes Iraniennes, Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris, 2012.
- Sir Amir Ali Fellow in Islamic History & Culture, The Asiatic Society, Kolkata (2007 – 2012)
- Haribhusan & Maya Shome Memorial Award for the Most Outstanding Student of the School of Languages, Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata, 2009
- Professor Ashin Dasgupta Memorial Award, Department of History, University of Calcutta, 2004
Best Peer-reviewed Publications (Best 05)
- 2025: “Dramatic War, Fabulous Stories, and Legendary Kings: Persian Adaptation of Mahabharata as Razmnama”, in Anirban Bhattacharjee and Dhrubajyoti Sarkar (eds.), Contemporaneity of the Mahabharata Narrative: Epic of the Moment, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, pgs. 48-65.
- 2022: “Creating Space for Piety and Dialogue: North American Sufi Devotionalism”, Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Volume 57, Number 2, pgs. 175-96.
- 2022: “Locating the Early Modern in South Asian Sufism”, in Meena Bhargava & Pratyay Nath (eds.), The Early Modern in South Asia Querying Modernity, Periodization, and History, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, pgs. 43-63.
- 2015: “Vestige of a Dying Tradition: Tuhfat ul Muwahhidin in Nineteenth Century Bengal”, Studia Iranica, Volume 44, Issue 1, pgs. 55-81.
- 2009: “Sound of Sama: The Use of Poetical Imagery in South Asian Sufi Music”, Comparative Islamic Studies, Volume 5, Number 2, pgs. 273-96.