Aligarh Muslim University

Department Member, Department of Islamic Studies

Thesis Title: Islam and Democracy: A Study of the Views of Contemporary Scholars of India and Pakistan"

About

TAUSEEF AHMAD PARRAY
A Doctoral Candidate/PhD Research Scholar in the Department of Islamic Studies, Aligarh Muslim University, working on the topic "Islam and Democracy: A Study of the Views of Contemporary Scholars of India and Pakistan"
*** PUBLICATIONS: (as on 01-11-2011):
8 Research Papers, 3 Review Essays,  and 22 Book Reviews (mostly published and few/some in print and forthcoming) – in various International journals (& 1 national) include:
1. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS) USA;
2. Insights, Pakistan;
3. Democratization, UK;
4. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs (JMMA), UK;
5. Intellectual Discourse, IIUM, Malaysia;
6. Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life, Springer, Netherlands;
6. Islam ad Muslim societies- A Social Science Journal, India;
7. Islam & Civlisational Renewal(ICR), IAIS, Malaysia;
8. Journal of  Humanity and Islam (JHI), Malaysia;
9. Islamic Studies, pakistan;
10. History Studies, Turkey;
11. Hamdard Islamicus, Pakistan.

Besides these,  about a dozen articles have been published  in some magazines and 4 have been published ONLINE by Studying Islam, an affiliate of Al Mawrid Instt. Pakistan, on  www.studying-islam.org

*** Selected  (in December 2010) as the  ‘Section Editor’ of Journal of Humanity and Islam (JHI), an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed quarterly journal published by Hatam Group Publications, Malaysia (web address): http://www.hgpub.com/index.php/jhi
& in April, 2011 as "India Representative" of 'Encompassing Crescent' a Monthly Magazine from New York (http://encompassingcrescent.com/)

Major areas of interest include:
Islam and Democracy,
Modern Islamic Political Thought,
Islamic Social Sciences (esp. Political science),
Islamic Modernism in India and Pakistan,
Islamic Movements, Trends and Thinkers of South Asia,
and
Reviewing Books. 

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