Sana Haroon
Sana Haroon is an Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies, College of Liberal Arts at University of Massachusetts, Boston[1] as of September 2022. According to her university profile, her research focuses on Islam and Muslim social organization within the territorial and spatial configurations of modern South Asia.
According to her bio, she has published no books, papers or research pertaining to Hindus, rights of Hindus, India or the Indian Government. Her scholarship largely concerns Islam in Colonial India. They do not adequately contribute in understanding her commentary on the existing state of India, Hindus or Muslims.
In 2021, she along with Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme leader of the Taliban, co-signed a letter supporting the "Dismantling Global Hindutva" Conference, as an academic and scholar and made the following allegation:
"the current government of India [in 2021] has instituted discriminatory policies including beef bans, restrictions on religious conversion and interfaith weddings, and the introduction of religious discrimination into India’s citizenship laws. The result has been a horrifying rise in religious and caste-based violence, including hate crimes, lynchings, and rapes directed against Muslims, non-conforming Dalits, Sikhs, Christians, adivasis and other dissident Hindus. Women of these communities are especially targeted. Meanwhile, the government has used every tool of harassment and intimidation to muzzle dissent. Dozens of student activists and human rights defenders are currently languishing in jail indefinitely without due process under repressive anti-terrorism laws."[2]
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Books[edit]
- Haroon, Sana. Frontier of Faith: Islam in the Indo-Afghan Borderland. London: Hurst and Co., 2007; New York: Columbia University Press, 2008; Paperback, 2012. [1]
Articles[edit]
- Haroon, Sana. "The Spatial Imaginaries of Mujaddidī Sufis and Political Integration in the Northwestern Borderlands of Colonial India." Journal of Contemporary Religion, vol. 36, no. 2, 2021. Link to source
- Haroon, Sana. "Contextualizing the Deobandi Approach to Congregation and Management of Mosques in Colonial North India." Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, 2016. [2]
References[edit]
- ↑ Sana Haroon page on University of Massachusetts, Boston accessed September 30, 2022
- ↑ "Letter of Support", Dismantling Global Hindutva Conference website, accessed August 7, 2022