Program in Iranian Studies Iran Colloquium: “Hidden Caliphate, Sufi Saints beyond the Oxus and Indus”

The Program in Iranian Studies Iran Colloquium presents Waleed Ziad, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 

“Hidden Caliphate, Sufi Saints beyond the Oxus and Indus.”

In the last decade, Ziad has conducted fieldwork on historical and contemporary religious revivalism and reform as well as material culture in over 140 towns across Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan. He completed his PhD in History at Yale, where his dissertation won the university-wide Theron Rockwell Field Prize