Recent Faculty Publications

Ali Asani

Books:
Let's Study Urdu: An Introductory Course. Yale University Press, 2007.

Let's Study Urdu: An Introduction to the Script. Yale University Press, 2007.

Ecstacy and Enlightenment: The Ismaili Devotional Literature of South Asia. I.B. Tauris, 2002.

Articles and Chapters:
“On Muslims Knowing the Muslim Other,” Muslims in the United States: Identity, Influence and Innovation. Phillipa Strum et al. (eds.), Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2005, 181-190.

“Babar,” “Zia ad-Din Barani,” “Farid ad-Din Ganj-i Shakar,” “Gesudaraz,” “Humayun,” “India,” “Muhammad ibn al-Qasim,” “Poetry: Indian,” “Razia Sultana,” in Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia. J.Meri et al. (eds.), Routledge Reference, 2006.

"Movements with an Islamic origin: The Bahai and the Ahmadiyya,” Global Religions: A
Handbook. M. Juergensmeyer (ed.), Oxford, 2006.

“Folk legends from the Indus and Traditions of Spirituality,” Legends of the Indus. Asia Ink, 2004.

“South Asian Literatures and the Qur’an,” Encyclopedia of the Qur’an. J. Macauliffe et al (eds.).

"Islam in South Asia” and “Islamic Poetry,” Encyclopedia of Religion, 2nd Edition.

“Ismailism xi. Ginan (Devotional Song) Literature,” Encyclopedia Iranica. E. Yarshater (ed.).

“The dargah of Muin ad-Din Chishti in Ajmer,” Dargahs: Abodes of Saints. M. Currim and G. Mitchell (eds.), Mumbai: Marg Publications, 2004.

Francis Clooney

Books:
Beyond Compare: St. Francis de Sales and Sri Vedanta Desika on Loving Surrender to God. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2008.

The Truth, the Way, the Life: Christian Commentary on the Three Holy Mantras of the Srivaisnava Hindus. Leuven: Peeters Publishing, 2008

Maulana Daud’s Cåndåyan : A Critical Study. Manohar: New Delhi. (Forthcoming)

Articles and Chapters:
"Ramanuja and the Meaning of Krishna's Descent and Embodiment on This Earth," Krsna. Edited by Edwin Bryant. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. 329-356.

“Understanding and the Refusal to Understand as Complementary Dynamics in Jesuit Missionary Learning,” Contributions to Indian and Cross-Cultural Studies: Volume in Commemoration of Wilhelm Halbfass. Karin Preisendanz (ed.), Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press.

“Exegesis, Theology, and Spirituality: Reading the Dvaya Mantra according to Vedanta Desika,” International Journal of Hindu Studies, 11.1, 27-62.

“Comparative Theology,” The Oxford Handbook to Systematic Theology. John Webster, Kathryn Tanner, Iain Torrance (eds), Oxford University Press, 2007, 653-669.

“Yes to Caste, No to Religion? Or Perhaps the Reverse: Re-Using Roberto de Nobili’s Distinctions among Morality, Caste, and Religion” and “Robert de Nobili’s Mission in India: A Voice from the West,” Interculturation of Religion. C.Joe Arun.Chennai (ed.), Institute for Dialogue of Religions and Cultures, 158-174; 228-232.

Naseem Hines

“Love and Symbolism in Indo-Sufi Poetry and Music,” Ragavani Ragamala’s Journal of Indian Music and Dance. webmaster@ragavani.org.

“The Concept of Beauty in the Medieval Hindi Premakhyan” Anthology of Papers presented at the International Society for the Study of Human Ideas on Ultimate Reality and Meaning at University of Pune. (Forthcoming)

Book Review of Usha Jain’s “Advanced Hindi Grammar in South Asia Language Pedagogy and Technology.” Electronic Journal of the South Asia Language Resource Center. salpat.uchicago.edu/-8k.

“From Ghazal to Film Music: The Case of Ghalib” Classics on Celluloid: Bollywood Recasting the Tradition. Heidi Pauwels (ed.), Routledge. London: 2007. (This article is now being considered for Urdu translation by Al-Aqreba quarterly of Islamabad, Pakistan.)

Urdu translation, “British Raj: Munshi Premchand in the Role of Poet, Priest, and Philosopher” in July-September issue of the Urdu quarterly ‘Al-Aqreba, Islamabad, Pakistan: 2007.

Urdu translation, “Sanskritic and Persian Traditions of Learning in Medieval India: Interactions and Exchanges in South Asian Intellectual Culture,” in October- December issue of the Urdu quarterly ‘Al- Aqreba, Islamabad, Pakistan: 2007.

Anne Monius

Books:
Singing the Lives of Śiva's Saints: History, Aesthetics, and Religious Identity in Tamil-Speaking South India, forthcoming.

Imagining a Place for Buddhism: Literary Culture and Religious Community in Tamil-Speaking South India.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Articles:
"Purana / Puranam: Modes of Narrative Temporality in Sanskrit and Tamil," Proceedings of the Conference on the Interaction of Sanskrit and Tamil. Pondicherry: French Indological Institute, forthcoming.

"Inter-tradition Debate in Classical India" and "Inter-tradition Debate in India, 600-1700,"Sources of Indian Tradition, revised 3rd edition.  New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming.

"Dance Before Doom: Krsna in the Non-Hindu Literature of Early Medieval South India,” Alternative Krishnas: Regional and Vernacular Variations on a Hindu Deity. Guy Beck (ed.), Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. 

"Origins of Hindu Ethics," A Companion to Religious Ethics. William Schweiker (ed.), Blackwell Publishers, 2004, 330-340.

“Love, Violence, and the Aesthetics of Disgust: Saivas and Jains in Medieval South India," The Journal of Indian Philosophy 32 (2004), 113-172.

"Siva as Heroic Father: Theology and Hagiography in Medieval South India," Harvard Theological Review 92:2 (2004):165-197.

"The Many Lives of Dandin: The Kavyadarsa in Sanskrit and Tamil," The International Journal of Hindu Studies 4/2 (April 2000):1-37.

Parimal Patil

"Dharmakīrti's White-Lie." Pramāṇakīrtiḥ. Papers dedicated to Ernst Steinkellner on the occasion of his 70th birthday, Part 2. B. Kellner, H. Krasser, and M.T. Much, and H. Tauscher (eds). Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 70.02 (2007), Wien: 597-619.

"Consuming Scripture: Philosophical Hermeneutics in Classical India," SITES Journal, Faculty of Letters, University of Nagoya, Series No. 7, 2006, pp. 47-61, 117-133.

"Traditionalism and Innovation: Philosophy, Exegesis, and Intellectual History in Jñānaśrīmitra's Apohaprakaraṇa" (w/ L.J. McCrea), Journal of Indian Philosophy 34, No. 4, August 2006, pp. 303-366.

Leonard van der Kuijp

“The Names of ‘Gos Lo tsa ba Gzhon nu dpal (1392-1481),” The Pandita and the Siddha. Tibetan Studies in Honor of E. Gene Smith, ed. R. Prats (Dharamshala: Amnye Machen Institute, 2007), 279-85.

[with Rachel M. McCleary] “The Formation of the Rise of the Tibetan State Religion: The Geluk School 1492-1642,” Center for International Development, Kennedy School, Harvard University, Working Paper no. 154.

“On the Authorship and Date of the Ecclesiastic Chronicle Chos ‘byung rin po che’i gter mdzod bstan pa gsal bar byed pa’i nyi ‘od,” Tibetstudien. Festschrift fuer Dieter Schuh zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. P. Maurer and P. Schwieger (Bonn: Bi’erische Verlagsanstalt, 2007), 127-48.

“*Nagabodhi / Nagabuddhi: Notes on the Guhyasamaja Literature,” Pramanakirti. Papers Dedicated to Ernst Steinkellner, ed. H. Krasser et al. (Wien: Arbeitskreis fuer Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien Universitaet Wien, 2007), 1002-22.

Michael Witzel

Books:
Rig-Veda. Das heilige Wissen. Erster und zweiter Liederkreis. Aus dem vedischen Sanskrit übersetzt und herausgegeben von Michael Witzel und Toshifumi Goto unter Mitarbeit von Eijiro Doyama und Mislav Jezic. Frankfurt: Verlag der Weltreligionen. 2007, pp. 1-889.

Articles and Chapters:
“Myths and Consequences. Review of Stefan Arvidsson, Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science,” Science, vol. 317, 28 Sept. 2007, 1868-1869 (Manuscript Number: 1141619), Chicago University Press 2006.

“Out of Africa: the Journey of the Oldest Tales of Humankind” Generalized Science of Humanity Series, Vol. I. Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa 2006: 21-65.

“Brahmanical Reactions to Foreign Influences and to Social and Religious Change,” Between the Empires. Society in India between 300 BCE and 400 CE. Olivelle, P. (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006: 457-499.

“Creation myths,” Proceedings of the Pre-Symposium of RHIN and 7th ESCA Harvard-Kyoto Round Table. T. Osada (ed.), Published by the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RHIN), Kyoto, Japan 2006: 284-318.

“Memories of a Hindu Nepal: Accounts of a Personal Journey Swadharma,” Harvard Hinduism Journal May 2006: 18-24.

“Rama's Realm: Indocentric Rewritings of Early South Asian Archaeology and History,” Archaeological Fantasies. How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents the Past and Misleads the Public. G. G. Fagan (ed.), London/New York: Routledge 2006:203-232 -- Discussion by Colin Renfrew

“Indocentrism: Autochthonous visions of ancient India.” The Indo-Aryan controversy : evidence and inference in Indian history. Edwin F. Bryant and Laurie L. Patton (eds.), London & New York: Routledge, 2005: 341-404.