Artefacts of Devotion
A Sufi Repertoire of the Qalandariyya in Sehwan Sharif, Sindh, Pakistan
Michel Boivin
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Michel Boivin was trained at Sorbonne University, Paris (France) in Islamic Studies and Contemporary History. He is currently Research Fellow at the Centre for South Asian Studies, CNRS-EHESS. He also teaches history of South Asia at University of Lumiere Lyon 2 and University of Savoie. Michel Boivin's work focussed on the social and cultural evolution of Muslim communities, from British colonization to the post-partition period. His fieldwork is mainly restricted to the Southern part of the Indus valley. He is currently heading an interdisciplinary study group working on Sehwan Sharif. He published, as author and editor, seven books and. wrote about 70 articles published in leading academic journals. His last work was edited with Matt Cook, Interpreting the Sindh World: Essays on Culture and History, Karachi, OUP, 2010 and a forthcoming book is devoted to Lal Shahbaz Qalandar and the Qalandariyya in South Asia, and published in French by Editions du Cerf, Paris.