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(2022): An innovative, born-digital open-access book published by MIT Press. It uses multimedia and interactive storytelling to rethink how Islamic history is conceptualized, moving away from strictly linear or geographically limited frameworks. The Market in Poetry in the Persian World

offer a revolutionary re-examination of Islamic history, Sufism, messianic movements, and the cultural frameworks of the Persianate world . As a prominent scholar and Dean of the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations , Dr. Bashir shifts academic focus away from rigid geographic boundaries and uniform timelines. Instead, his texts prioritize human agency, visual arts, literature, and the complex ways human bodies interact with the divine. shahzad bashir books

Instead, he discusses Islam as a phenomenon and a discourse, observed across a dizzying array of evidence: the built environment, material objects, paintings, linguistic traces, narratives, and social situations. Focusing on time as a human construct, the book interprets stories and images, paying close attention to evidence and methods of interpretation. This multimodal work is not just a book but a dynamic digital experience that is changing the way scholars think and write about their relationship to time, Islam, and history itself. As a prominent scholar and Dean of the

Bashir weaves together evidence from Sufi literature and Persian miniature paintings to explore representations of the body in three key areas: religious rituals and ascetic practices; the articulation of love, desire, and gender through poetry; and the role of miracles in establishing a saint's authority. Critics have praised it as a "groundbreaking work" that presents a "novel perspective" on the relationships between body, soul, society, gender, and the cosmos. Instead, he discusses Islam as a phenomenon and