Humeira Iqtidar
Lecturer in Politics
Contact Details:
Email: humeira.iqtidar@kcl.ac.uk
Biography
Dr Humeira Iqtidar joined King's College London in 2011. She has studied at the University of Cambridge (UK), McGill University (Canada) and Quaid-e-Azam University (Pakistan). Before joining King's London she was based at the University of Cambridge as a fellow of King’s College and the Centre of South Asian Studies.
Research
Humeira’s research is concerned with exploring the contours of social and political theory particularly in the South Asian context. She is interested in the shifting demarcations of state and market, society and economy, secularism and secularization. She has carried out ethnographic research with two Islamist parties in Pakistan, Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamaat-ud-Dawa. Her current research project takes a comparative approach to the dynamics of the Tablighi Jamaat in UK and in Pakistan.
Selected Publications
Books
Humeira Iqtidar, Secularising Islamists? Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamaat-ud-Dawa in Pakistan, University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Humeira Iqtidar and David Lehmann eds., Fundamentalisms: Critical Concepts in Religions Routledge, 2011. (4 volumes)
Journal Special Issue and Forum
Humeira Iqtidar and David Lehmann, eds., Special Issue on “Secularism and Citizenship in the Non-European World”, Citizenship Studies, 2012
Humeira Iqtidar and David Gilmartin eds., Journal Forum on “Secularism and the State In Pakistan”, Modern Asian Studies, 45:3, 2011.
Journal Publications
“Secularism Beyond the State: The ‘State’ and the ‘Market’ in Islamist Imagination” Modern Asian Studies, 45:3, 2011.
“Collatoral Damage from the Afghanistan War: Jamaat ud Dawa and Lashkar-e-Tayyaba Militancy” Middle East Report 251, Summer 2009.
“Terrorism and Islamism: Differences, Dynamics and Dilemmas” in special issue on ‘Terrorism, Security and Business’, Global Business and Economic Review, 10/2, 2008.
Book Chapters
“Post-Islamism: Beyond the Failure of Islamism in Pakistan” in Asef Bayat ed., Post Islamism: How Political Islam is Changing, Oxford University Press, 2011
“Colonial Secularism and the Genesis of Islamism in North India” in Gareth Stedman-Jones and Ira Katznelson eds., Religion and the Political Imagination, Cambridge University Press, f2010.
“Jama‘at-e-Islami Pakistan: Learning from The Left” in Naveeda Khan ed., Beyond Crisis: Re-evaluating Pakistan, Routledge, 2010.
“Muslim Cosmopolitanism: Contemporary Practice and Social Theory” in Bryan Turner ed., Handbook of Globalization, Taylor & Francis, 2009.
Selected Media and General Audience Articles
“Why do natural disasters impact some areas more than others? Structural Impoverishment and the Floods in Pakistan” Social Science Research Council http://itemsandissues.ssrc.org 15 September 2010
“Who are the Taliban in Swat?” www.opendemocracy.net 30 April, 2009
“The Game Has Just Begun: Pakistan-India Peace Process” March, 29, 2005, Dawn Magazine Lead Article.
“NGOs at the World Social Forum and Implications for Activism”, 15 February, 2004, Znet www.zmag.org
“Celebration In Iraqi Streets?” April 25, 2003, Dawn Opinion Page.
Journal Papers Under Review or In Preparation
“Secularism and Dilemmas of Citizenship for the Majority” Citizenship Studies special issue
“Making a ‘Just’ Profit: Islamic Pietists and the Market”
“Conspiracy Theory as Political Imagination: The Case of Blackwater in Pakistan”