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'''Usha Sanyal''' is an American scholar and historian. Her PhD dissertation analysed the Islamic legal scholar [[Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi]].<ref>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sai/dissertations.html Doctoral Dissertations of Recent Alumini, Columbia University.</ref> She is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at [[Wingate University]] in [[North Carolina]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}}
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'''Usha Sanyal''' is an American scholar and historian. Her PhD dissertation analysed the Islamic legal scholar [[Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi]].<ref>http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sai/dissertations.html Doctoral Dissertations of Recent Alumini, Columbia University.</ref> She is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at [[Wingate University]], [[North Carolina]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}} 
==Education==
==Education==
Sanyal has graduated with a BA (Honors) in Sociology, minor in Economics from Delhi University, India and MA in Southeast Asian Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Her M Phil. in History, was done from Columbia University, South Asia and Southeast Asia. She also completed a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University in 1990.<ref>https://ushasanyal.org/</ref>{{Better source needed|date=August 2021}}
Sanyal has graduated with a BA (Honors) in Sociology, minor in Economics from Delhi University, India and MA in Southeast Asian Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Her M Phil. in History, was done from Columbia University, South Asia and Southeast Asia. She also completed a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University in 1990.<ref>https://ushasanyal.org/</ref>{{Better source needed|date=August 2021}}


==Languages==
==Languages==
Sanyal's research includes a knowledge of the English, French, and Hindi/Urdu Languages.{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}}  
Sanyal's research includes a knowledge of the English, French, and Hindi/Urdu Languages.{{Citation needed|date=August 2021}}


== Works ==
== Works ==
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*“South Asian Islamic Education in the Pre-Colonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial Periods” In Global Education Systems. Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia, eds. Padma M. Sarangapani and Rekha Pappu (Forthcoming, Springer Nature India)
*“South Asian Islamic Education in the Pre-Colonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial Periods” In Global Education Systems. Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia, eds. Padma M. Sarangapani and Rekha Pappu (Forthcoming, Springer Nature India)
*“Sufism through the Prism of Shari‘a: A Reformist Barelwi Girls’ Madrasa in Uttar Pradesh, India” In Katherine P. Ewing and Rosemary Corbett, eds., Modern Sufis and the State: Rethinking Islam and Politics in South Asia and Beyond (Columbia University Press, forthcoming).
*“Sufism through the Prism of Shari‘a: A Reformist Barelwi Girls’ Madrasa in Uttar Pradesh, India” In Katherine P. Ewing and Rosemary Corbett, eds., Modern Sufis and the State: Rethinking Islam and Politics in South Asia and Beyond (Columbia University Press, forthcoming).
*“Discipline and Nurture: Living in a Girls’ Madrasa, Living in Community,”  co-authored with Sumbul Farah, in Modern Asian Studies (2018)<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/discipline-and-nurture-living-in-a-girls-madrasa-living-in-community/2CD6C822FA6EA463EAC2C1942ABE1732/share/4a349f1b234ea3b98f5e2c977c6b70572598e4ec|doi = 10.1017/S0026749X17000166|title = Discipline and Nurture: Living in a girls' madrasa, living in community|year = 2019|last1 = Sanyal|first1 = Usha|last2 = Farah|first2 = Sumbul|journal = Modern Asian Studies|volume = 53|issue = 2|pages = 411–450|s2cid = 149768146}}</ref>
*“Discipline and Nurture: Living in a Girls’ Madrasa, Living in Community,”  co-authored with Sumbul Farah, in Modern Asian Studies (2018)<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/discipline-and-nurture-living-in-a-girls-madrasa-living-in-community/2CD6C822FA6EA463EAC2C1942ABE1732/share/4a349f1b234ea3b98f5e2c977c6b70572598e4ec|doi = 10.1017/S0026749X17000166|title = Discipline and Nurture: Living in a girls' madrasa, living in community|year = 2019|last1 = Sanyal|first1 = Usha|last2 = Farah|first2 = Sumbul|journal = Modern Asian Studies|volume = 53|issue = 2|pages = 411–450|s2cid = 149768146}}</ref>
 
*“Al-Huda International: How Muslim Women Empower Themselves through Online Study of the Qur’an,” in Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World (2015) 13(3): 449-460.
*“Al-Huda International: How Muslim Women Empower Themselves through Online Study of the Qur’an,” in Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World (2015) 13(3): 449-460.  
 
*“Changing Concepts of the Person in Two Ahl-e Sunnat/Barelwi Texts for Women: The Sunni Bihishti Zewar and Jannati Zewar,  in Usha Sanyal, David Gilmartin, and Sandria Freitag, eds., Muslim Voices: Community and the Self in South Asia, eds. Usha Sanyal, David Gilmartin,  and Sandria Freitag (New Delhi: Yoda Press. 2013)
*“Changing Concepts of the Person in Two Ahl-e Sunnat/Barelwi Texts for Women: The Sunni Bihishti Zewar and Jannati Zewar,  in Usha Sanyal, David Gilmartin, and Sandria Freitag, eds., Muslim Voices: Community and the Self in South Asia, eds. Usha Sanyal, David Gilmartin,  and Sandria Freitag (New Delhi: Yoda Press. 2013)
 
*“Barelwis.” In The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd ed., pp.&nbsp;94–99. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2011.
*“Barelwis.” In The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd ed., pp. 94-99. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2011.
 
*“Sufi Ritual Practice among the Barkatiyya Sayyids of U.P.: Nuri Miyan’s Life and Urs, Late Nineteenth – Early Twentieth Centuries.” In Barbara D. Metcalf, ed., Islam in South Asia in Practice. Series ed. Donald S. Lopez, Jr. Princeton University Press, 2009.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691044200/islam-in-south-asia-in-practice|isbn = 9780691044200|title = Islam in South Asia in Practice|date = 28 September 2009|last1 = Metcalf|first1 = Barbara D.}}</ref>
*“Sufi Ritual Practice among the Barkatiyya Sayyids of U.P.: Nuri Miyan’s Life and Urs, Late Nineteenth – Early Twentieth Centuries.” In Barbara D. Metcalf, ed., Islam in South Asia in Practice. Series ed. Donald S. Lopez, Jr. Princeton University Press, 2009.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691044200/islam-in-south-asia-in-practice|isbn = 9780691044200|title = Islam in South Asia in Practice|date = 28 September 2009|last1 = Metcalf|first1 = Barbara D.}}</ref>
*“Ahl-i Sunnat Madrasas: The Madrasa Manzar-i Islam, Bareilly, and Jamia Ashrafiyya, Mubarakpur.” In Jamal Malik ed., Madrasas in South Asia. Routledge, 2008.
*“Ahl-i Sunnat Madrasas: The Madrasa Manzar-i Islam, Bareilly, and Jamia Ashrafiyya, Mubarakpur.” In Jamal Malik ed., Madrasas in South Asia. Routledge, 2008.
*“Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi.” Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2007.
*“Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi.” Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2007.
*“Tourists, Pilgrims and Saints:The Shrine of Mu`in al-Din Chishti of Ajmer” In Carol Henderson and Maxine Weisgrau, eds., Raj Rhapsodies: Tourism, Heritage and the Seduction of History. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., U.K., 2007.
*“Tourists, Pilgrims and Saints:The Shrine of Mu`in al-Din Chishti of Ajmer” In Carol Henderson and Maxine Weisgrau, eds., Raj Rhapsodies: Tourism, Heritage and the Seduction of History. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., U.K., 2007.
 
*“Barelwis.” In Jane D. McAuliffe, ed., Encyclopedia of the Quran, vol. 1, pp.&nbsp;201–203. Leiden:E. J. Brill, 2002.
*“Barelwis.” In Jane D. McAuliffe, ed., Encyclopedia of the Quran, vol. 1, pp. 201-203. Leiden:E. J. Brill, 2002.
*“The [Re-]Construction of South Asian Muslim Identity in Queens, New York.” In Carla Petievich, ed., The Expanding Landscape: South Asians and the Diaspora, pp.&nbsp;141–152. New Delhi: Manohar, 1999.
 
*“The [Re-]Construction of South Asian Muslim Identity in Queens, New York.” In Carla Petievich, ed., The Expanding Landscape: South Asians and the Diaspora, pp. 141-152. New Delhi: Manohar, 1999.
 
*“Generational Changes in the Leadership of the Ahl-e Sunnat Movement in North India during the Twentieth Century.” Modern Asian Studies 32, 3 (1998): 635-656.
*“Generational Changes in the Leadership of the Ahl-e Sunnat Movement in North India during the Twentieth Century.” Modern Asian Studies 32, 3 (1998): 635-656.
 
*“Are Wahhabis Kafirs? Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and His Sword of the Haramayn.” In Muhammad Khalid Masud, Brinkley Messick, and David S. Powers, eds., Islamic Legal Interpretation: Muftis and Their Fatwas, pp.&nbsp;204–213. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996.
*“Are Wahhabis Kafirs? Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and His Sword of the Haramayn.” In Muhammad Khalid Masud, Brinkley Messick, and David S. Powers, eds., Islamic Legal Interpretation: Muftis and Their Fatwas, pp. 204-213. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996.
*“Barelwis.” In John L. Esposito, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, vol. 1, pp.&nbsp;200–203. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
 
*“Pir, Shaikh, and Prophet: The Personalization of Religious Authority in Ahmad Riza Khan’s Life.” In Contributions to Indian Sociology 28, 1 (1994): 35-66. (Also published in T. N. Madan, ed., Muslim Communities of South Asia: Culture, Society, and Power, pp.&nbsp;405–428. New Delhi: Manohar, 1995.)
*“Barelwis.” In John L. Esposito, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, vol. 1, pp. 200-203. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
 
*“Pir, Shaikh, and Prophet: The Personalization of Religious Authority in Ahmad Riza Khan’s Life.” In Contributions to Indian Sociology 28, 1 (1994): 35-66. (Also published in T. N. Madan, ed., Muslim Communities of South Asia: Culture, Society, and Power, pp. 405-428. New Delhi: Manohar, 1995.)


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