Hasan Zahid Siddiqui
Assistant Professor
hasan.siddiqui@ubc.ca
Research Area
About
About Hasan: : Hasan Siddiqui is a historian of South Asia specializing in early-modern intellectual history. His research interests include the history of encyclopedias, the history of political thought, and the history of the book. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Chicago. He is an associate editor at the Journal of South Asian Intellectual History.
Areas of Specialty:
Early Modern South Asia
Research / Reading Group
I run a weekly reading group in premodern Persian texts. Some of our recent and anticipated readings include courtly chronicles, epistolary manuals, and the recorded discourses of Sufi shaykhs. Please get in touch if you are interested in joining.
Current Areas of Concentration
Intellectual history of the Mughal empire and Muslim South Asia.