About
Muntazir Ali is a Ph.D. candidate in Religious Studies at Brown. He has an MSt. in Modern South Asian Studies from Oxford and a post-graduate diploma in Islamic Studies and Humanities from the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. Muntazir’s dissertation “To Samarkand, Delhi, and Back to the Mountains: Space, Place, and Belonging in “greater Badakhshan,” ca. 1750-1969,” is a study of ideas about space, place, and religio-political identities in Chitral, a node in the historical “greater Badakhshan” region and a mountainous district in today’s north-western Pakistan, between ca. 1750 and 1969 C.E.