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M. Nazif Mohib Shahrani

Professor of Anthropology, Central Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington

Central Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington

KazakhstanKyrgyzstanUzbekistanAfghanistan
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About

I have been engaged in historically informed ethnographic study of state-society relations in multi-ethnic post-colonial and post-Soviet Central and Southwestern Asia; reasons for state failures and uses and abuses of religion (Islam) in politics among other things.

Research Interests

PoliticsReligionInternational RelationsSocietyMigrationEconomicsCultureEnvironmentGeography