P.K. Yasser Arafath is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Delhi, India. He holds a PhD in history from University of Hyderabad (HCU). He was the Dr. L.M. Singhvi Visiting Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge in 2017. With a focus on transliterated texts in Arabi-Malayalam, his current research interests lie in examining the making of vernacular frontiers in the Indian Ocean region from the 16th cen-tury. His forthcoming book, titled, Sultana’s Sisters: Gender, Genres, and Histories in South Asian Muslim Women’s Fiction (co-edited with Haris Qadeer, Routledge, 2020), explores the ‘in-visible women’ in Muslim literary traditions in the subcontinent. He has published research arti-cles in, among others, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Medieval History Journal, Economic and Political Weekly, and Social Scientist, apart from the chapters published in a number of ed-ited volumes. He has written extensively, in English and Malayalam, on culture, politics, history and violence in India, with a special focus on Kerala. He has received research fellowships and grants from Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR), Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), and the University of Delhi. He is currently completing his monograph Intimate Texts: The Malabar Ulema and Lyrical Resistance in the Age of Fasad (c. 1500-1875) for publication.