{"id":1314,"date":"2020-10-20T16:10:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T20:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/?page_id=1314"},"modified":"2020-10-20T16:10:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T20:10:12","slug":"muhammed-niyas-ashraf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/muhammed-niyas-ashraf\/","title":{"rendered":"Muhammed Niyas Ashraf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Muhammed.Niyas_.Ashraf.Photo_.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1315 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Muhammed.Niyas_.Ashraf.Photo_-e1603224584460-279x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Muhammed.Niyas_.Ashraf.Photo_-e1603224584460-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Muhammed.Niyas_.Ashraf.Photo_-e1603224584460-951x1024.jpg 951w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Muhammed.Niyas_.Ashraf.Photo_-e1603224584460-768x827.jpg 768w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Muhammed.Niyas_.Ashraf.Photo_-e1603224584460-1426x1536.jpg 1426w, https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Muhammed.Niyas_.Ashraf.Photo_-e1603224584460.jpg 1589w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 279px) 100vw, 279px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Muhammed Niyas Ashraf <\/strong>is a Doctoral Fellow at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Culture and Societies, Freie University Berlin. His Ph.D. project &#8216;Locating Muslim Piety: Arabic- Malayalam Devotional Poetry of Mappilas in the nineteenth century Indian Ocean Littoral&#8217; unravels the different expressions of Islamic piety reflected in Arabic-Malayalam literature under the supervision of Prof. Torsten Tschacher. He received his M.Phil. in History from the University of Delhi for his dissertation titled &#8216;Reading Makti Tangal: Islamic Modernity and Reform in Colonial Kerala, 1884-1912&#8217;. His recent publication includes &#8216;Modernity and Reform in Colonial Kerala: Revisiting the Contributions of Sayyid Sanaullah Makti Tangal&#8217; (Social Orbit, 2017) and edited three volumes of &#8216;Dictionary of Martyrs: India&#8217;s Freedom Struggle, 1857-1947&#8217; (ICHR, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lectures:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Saintly\/Sufi Piety in M\u0101l\u0101 Literature: Muslim Liturgical Sphere and Cult of Sufi Saints in the Nineteenth Century Malabar<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Muhammed Niyas Ashraf is a Doctoral Fellow at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Culture and Societies, Freie University Berlin. His Ph.D. project &#8216;Locating Muslim Piety: Arabic- Malayalam Devotional Poetry of Mappilas in the nineteenth century Indian Ocean Littoral&#8217; unravels the different expressions of Islamic piety reflected in Arabic-Malayalam literature under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-1314","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry","6":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1314\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entangledworlds.utoronto.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}