Yoginder Singh Sikand (born 1967) is an Indian writer and academic who has written several books on

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-related issues in India.

Early life and education

Sikand received his B.A. (Hons.) in economics from St. Stephen's College of the

University of Delhi Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and is recognized as an Institute of Eminence (IoE ...

(1985–88), followed by an MA in sociology (1990–92) and an

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in sociology, from

Jawaharlal Nehru University Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is a public major research university located in New Delhi, India. It was established in 1969 and named after Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister. The university is known for leading faculties an ...

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(1992–94). Thereafter, he received his PhD in history, focusing on the Tablighi Jama'at, from Royal Holloway College, University of London (1995–98). He has been a post-doctoral fellow at Royal Holloway College (1999–2001), and the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World at the

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in the Netherlands (2002–2004).

Career

Sikand was a reader in the department of Islamic studies at Hamdard University in New Delhi and was then appointed professor at the Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies at

Jamia Millia Islamia Jamia Millia Islamia () is a central university located in New Delhi, India. Originally established at Aligarh, United Provinces (present-day Uttar Pradesh, India) during the British Raj in 1920, it moved to its current location in Okhla i ...

in New Delhi. He currently lives in

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and

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. Sikand writes two blogs, one about his own writing and another titled, '

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Reforms in India'.madrasareforms.blogspot.com/

Works

* ''The Origins and Development of the Tablighi jam'aat: (1920–2000). A cross-country comparative study.''(2002) New Delhi: Orient Longman. . * ''Sacred Spaces: Exploring Traditions of Shared Faith in India'' (2003). New Delhi: Penguin Books. * ''Muslims in India since 1947: Islamic perspectives on interfaith relations'' (2004). London: Routledge Curzon. . * ''Islam, caste, and Dalit-Muslim relations in India'' (2004). New Delhi: Global Media Publications. * ''Struggling to be heard South Asian Muslim voices South Asian Muslim voices''. Global Media Publications, 2004. * ''Bastions of the Believers: Madrasas and Islamic Education in India''. Penguin Books, 2006. . * ''Islamist Militancy in Kashmir: The Case of Lashkar-e Taiba'' published in ''The practice of war: production, reproduction and communication of armed violence''.

References

External links

Yoginder Sikand columns
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Muslim decline and responsibilities of Ulema
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Madrasa Reforms in India
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