Taj Hashmi

He worked as professor of Islamic and Asian history, politics and culture, at various universities, including the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University in Canada; Dhaka University and Independent University in Bangladesh; National University of Singapore, and Curtin University in Australia.

He was born in India, raised and educated in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Australia. He has extensive living and hands-on working experience in the Asia-Pacific and North America regions. He is fluent in several Asian and “Islamic” languages.

Dr. Hashmi acquired his Ph.D. in modern South Asian history at the University of Western Australia (1986). His Masters (First Class) in Modern History of the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia was acquired at Dhaka University. He has a B.A. honors in Islamic History & Culture from the same university.

His teaching and research interests include: Political Islam, Islamic Resurgence and Militancy, Ethnicity, Regionalism and Security in the Asia-Pacific; Civil-Military Relations, Religion, Identity, Democracy and Civil Society in South Asia; Culture, Governance and Underdevelopment in the Asia-Pacific; Popular Nationalism, Insurgency and Civil War in Post-Colonial South Asia.

Dr. Hashmi’s major publications include four books: Women and Islam in Bangladesh (Palgrave-Macmillan, New York 2000) [a best seller in Asian Studies], Pakistan as a Peasant Utopia (Westview Press, Boulder 1992) and a co-edited volume, Islam, Muslims and the Modern State (Macmillan & St. Martin’s Press 1994).

He was a South Asian Visiting Fellow at the Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University (1994-95), and a Visiting Fellow at the National Centre for South Asian Studies, Melbourne (1994). He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (since 1997) and on the editorial board of the Contemporary South Asia (since 1996).

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Last updated: 06/23/2008