About Husnul Amin

Husnul Amin is a Fulbright fellow at the South Asia Center, University of Pennsylvania. His research project concerns the study of a new social movement on the Pak-Afghan border called the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement PTM. He obtained his Ph.D. in Development Studies (with further specialization in Political Sociology) in 2010 from the International Institute of Social Studies (The Hague). His dissertation concerned the genesis and proliferation of post-Islamist intellectual and social-political trajectories in Pakistan. He has been awarded Fulbright Research Fellowship, 2019-2020 at Stockton University, Galloway, N.J, USA. He was awarded post-doc fellowship supported by the DRS-COFUND Fellowship Program of Freie Universität Berlin and the European Commission, hosted by the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures & Societies (BGSMCS) during his research stay, March 2013 - July 2014; availed fellowship at William and Mary, Virginia, USA (January 2014), and research stay at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA (October 2015). Under his supervision, 8 Ph.D. and 30 M.Phil. scholars have successfully defended their dissertations, others are in submission stage. His main areas of research and teaching include: religion and politics in the Muslim world; Islamic social movements and post-Islamist trends; conflict, peace and development; neoliberal globalization and contemporary Islam, and International Political Economy. A select list of his articles published in journals of repute such as Romanian Journal of Political Science; Journal of Islamic Studies; Hamdard Islamicus; Pakistan Perspectives; Pakistan Journal of History and Culture; Pakistan Journal of Criminology, Historicus etc. His recent book titles: "Observing Variants of Post-Islamism: Intellectual discourses and social movements." Dr Amin is Executive Director of the Iqbal International Institute for Research and Dialogue (IRD), and an Associate Professor at the Department of Politics & International Relations, International Islamic University Islamabad. He may be contacted at: hunulamin@hotmail.com View all posts by Husnul Amin →