Talal asad biography of abraham lincoln
Lincoln was inaugurated as the 16th president on march 4th and even as he took the oath of office seven states of the American Union had declared their secession.!
Talal Asad
Anthropologist at the CUNY Graduate Center
Talal Asad (born ) is a Saudi-born British-Pakistani cultural anthropologist who is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Talal Asad.
His prolific body of work mainly focuses on religiosity, Middle Eastern studies, postcolonialism, and notions of power, law and discipline. He is also known for his writing calling for an anthropology of secularism.
His work has had a significant influence beyond his home discipline of anthropology.
As Donovan Schaefer writes:
The gravitational field of Asad’s influence has emanated far from his home discipline and reshaped the landscape of other humanistic disciplines around him.[9]
Biography
Talal Asad was born in April in Medina, Saudi Arabia.
His parents are Muhammad Asad, an Austrian diplomat and writer who converted from Judaism to Islam in his twenties, and Munira Hussein