Shamim Hossain

Shamim Hossain

Shamim Hossain is a second-year MA candidate in the Islamic Studies program at Columbia University. His research focuses primarily on Islam in Bengal, particularly the Fairazi movement in the 19th century. He also works in Digital Humanities, and is involved with the Muslim Manuscript Project at Columbia. He is also interested in liberation theology in general and specifically connecting modern and pre-modern models of economics and justice. He plans to continue his research and pursue a PhD after obtaining his MA.