Safwan Amir

Safwan Amir is is an assistant professor at the School of Arts and Sciences, Ahmedabad University. He was a Senior Research Associate with the World Humanities Report–India/South Asia between 2019 and 2022, and a Fulbright visiting doctoral fellow at Columbia University between 2017 and 2018. His research interests include anthropology of religion, Islam, and ethical possibilities of the margin. He is currently working on a book manuscript that draws on his PhD dissertation “The Muslim Barbers of Malabar: Histories of Contempt and Ethics of Possibility.”