Tahir Kamran

Tahir Kamran is a historian, columnist, and public intellectual. Former Allama Iqbal Fellow at the Centre of South Asian Studies (CSAS) and Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge (2010–15), he currently heads the Department of Liberal Arts at Beaconhouse National University, Lahore. He has published extensively on sectarianism, religious fundamentalism, and the state of minorities in Pakistan. His most recent book is Colonial Lahore: History of the City and Beyond (2016), cowritten with Ian Talbot. Kamran is also the founding editor of the Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies.