Jahfar Shareef Pokkanali
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Jahfar Shareef Pokkanali
PhD Project
Title: "Sacred Spatialities in Transition: Mapping Muslim Architecture in the littorals of South India"
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Julia Hegewald
Work experience
- 2014-2016 Community archivist of vernacular Islamic texts and documentation of visual and material culture of mosques and Sufi shrines of South India.
Education
- 2013 M.Phil from Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
- 2010 M.A in Sociology, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
- 2008 B.A in Sociology, Farook College, University of Calicut, Kerala.
Conference Papers and Publications
Book Review:
- 'Hilal Ahmed, Muslim Political Discourse in Postcolonial India: Monuments, Memory, Contestation' in South Asia Research (Sage) July 2015 35: 257-259.
- 'Muslim sacred spatialities in Transition: The Mosques of Kerala' in an international conference on 'Religion and Social Diversity in South Asia' (October 12-14, 2015) at Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla.
- 'Jasad-ul-Muslim’ Sailing Across ‘Duniyavu’: Imagery, Pedagogy and ‘Ilm, a Painting from a Mosque in Malabar, Kerala' in ‘Ilm: Science, Religion, and Art in Islam', ( 20-23 July 2016) fifth international conference organised by CAMEA (Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture), at University of Adelaide, South Australia.
- “‘Jasad-ul-Muslim’; Sailing across ‘Duniyav’: A Ship Painting from an 18th-Century Mosque in Malabar, South India” in ‘Speech and Space: Discursive Environments across non-Arab Islam’, 7-9 September, 2017, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee (Updated version under review for publication).
- Between ‘Syncretic past’ and ‘Islamic present’: Vernacular Mosques and the Spatial Makeover of Islam in Contemporary Kerala, South India. International Journal of Islamic Architecture; Special Issue: Boundaries, Flows, and the Construction of Muslim Selves through Architecture Thematic volume planned for June 2019 (paper abstract accepted).
Language Proficiency
- Malayalam
- English (fluent)
- Arabic
- Tamil (intermediate)