Tauseef Ahmad Parray

Dr Tauseef Ahmad Parray is presently working as Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Higher Education Department, Jammu and Kashmir (India). He earned his Master's degree in Islamic Studies from the University of Kashmir in 2008 and later completed his PhD in the same field from Aligarh Muslim University in 2014. He has authored eight books on various aspects of Islamic intellectual tradition; few of them include Mediating Islam & Modernity: Sir Sayyid, Iqbal, and Azad (2019), Recent Trends...See more

Dr Tauseef Ahmad Parray is presently working as Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Higher Education Department, Jammu and Kashmir (India). He earned his Master's degree in Islamic Studies from the University of Kashmir in 2008 and later completed his PhD in the same field from Aligarh Muslim University in 2014. He has authored eight books on various aspects of Islamic intellectual tradition; few of them include Mediating Islam & Modernity: Sir Sayyid, Iqbal, and Azad (2019), Recent Trends in Qur'anic Scholarship (2020), Decadence of Muslim Intellectualism (2021), Islamic Intellectual Tradition in the Indian Sub-Continent (co-edited, 2022) and Islam and Democracy in the 21st Century (2023). Additionally, he has also contributed articles in numerous reputed journals, and chapters/entries in edited books and encyclopedias. His major areas of specialization are Islam and Democracy, Modernist/ Reformist Thought in South Asia, Islamic Intellectual Tradition, and Recent Trends and English Scholarship in the Qur'anic Studies. See less