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Munis Faruqui

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Munis D. Faruqui is a historian and the current Sarah Kailath Chair of India Studies at UC Berkeley. He specializes in the Muslim experience. His books include Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504-1719 (Cambridge, 2012), Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History (co-edited with Richard Eaton, David Gilmartin, and Sunil Kumar, Cambridge, 2013), and Religious Interactions in Mughal India (co-edited with Vasudha Dalmia, Oxford, 2014). He is currently completing a book focused on the Mughal Empire in the latter half of the seventeenth century.

In 2014, Dr. Faruqui was one of three recipients of UC Berkeley’s Distinguished Teaching Award, which recognizes teaching that “incites intellectual curiosity in students, engages them thoroughly in the enterprise of learning, and has a lifelong impact.”

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