Kelly Pemberton

Home institution

University of California, Berkeley

Research project

Female Piety and Sainthood in South Asian Islam

Focusing on depictions of holy women in mystical Islam, this project addresses how articulations of gender identity today reflect shifting conceptions about community and religious identities in the subcontinent.

WSRP lecture

Reading Gender in Mystical Islam: Women, Piety, and Sainthood Contextualized

Course

HDS 3882: Gender, Piety, and Sainthood in Mystical Islam: Seminar (Spring 2003)