Muzaffar Alam, University of Chicago
Professor
Chicago, Illinois
alam@uchicago.edu
Office:
(773) 834-2809
Expert In
History of early modern northern India
History of Indo-Islamic culture
History of Indo-Persian travel accounts
History of late medieval northern India
History of the Islamic world from India
Indian Persian literature
Mughal history
Persian literature
Pre-colonial northern India
Urdu Persian literature
Bio/Research
Muzaffar Alam is a historian trained at Jamia Millia Islamia (New Delhi), Aligarh Muslim University and Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi), where he obtained his doctorate in history in 1977. Before joining the SALC at the University of Chicago in 2001, he taught for three decades at the Cen...
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Bio/Research
Muzaffar Alam is a historian trained at Jamia Millia Islamia (New Delhi), Aligarh Muslim University and Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi), where he obtained his doctorate in history in 1977. Before joining the SALC at the University of Chicago in 2001, he taught for three decades at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and has held visiting positions in the Collège de France (Paris), Leiden University, University of Wisconsin (Madison), and the EHESS (Paris). His working languages include Persian, Arabic, Hindi and Urdu. Professor Alam has taught courses on the history of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughal empire, and he has also worked closely with students on advanced Urdu and Persian literary and historical texts.
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