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Mahdi Chowdhury

Mahdi Chowdhury is a researcher, writer, and artist based in Toronto. His academic interests include Muslim pilgrimage, the Indian Ocean world, and modern South Asia and the Middle East. He is an Editor-at-Large at the Toynbee Prize Foundation and a former studentship recipient at the University of Cambridge’s Centre of Islamic Studies.

ARTICLES BY Mahdi Chowdhury

  • Hajj as Metaphor

    Hajj as Metaphor

    The hajj—that is, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca—was a subject of deep personal resonance and ethical symbolism for Ali Shariʿati. Born in 1933 in provincial Khorasan, Shariʿati was one of Iran’s most influential twentieth-century intellectuals. The crux of his thought, Ervand Abrahamian argued,..