P.K. YASSER ARAFATH

P.K. Yasser Arafath is a Fulbright-Nehru Research Scholar in the Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania (2023-2024). He teaches medieval and early modern history in the department of history at the University of Delhi. His research primarily focuses on Kerala, and his areas of interest include South Asian intellectual traditions, Arabi-Malayalam literature, the history of violence, Indian Ocean communities, and the cultural history of the body and hygiene. He is also interested in the history of science, technology, and gastro-politics. Routledge published his first book (co-edited with Haris Qadeer), titled Sultana’s Sisters: Genres, Gender, and Genealogy in South Asian Muslim Women’s Fiction (London and New York, 2021), while the second book, The Hijab: Islam, Women, and the Politics of Clothing, got published by Simon & Schuster (New Delhi and London) in 2022. In 2017, he was at the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, as the Dr. L.M. Singhvi Visiting Fellow. Currently, he is in the process of completing two book monographs.