Contact Address
Dept of Theology and Religious Studies
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT

Qualifications and Educational History
BA (I) Theology & Religious Studies (Manchester, Brandon Memorial Prize)
MA Middle Eastern Studies - Islamic Studies (Manchester, British Academy Studentship)
PhD Social Anthropology (Manchester, ESRC Studentship)

Current Research Interests
Muslim identity politics in Britain, 1980s – 2000s
AHRC ‘Diasporas’ network on British-Asian Cities
Muslim pilgrimage & Pakistani diasporas in an age of globalisation

Publications (Books/Chapters/Journal Papers)
1. ‘The State, New Muslim Leaderships and Islam as a Resource for Engagement in Britain’, in Cesari, J. and McLoughlin, S., (eds) European Muslims and the Secular State, Abingdon, Ashgate, pp. 55-69, 2005.
2. ‘Writing a BrAsian City: ‘Race’, Culture and Religion in Accounts of Postcolonial Bradford’, in Ali, N., Kalra, V.S. and Sayyid, S. (eds) Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain, London: Hurst, pp110-140, 2006.
3. McLoughlin, S. and Khan, M. ‘Ambiguous traditions and modern transformations of Islam: the waxing and waning of an ‘intoxicated’ Sufi cult in Mirpur, ‘Azad’ Kashmir’, Contemporary South Asia, 15 (3), 2006.