The Valley of Kashmir

Formerly Professor and Head of the Department of History, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Dean Academic at Kashmir University, Mohammad Ishaq Khan is presently Director, Centre for Kashmir Studies at the same university. Awarded the Senior Leverhulme Research Fellowship by the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies in 1992, his several publications including Perspectives on Kashmir: Historical Dimensions (1983); Kashmir's Transition to Islam: The Role of Muslim Rishis (1994, 1997, 2002, 2005), and Experiencing Islam (1997) have been well received in academic circles throughout the globe. His already published three seminal research articles concerning Islam and Kashmir have been reprinted recently by Oxford University Press in its prestigious publication: India's Islamic Traditions, 711-1750 (Ed. Richard M. Eaton), Religious Movements in Northern India (ed. David Lorenzen) and India's Religions (ed. T.N. Madan). His monumental work: Dictionary of Sufism in South Asia is print.