Dr. Saadia Sumbal is Associate Professor of Modern South Asian Historyat the Forman Christian College (A CharteredUniversity)’s Department ofHistory, School of Social Sciences. She has an experience of 13 years inher respective field especially in Trajectories of Modern South AsianIslam. Her research interests include , social and cultural history ofreligion, identity, Sufism, Islamic Reformism in South Asia, Post-colonialPakistan, history, society, politics, religion and identity, social, political,religious and economic movements of marginalized/subaltern people forsocial change. Dr. Saadia Sumbal also has published book and researcharticles in national and international journals.

Research Interests: 

Social and Cultural History of Religion, Sufis, shrines, and mysticism, Islamic Reformism in Modern South Asia, Colonial and Post-Colonial Punjab,  Subaltern Studies,

Publications:

Book

• - Islam and Religious Change in Pakistan: Sufis and Ulema in 20th Century South Asia, (London: Routledge Taylor and Francis, 2021)

RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS

Sumbal,S. (2021). Islam and Religious Change in Pakistan: Sufis andUlema in 20th Century South Asia. London: Routledge Taylor andFrancis.
Sumbal,S. (2022). Review of Usha Sanyal, Scholars of Faith: SouthAsian Muslim Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge.
(New Delhi: Oxford University Press,2020) in South Asia Research,SAGE Journals, Volume 42, Issue 3, xiv+410 pp
https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280221115712
Sumbal, S.(2023). Parsi Legislation and Community Identity in ColonialPunjab. Journal of Punjab Studies, Volume 30, No.2.
Sumbal, S. (2022).Constructing the Religious Authority: CreatingExclusion along the Matrix of knowledge and power. South Asia: Journalof South Asia
Studies, Vol. 45, Issue 3.1479-0270,0085-6401
https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2021.1986272
Sumbal, S. (2021). Collaborating Elite of Kalabagh and Patterns ofControl in Colonial Punjab 1849-1939” South Asian History and Culture,Vol. 12, Issue 4.ISSN 1947-2501,1947-2498https://doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2021.1975372
Sumbal,S. (2021). Ahl al-Quran Movement in Colonial Punjab: Exclusionof Hadith Literature” Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (JSSH)ISSN: XXXXX (online) 1994-7046 (print) Volume 29, Number 1.
Sumbal,S. (2021). Colonial administrative control, collaboration andunderdevelopment in Colonial Punjab. Pakistan Journal of History andCulture ( PJHC ) Volume. 42, Number 1, January – June. ISSN 1012-7682, 2709-9008
Sumbal,S. (2021). Al-Mashriqi’s Khaksar Movement: Orthodoxy andContesting Religious Authority. Journal of Research Society of Pakistan,Vol. 58, No. 2. ISSN 0034-5431.
Sumbal,S. (2021). The Jamaat of Allah’s Friends: Maulana Allahyar’sReformist Movement and Sacralising the Space of the Armed Forces ofPakistan. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Cambridge UniversityPress (ISSN 1474-0591) Vol. 31, Issue1.https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186320000541
Sumbal,S. (2020). Transnational Sufi Order and Pakistani Diaspora inBritain. Journal of Research Society of Pakistan (ISSN-0034-5431)Vol.57, Issue 2.
Sumbal,S. (2019). Politics and Religion in Colonial Mianwali. The Journalof Pakistan Vision, (ISSN- 1681-5742), Vol. 20, No.2.
Sumbal,S. (2019). Colonial Economy and AgriculturalUnderdevelopment in Colonial Punjab” Journal of Historical Studies(ISSN 2414-8563) Vol. 5. No. 2.
Sumbal,S. (2018). Grounding Sectarianism: The end of syncretictraditions.
Journal of Research Society of Pakistan (ISSN-0034-5431) Volume No.55,
Issue No. 2.
Sumbal,S. (2016). The Migrant Sufis and Shrines : A microcosm of Islamin the tribal structure of Mianwali. International E-Journal of Advancesand Social Sciences (IJAOSS) e-ISSN (2411-183X) Vol.2, No.4.
Sumbal,S. (2010).Defending the Empire: Analyzing Military Recruitmentin Colonial Mianwali, The Historian (ISSN: 2074-5672) Vol .8, No.1.