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Asad Ali Ahmed's research and teaching interests include Secularism and Religion; Liberalism, Language and the Law; Colonial and Post-Colonial Studies; Ethnography of the State; and South Asia. He received his PhD in in Socio-Cultural Anthropology at the University of Chicago. His most recent publication, titled “The
 Paradoxes
 of
 Ahmadiyya 
Identity:
 The 
Legal
 Appropriation
 of
 Muslimness
 and
 the 
Construction
 of 
Ahmadiyya 
Difference,” appeared in Beyond 
Crisis:
 Reevaluating
 Pakistan in 2010.

South Asian Studies