Daniela Bredi

Daniela Bredi (Fall 2011) is a Visiting Fellow from the University Sapienza of Rome (Italy), where she is Associate Professor of History of Islam in South Asia and Lecturer in Muslim Law in the Department of Oriental Studies, and where she also teaches Urdu language and literature. Her research focuses on questions of national integration, gender, and the relation of law and society. Recent publications include “Continuity and change in women‘s role in Indo-Muslim society seen through a few female members of the Tyabji family”, in Colonialism, Modernity and Religious Identities: Studies In South Asian Reform Movements (Oxford, 2008) and “The Destiny of Urdu in Independent India” in Redefining Urdu Politics in India (Oxford, 2006).