Dr Tayyaba Batool Tahir

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Dr. Tahir is an anthropologist who has studied Islam in Pakistan and its interplay with culture, modernity and westernization as perceived by young educated Pakistani men. Dr. Tahir research interests are in the anthropology of Islam, South Asian modernity, Masculinity Studies and Gender Politics.

Dr. Tahir holds the position of an Assistant Professor of Anthropology (on research leave) in the Institute of Social and Cultural Studies, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan. She received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her doctoral research entitled, ‘Elite Pakistani Men of Today: Negotiating Islam, Modernization and Culture’, explores Islam as observed by students of LUMS. Prior to this, she graduated with distinction from the Department of English, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan.

Selected Publications

Rasheed, M., Tahir, T.B., Zulfiqar, Z. (2022). Socio-Cultural Determinants of Women Homelessness: A Study of Dar-ul-Aman, Multan. Journal of International Women’s Studies (JIWS), Vol. 24(5), Article 33.

Tahir, T. B., Nawaz, R., & Akbar, M. (2021). The Islamic Headscarf: A threat to Secularity, Modernity, and Integration. Global Regional Review, VI(II), 269-275.

Tahir, T. B., Channa, A. R., & Hussain, B. (2020). Devoted Cosmopolitans: Estranged Pakistanis: Dialectics of Class and Cosmopolitanism in an Elite Pakistani University. Ilkogretim Online, 19(3).

Tahir, T, Tahir, M. (2020), Religious Landscape Empowered by the Language of Revolution: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Ayatollah Khomeini Speeches. Pakistan Journal of Islamic Research (PJIR), 21(1).

Tahir, T. (2019), Modernity Misinterpreted in Pakistan, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan (PJRS), 56(2).

Tahir, T. B., Qureshi, S. F., & Safi, T. (2018). Superstitions as Behavioral Control in Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of social Sciences (PJSS), 38(2), 771-782.