Dr. Mohammad Nabeel Jafri

Mohammad Nabeel Jafri holds a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada) Postdoctoral Fellowship at CeMIS. He is a scholar of Islam in modern South Asia, with a particular focus on Twelver Shiʿi practice in Pakistan. His doctoral dissertation, "Orating Knowledge: Urdu Shiʿi Khiṭābat in Contemporary Karachi," was defended in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto, in July 2024.

His doctoral research was funded by a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2019-2022), multiple Ontario Graduate Scholarships (2018, 2022, 2023), and an inaugural Al-Mahdi Doctoral Fellowship (2023). His recent publications include "Orating Origins" in Critical Pakistan Studies (2024), "Husain's University" in Asian Ethnology (forthcoming), and "The Somatic and the Sonic in Contemporary Urdu Shiʿi Khiṭābat" in the edited volume Practices of Islamic Preaching (2023). He is broadly interested in scholarship on semiotics, ritual practice, authority, and language-use