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Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ashoka University
Mubashir Hameed is an Ashoka Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ashoka University. He recently completed his PhD at the University of Hyderabad, where his dissertation examined the ethical, legal, theological, and economic entanglements shaping the lives of small-scale Muslim merchants in North Malabar. Grounded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork, his research explores questions of wealth, piety, and economic striving in Islamic contexts.
His work brings anthropology into conversation with Islamic and religious studies by engaging Islamic jurisprudence and theology not simply as normative traditions but as analytical resources for ethnographic inquiry. His broader research interests include economic theologies, Islamic law and finance, charity, and moral economy.
As part of his postdoctoral research, he is currently working on two articles–“Visible Hands and Invisible Agents: Morphologies of Self in Islamic Giving” and “Disguise and Dust: Toward an Anthropology of Riba”– alongside a book project titled The Test of Wealth: Islam and Economic Life in Malabar, which develops his doctoral research.
Mubashir holds a BA (Honours) in Sociology from Hindu College and an MA in Sociology from the University of Hyderabad. He has presented his work at several national and international institutions, including Princeton University, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.
He curates hyderabadfood.in, a website documenting food spots across Hyderabad, and is often found experimenting in the kitchen, with a particular fondness for Hyderabadi biryani.
