Rumi Dahar
Key information
- Roles
- School of History, Religions and Philosophies PhD Research Student
- Qualifications
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LLB (Lancaster University)
MSc (Lancaster University) - Email address
- 665777@soas.ac.uk
- Thesis title
- Abuses of Power in Modern Transnational Yoga
- Internal Supervisors
- Dr Sian Hawthorne
Biography
Rumi is an AHRC-funded Ph.D. candidate in the School of History, Religions, and Philosophies at SOAS.
His collectively-produced research explores the spiritual & embodied, political and philosophical project of seeking. The communal nature and queer temporalities and orientations of the becoming journey are reflected in oral history interviews, in which Muslims of marginalised genders and sexualities wove together their life histories and relationships with Islam, Islamic feminism, and (inclusive) Muslim spaces.
They reveal the development of liberatory hermeneutics and spiritual-political praxis of queer, trans, and Islamic feminist bearings. Rumi has co-created an exhibition of artistic pieces inspired by oral history interviews to bring these stories and reflections to their wider LGBTQIA+ and feminist Muslim community and beyond.
They are currently a Holstein Doctoral Fellow in Queer and Trans Studies in Religion at the University of California, Riverside, as well as a trustee for the Oral History Society.
Research interests
- Islam;
- Islamic feminism
- Queer and Trans Studies
- Mysticism; Spirituality
- Oral History