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title = "Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi, His Successors, and the Qurʾān",
author = "Zaman, {Muhammad Qasim}",
note = "Funding Information: The project was generously funded by the German Federal Foreign Office and the Robert Bosch Stiftung, and benefited from cooperation with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, as well as the doctoral programmes of the Heinrich B{\"o}ll Foundation and the Hanns-Seidel-Foundation. The project{\textquoteright}s Advisory Council was headed by Gudrun Kr{\"a}mer and assembled representatives of academia, donors, partner organisations, and the German Bundestag. Its other academic members were: Cilja Harders, Marianne Kneuer, Claus Offe, Rachid Ouaissa, and Ulrike Freitag. Gudrun{\textquoteright}s familiarity with policy-oriented research, her trans-disciplinary experience, and topical interventions in the public debate, combined with her academic excellence, were crucial in bringing to bear the wide-ranging knowledge and experience of the council. In doing so, she was able to draw on her insights from previous positions, such as being a senior research fellow at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (1982–1994), a member of the Advisory Council to the Bundeszentrale f{\"u}r politische Bildung (the Federal Agency for Civic Education, 2005–2013), and a member of the Advisory Council to the Ministry of Economic Cooperation (1996–2009), to name but a few of the positions in which she bridged academia and politics. For an overview of the project fellows and publications please refer to the project website at https://www.swp-berlin.org/en/projects/completed-projects-compl/arab-elites-and-social-mobilization-compl/introduction/ . Funding Information: Further background is needed to how we studied. McGill{\textquoteright}s Institute for Islamic Studies was founded by Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1916-2000), with support from the Rockefeller Foundation. Smith left McGill University for Harvard in the spring of 1964, and I joined McGill in the Fall of that year. The composition of the student body was almost unique to the Institute. When the Institute had sufficient funds, and it still did in the mid-1960s, the goal was to recruit 30 graduate students per year. Of these, 14 were Christian, 14 Muslim, plus—said some advanced students—one Jew and one social scientist. I think that I fell into the latter category. Of course, there was no explicit policy of which we students were aware, but the “balance” of admitted students held for the years I was at McGill. Funding Information: The research for this article was conducted between 2010 and 2014 within the larger research project In Search of Europe: Considering the Possible in the Middle East and Africa, based at what is now the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin and funded by the German Ministry for Education and Research ( BMBF ) (cf. Abdelkarim and Gr{\"a}f 2013a, 2013b). I would like to thank Schirin Amir-Moazami, Ruth Mas, and Elke Posselt for their valuable support and their comments and suggestions on an earlier version of this article. ",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1163/9789004386891_014",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia",
publisher = "Brill Academic Publishers",
pages = "280--297",
editor = "Bettina Gr{\"a}f and Birgit Krawietz and Schirin Amir-Moazami",
booktitle = "Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia",
address = "Netherlands",
}