Tayyaba Tahir

Dr. Tayyaba Batool Tahir is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam. Dr. Tahir is an anthropologist who 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.