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About Justin Smolin
I am a PhD candidate in the History of Religions at the Divinity School in the University of Chicago, specializing in premodern Islamic approaches to religious difference. My fields of interest and expertise include the history of interfaith interaction, translation as a mode of inquiry and exchange, and political theology. My dissertation, “The Mirror of Realities: The Translation of Religious Difference in Early Modern South Asia,” examines sixteenth to eighteenth century CE translations of Sanskrit works into Persian as a framework for exploring the perception of religious difference in premodern South Asia.Justin N. Smolin is a PhD candidate in the History of Religions specializing in at the Divinity School in the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the question of the translatability of religious difference, with a particular view to the early modern Islamicate world: his broader interests include literary history, translation, and political theology.
NBN Episodes hosted by Justin:
April 24, 2023
Sacred Kingship in World History
A. Azfar Moin and Alan Strathern
Hosted by
Justin Smolin
Sacred kingship has been the core political form, in small-scale societies and in vast empires, for much of world history. Sacred Kingship in World Hi…