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Muhamed Riyaz Chenganakkattil
Muhamed Riyaz Chenganakkattil is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is working on Hajj in Malabar, and narratives and the sacred. His research interests are Hajj narratives, literature of Hajj in Malabar, anthropology of Hajj performance, Mappila travels, narratives of rituals and sacred space. He is book review editor of Islamic Insights Journal of Islamic Studies (IIJIS) and he has extensively reviewed books for various international journals. His ‘Unnaturalness of Hajj narrative: We-narrative and narrating performative collective subjectivity’ has been published in Performing Islam (2017). He has published an essay, ‘Sufi authorship in Malabar: New dimensions of writing and composing poetry’ (Grin Verlag, 2016). His book chapter ‘Ritual pain in Sufi bodies: Absence of pain in violent religious rituals’ has been published by Al-Hikma Institute’ in an edited volume on Spirituality in the Contemporary World (Qom, Iran: 2018) by Dr Maddahi and his research articles on ‘Shamail as genre of life writing: Achronological narrative structure and unnatural biography’ in Bulletin of Oriental Studies (IFPO Press, 2019) and ‘Thin and invisible sacred spaces: Jinn Mosques and imagined sacredness in India’ in a volume on Conceptualizing Sacred Space/s in Journal Saeculum. Jahrbuch für Universalgeschiche are under the publication process.