Aly Kassam-Remtulla (also known as Aly Remtulla) is a U.S.-based academic, writer and scholar who is Associate Provost for International Affairs and Operations at Princeton University.^[1][2] Previously, he was associated with the MacArthur Foundation.^[3]

Career

Kassam-Remtulla was born in Kenya and grew up in Canada.  He received his undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences, Asian American Studies and Anthropology from Stanford University.^[4] He then studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College,^[5] where he received a master's degree, MBA, and doctorate from Oxford University.^[6]

Kassam-Remtulla's academic research and teaching concerns immigrant Muslim communities and has been widely cited by scholars of Ismailism, Islam, and those with interests in African Studies.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12]} He is a published poet and his writing has appeared in journalism at WIRED, Al Jazeera, and Stanford Magazine.^{[13][14][15][16][17][18][19]}

He is presently working as Associate Provost for International Affairs and Operations at Princeton University.^[7] Earlier, he worked on advancing diversity for graduate students and faculty members at Princeton and efforts to support Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.^{[20][21][22][23]} He co-founded the Faculty Advancement Network, a national consortium to promote diversity and inclusion in the professoriate community.^[24] Kassam-Remtulla has served on numerous non-profit boards and is the chair of the board of trustees at the Mpala Research Centre in Kenya.^[25][26]

He has been awarded the Duke of Edinburgh's Gold Award, the Robert M. Golden Medal for Excellence in Humanities and Creative Arts^[27] and the Alberta Centennial Medal.^[28] He also received the Annetta Dieckmann Award from the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois where he founded the Young Advocates Program.^[3][29]

Publications

• (Dis)Placing Khojas: Forging identities, revitalizing Islam and crafting global Ismailism ^[30][31][32]
• Kassam-Remtulla, Aly. Muslim Chaplaincy on Campus: Case Studies of Two American Universities. The United Kingdom, University of Oxford, 2012.^[9]
• Encounters: People of Asian Descent in the Americas, ISBN 978-0-8476-9144-9 ^[33]
• Contours Of The Heart (Asian American Writers Worksh), 1998, ISBN 978-1889876009 ^[34]

Footnotes

• A Modern History of the Ismailis, Edited by Farhad Daftary, I.B.Tauris Publishers, London 2011.^[35]
• Miraly, Mohammad N.. Faith and World: Contemporary Ismaili Social and Political Thought. United States, iUniverse, 2016.
• Chakraborty, Tapas, and Pal, Adesh. Theorizing and Critiquing Indian Diaspora. India, Creative Books, 2004.
• Stanford. United States, Stanford Alumni Association, 2005.
• Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History. United States, Facts On File, Incorporated, 2010.
• The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective. United Kingdom, Berghahn Books, 2016.^[36]
• Geo-economics and Geo-securities in the Indian Ocean Region. N.p., Taylor & Francis, 2018.^[37]
• Magout, Mohammad. A Reflexive Islamic Modernity: Academic Knowledge and Religious Subjectivity in the Global Ismaili Community. Germany, Ergon Verlag, 2020.^[38]
• Transnational and Cosmopolitan Forms of Islam in the West, by Karen Leonard ^[39]
• Canada and the Ismaili Imamat: Transnational Muslim Diplomacy and Multicultural Nationalism by Kais Khimji.^[40]
• Bolander, B. (2016). English and the transnational Ismaili Muslim community: Identity, the Aga Khan, and infrastructure. Language in Society, 45(4), 583–604. doi:10.1017/S0047404516000439
• From Satpanthi to Ismaili Muslim: The Articulation of Ismaili Khoja Identity in South Asia.^[41]
• Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History. The United States, Facts On File, Incorporated, 2010.
• Carter, Marina, and Torabully, Khal. Coolitude: An Anthology of the Indian Labour Diaspora. The United Kingdom, Anthem Press, 2002.
• Hirji, Karim F.. Growing Up with Tanzania: Memories, Musings, and Maths. Tanzania, Mkuki Na Nyota Publishers, 2014.

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