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Michel Boivin 65 allée du Clos Saint-Vincent 73190 Challes les eaux - FRANCE [email protected] - 00 33 (0)’ 79 72 63 21

1. Education Qualifications ♦M.A. in History, University of Lyon 2. ♦diploma in Modern (Lyon 2) and in and civilizations (Lyon 3). ♦DEA in Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Lyon 2. ♦Ph.D. in Oriental Languages, Civilisations and Societies, University of Sorbonne, Paris.

2. Current position Research fellow in Centre of Indian and Asian Studies (CEIAS), CNRS/EHESS, Paris Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, and the , University of ()

3. Professional liabilities - Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Pakistan Historical Society () - Member of the Editorial Board of the Sindhological Studies (, /Hyderabad) - Member of the board of The Association for the Study of Ginans (London) - Co-head of the Study Group « Etudes Gujarati et sindhi : sociétés, langues et cultures », EFEO, Paris - Head of the CEIAS research group « Histoire et soufisme dans la vallée de l’Indus », EHESS-CNRS - Head of the Mission Interdisciplinaire Française du Sindh (MIFS = French Interdisciplinary Mission of Sindh) - Co-editor of the MIFS ENewsletter (French/English)

5. Recent Publications Books La rénovation du shî`isme ismaélien en Inde et au Pakistan – d’après les écrits et les discours de Sultân Muhammad Shâh Aghâ Khân (1902-1954), RoutledgeCurzon, Londres, 2003. (Dir.), Les Ismaéliens d’Asie du sud: gestion des héritages et production identitaire, préface de Denis Matringe, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2007. [Ed.) Sindh Through History and Representations: French Contributions to Sindhi Studies, Karachi, Oxford University Press, 2008. Articles « Le sama` dans la région du Sindh», in Zaïm Khenchelaoui, Des voies et des voix. Soufisme, culture, musique, Actes de la deuxième édition du colloque international 2

de Tlemcen du 12 au 16 novembre coordonnés et présentés par, 2006, Alger, CNRPAH, pp. 293-333. « Devotion and Iconography: The Figures of Popular Piety in the Indus Valley », Nuqta Art (Karachi), 2006, Vol. 1, n°3, pp. 46-52. "Representations and Symbols: Shia worlds and Identity Shifting from Bombay to Karachi" in A. Monsutti, S. Naef and F. Sabahi (Dir.), The Other Shiites: From the Mediterranean to Central Asia, Berne, Frankfurt and New York, Peter Lang Publishers, 2007, pp. 149-172. “Shivaïte Cults and Sufi Centres: A Reappraisal of the Devotional Medieval Legacy in Sindh”, in M. Boivin (ed.), Sindh Through History and Representations: the French Touch, Karachi, Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 34-68.