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Talal Asad

An influential scholar of religion, secularism, anthropology, and modernity.

1932-New YorkAnthropologist

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Talal Asad is presented as anthropologist associated with New York. The working chronology for this record is 1932-. An influential scholar of religion, secularism, anthropology, and modernity.

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