Jonah Blank

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Jonah Blank is an American author, journalist and foreign policy expert, specializing in the culture, history and affairs of the Indian subcontinent.[1]

Writing career

Blank studied history at

Harvard (where he won the David L. Boren Fellowship, which provided funds for research outside the United States), and wrote his first book, Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God: Retracing the Ramayana through India
in the same period.

Blank has traveled extensively across India and Pakistan, and learned the ancient language of Sanskrit, as well as the languages Hindi, Gujarati and Urdu. He has also extensive knowledge and experience of the traditions and teachings of Hinduism, Islam and other religions in Asia.

Blank used the Boren Fellowship to work with the

Bombay
. He was the first anthropologist to work with this usually conservative community, publishing his work in Mullahs on the Mainframe. In Jonah Blank's important, myth-shattering book, the West gets its first look at the Daudi Bohras, a unique Muslim denomination who have found the core of their religious beliefs largely compatible with modern ideology. Combining orthodox Muslim prayer, dress, and practice with secular education, relative gender equality, and Internet use, this community serves as a surprising reminder that the central values of "modernity" are hardly limited to the west. [2][3]

Journalism and in government

Blank earned a

Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
.

He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He currently works as a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation.[4]

Bibliography

  • Arrow of the Blue-Skinned God: Retracing the Ramayana through India (1990)
  • Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity Among The Daudi Bohras (2002)

References

  1. Washington DC: Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings. 2011. p. 28. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on June 18, 2020. Retrieved June 18, 2020 – via brookings.edu.
  2. ^ Blank, Jonah (2001). Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity among the Daudi Bohras. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 416.
  3. S2CID 162495641. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help
    )
  4. ^ "Jonah Blank Bio" RAND Corporation, Accessed 25 October 2015.

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