Berkley Center

Basit Koshul is associate professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, where he has taught since 2006. He previously taught for four years at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. His interests include the relationship between religion and modernity, philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, the sociology of culture, and the contemporary Islam-West encounter. He authored The Postmodern Significance of Max Weber’s Legacy (2005), as well as co-edited Scripture, Reason and the Contemporary Islam-West Encounter (2007) and Muhammad Iqbal: A Contemporary (2010). Koshul received his Ph.D. in 2003 from Drew University, specializing in the sociology of religion, and in 2010 earned a second Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.