Aziza Shanazarova

Aziza Shanazarova specializes in the religious history of Islamic Central Asia and the Persianate world from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. Her research examines female religious authority through the 16th-century Sufi master Aghā-yi Buzurg (The Great Lady).

In Paris, Shanazarova will conduct archival research at the Bibliothèque nationale de France on previously unstudied waqf deeds established by women in Islamic Central Asia from the 16th to 20th centuries, aiming to illuminate women’s legal and financial agency in shaping public life.