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Diana Eck's academic work has a dual focus—India and America—and in both cases she is interested in the challenges of religious pluralism in a multi-religious society. Her work on India includes the books Banaras: City of Light and Darsan: Seeing the...

Research Interests: History of sectarianism in Islam, Islamic social and political history, early Islam and late antique Near East, social network theory,  transnational connections in Arab and Persianate worlds, sectarian identity in the modern Middle...