Fazal sheikh biography definition

African American photographer.

  • Sheikh offers us biography, insisting that history be understood as what happens to individuals.
  • Fazal Ali Qureshi, Islamic scholar and the leading Naqshbandi shaikh of colonial India in the early twentieth century.
  • A major figure in Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911) as a Twelver Shia Muslim scholar and politically connected mullah of the court of Iran's Shah.
  • - from the Arabic, meaning guide, a spiritual teacher, head of a religious Order, called Guru among the Hindus and Starets in the Russian Church.

    • Fazal Ali Qureshi, Islamic scholar and the leading Naqshbandi shaikh of colonial India in the early twentieth century..

    Fazal Sheikh

    Fazal Sheikh

    Born (1965-06-27) June 27, 1965 (age 59)

    New York City

    NationalityAmerican
    Alma materPrinceton University
    Occupation(s)Contemporary artist, photographer, bookmaker
    Known forMacArthur Fellows Program, Guggenheim Fellowship, Infinity Award
    Notable workThe Erasure Trilogy, Ether, Moksha, Ladli, The Victor Weeps, A Sense of Common Ground, A Camel for the Son
    Websitehttp://www.fazalsheikh.org

    Fazal Sheikh (born June 27, 1965 in New York City) is an artist who uses photographs to document people living in displaced and marginalized communities around the world.

    Life and career

    Fazal Sheikh is an artist who uses photographs to document people living in displaced and marginalized communities around the world. His principle medium is the portrait, although his work also encompasses personal narratives, found photographs, archival material, sound, and his own written texts.

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