Ayesha A. Irani is a scholar of Islam in South Asia, with a particular interest in the early modern Islamic Bangla literature of Bengal and Arakan. She is an Associate Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and was awarded a PhD with distinction from University of Pennsylvania (2011). Irani is author of “The Muhammad Avatāra: Salvation History, Translation, and the Making of Bengali Islam” published by Oxford University Press (2021).
