Mosarrap Khan

Mosarrap Khan is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English, New York University. His research engages with Muslim everyday life in South Asia.

Behind the Dhaka attack: radical secularisation and Islamist terror in Bangladesh

Beyond talk of an ISIS-inspired attack, the Dhaka cafe massacre’s more immediate roots lie in a crisis of political legitimacy, and religion’s precarious position and instrumentalisation within the national imaginary.

By Mosarrap Khan

/ 12 Jul 2016