Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy
Director, Heyman Center for the Humanities
719 Philosophy Hall
Phone: 212-854-1277
ab41@columbia.edu
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/philosophy/fac-bios/bilgrami/faculty.html

Professor Bilgrami earned a B.A. in English Literature from Bombay University (1970), a second B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University (1974), and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago (1983).
Akeel Bilgrami taught at Yale and chaired the Department of Philosophy at Columbia from 1995 to 1999. In 2004 he became Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities. Bilgrami has been on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Philosophy since 1988.

He is the author of Belief and Meaning (Basil Blackwell), 1992, (Paperback, 2nd and 3rd Printing 1994 and 1995); Self-Knowledge, Holism and Intentionality (Harvard University Press), 2006; and Politics, Islam, and the Moral Psychology of Identity (Harvard University Press) forthcoming.

Bilgrami has published widely in Politics and Modern Philosophy. Articles of special relevance to the Luce Project are "What is a Muslim? Fundamental Commitments and Cultural Identity" in Critical Inquiry (Spring 1992), "The Secular Ideal: Reason, History and the Archimedean Ideal" in Economic and Political Weekly (July 1994), reprinted in S. Kaviraj (ed.) Essays in Political Sociology (Oxford University Press), “Two Concepts of Secularism" in Yale Journal of Criticism (Spring 1993), “Nationalism, Secularism and Modernity” in a Symposium with Ashis Nandy , Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, volume 37. (1994), “Minority Rights in Plural Societies,” Lead Paper in A. Mukarram (ed.) Minorities in India: Proceedings of the Conference on Minorities (Rajeev Gandhi Foundation), 1997, “Muslim Personal Law and Cultural Identity” in Economic and Political Weekly, October, 1997, Reprinted in A. Bagchi (ed.) Governance in Multicultural Societies (Oxford University Press), “Identity, Relativism and the State” in Catherine Montefiore (ed.) Essays on Identity, Cambridge University Press (Forthcoming), “Political Pluralism and the Modern State” in U. Goswami (ed.) Making a Difference, (Oxford University Press), forthcoming.

Component: Tolerance, Conflict, and Religious Difference: Historical and Contemporary Issues