Publications
Forthcoming January 2026 with McGill-Queen’s University Press. Pre-order here.
Praise for the book:
"A wholly original account of the making of a modernist public in colonial Punjab, one that foregrounds its surprising diversity as well as its inner contradictions to reveal a complex reality." Faisal Devji, University of Oxford
"A stellar achievement. Pruss's careful and groundbreaking work opens new perspectives to understand early-twentieth-century religious world-making and worldly reform of Islam in Lahore." Manan Ahmed Asif, Columbia University
Editorship
2020: Co-editor (as Maria-Magdalena Fuchs), Special Section “Religious Minorities in Pakistan”, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 43:1.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“The ‘Church of Islam’: Esotericism, Orientalism, and Religious Origin Myths in Colonial South Asia", Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 24:1 (2022).
(As Maria-Magdalena Fuchs) “Religious Minorities in Pakistan: Identities, Citizenship and Social Belonging”, Introduction to the special section on “Religious Minorities in Pakistan”, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 43:1 (2020), pp. 52-67. (With Simon Wolfgang Fuchs) (Most downloaded article ever published by the journal with ~72,000 engaged readers)
(As Maria-Magdalena Fuchs) “The Public Sphere in South Asia: A Review Essay”, Suedasien-Chronik, 6 (2016), pp. 319-336.
(As Maria-Magdalena Fuchs) “Walking a Tightrope: The Jesuit Robert Bütler and Muslim-Christian Dialogue in Pakistan”, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, 27:4 (2016), pp. 439-454.
Podcasts
“What is Islamic Modernism?” (with Noura Chalati), ZMO Kitchen talks, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, 30 April 2024
Chapters in Edited Volumes
“Barakat Ullah, 1891-1972”, in: David Thomas & John A. Chesworth (eds.), Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History, vol. 24: South Asia (1800-1914), Leiden: Brill (forthcoming spring 2026).
“The Anjuman-i Himayat-i Islam Lahore and Christian Missionaries, 1885-1925”, in: David Thomas & John A. Chesworth (eds.), Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History, vol. 24: South Asia (1800-1914), Leiden: Brill (forthcoming spring 2026).
Book Reviews
Megan Eaton Robb, “Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India”, Comparative Islamic Studies (forthcoming 2026)
Deanna Ferree Womack, “Protestants, Gender and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria”, American Journal of Islam and Society, 37:1-2 (2020), 144–148.
M. Raisur Rahman, “Locale, Everyday Islam and Modernity: Qasbah Towns and Muslim Life in Colonial India”, Studia Islamica, 115 (2020), 149-301.
Julia Stephens, “Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in Modern South Asia”, H-Soz-Kult, Online, 11th June 2019.
Ian Talbot & Tahir Kamran, “Colonial Lahore: A History of the City and Beyond”, Pakistan Journal of Historical Studies, 2:2 (2017), 116-120.
Margrit Pernau, “Ashraf into Middle Classes”, South Asian History and Culture, 6:2 (2015), 298-301.
