
Dr. Basit Bilal Koshul
Dr. Basit Bilal Koshul is a Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He joined LUMS in 2006 after teaching at Concordia College (Moorehead, MN) for four years. He earned his first PhD in 2003 from Drew University in Religion and Society (specializing in the Sociology of Religion) and the second in 2011 from the University of Virginia in Religious Studies (specializing in Theology, Ethics, Culture and Scriptural Reasoning). His areas of research include the philosophy of science, sociology of culture, philosophy of religion, philosophical theology and the contemporary Islam-West encounter. He is especially interested in integrating the insights of Muhammad Iqbal, Charles Peirce, and Max Weber. He publications include two co-edited volumes on Iqbal (one published by Iqbal Academy, Pakistan and the other by Edinburgh University Press), The Postmodern Significance of Max Weber’s Legacy: Disenchanting Disenchantment (Palgrave), and Max Weber and Charles Peirce: At the Crossroads of Science, Philosophy, and Culture (Lexington Press). His most recent publication is a chapter in The Routledge International Handbook on Max Weber titled “Max Weber’s Work and Our Times: The Sociological Significance of Weber’s Methodological Insights.” His upcoming publication is American Pragmatism, Modern Islamic Thought, and the Contemporary University (Edinburgh University Press).