Blain H. Auer

Blain Auer is a historian of Islam in South Asia and professor at the Université de Lausanne. He is the author of Symbols of Authority in Medieval Islam: History, Religion and Muslim Legitimacy in the Delhi Sultanate (I.B. Tauris, 2012) and The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India: In the Mirror of Kings (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and co-editor of Encountering Buddhism and Islam in Medieval Central and South Asia (De Gruyter, 2019). He serves as editor of the journal Études asiatiques and as series editor for Perspectives on Islamicate South Asia (Brill) and Worlds of Islam (De Gruyter). His research has also appeared in numerous scholarly articles, book chapters, and encyclopaedia entries.