Irfan Ahmad is a political anthropologist and senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute, Göttingen. He is the author of Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace (2017) and editor of Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent: Reorienting Anthropology for the Future (2021). Earlier, he taught at Australian and Dutch universities. He tweets@IrfanHindustan