Mahmood Mamdani

His recorded language was English. His recorded confession was Shia Islam.

He married Mira Nair. One child is recorded: Zohran Mamdani.

Mahmood Mamdani studied at University of Pittsburgh, Harvard University and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. The record notes the qualification Doctor of Philosophy.

Mahmood Mamdani worked in African studies, political science and anthropology.

He was employed by Columbia University, University of Cape Town, University of Dar es Salaam and Makerere University.

35 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1972 to 2018.

Neither Settler nor Native. Getting the question right. Citizen and Subject. Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism. Slow Poison. When victims become killers, dated 2001. From citizen to refugee: Uganda Asians come to Britain, dated 1973. The myth of population control, dated 1972. Citizen and subject, dated 1996. Good Muslim, bad Muslim. Define and Rule. Social movements and constitutionalism in the African context. Saviours and Survivors. Neither Settler nor Native - the Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities. Guter Moslem, boser Moslem. When does a settler become a native? La CIA et la fabrique du terrorisme islamiste (French Edition). Politics and Class Formation in Uganda. World and Africa and Color and Democracy (the Oxford W. E. B. du Bois). Imperialism and fascism in Uganda. The intelligentsia, the state and social movements. Contemporary political terror. Contradictions of the IMF programme and perspective in Uganda. Social movements, social transformation, and the struggle for democracy in Africa. Conferences speciales de la 10e Assemblee generale du CODESRIA, Kampala, 2002. The East African Federation. A panel discussion. The contemporary Ugandan discourse on customary tenure. The land question. Saviors and Survivors. Commentaries on Professor Sylvia Tamale's inaugural lecture, "nudity, protest and the law in Uganda," School of Law, Makerere University. Karamoja. Congo and Sudan. Beyond rights talk and culture talk. Uganda. Citizen and Subject : Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late Colonialism / Mahmood Mamdani, Mahmood Mamdani, Mahmood Mamdani., dated 2018, held by Wellcome Collection.

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

13 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Mamdani, Mahmood, African American Studies Center, 2011. Mamdani, Mahmood, SpringerReference. The making and breaking of Uganda: an interview with scholar Mahmood Mamdani, 2026. TARB book review: Mahmood Mamdani, Define and Rule: Native as Political Identity, Tokyo Academic Review of Books, 2023. Génèse et déclin d'un État : le chercheur Mahmood Mamdani décrypte l'histoire politique de l'Ouganda, 2026. Mahmood Mamdani, Neither Settler nor Native. The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press (Cambridge) 2020, Historische Zeitschrift, 2025. ESPECTROS DE MAMDANI: desafios de uma sociologia da vida política rural na África do Sul contemporânea, Estudos de Sociologia, 2014. The Politics of Knowledge Production and Decolonisation: An Appraisal of Mahmood Mamdani’s Contributions, The Thinker, 2024. Culture Talk, American Journal of Islam and Society, 2005. Unarchived women: testimony, violence and female condition in Our lady of the Nile, from Scholastique Mukasonga, Travessias, 2018. Mahmood Mamdani. Scholars in the Market Place: The Dilemmas of Neo-Liberal Reform at Makerere University, 1989–2005, Suomen Antropologi, 2009. “Girl, You Are a New Species of Krazy”, Communicare, 2022. A VIOLÊNCIA POLÍTICA ENTRE TUTSIS E HUTUS NO GENOCÍDIO RUANDÊS DE 1994: a análise de Mahmood Mamdani, Projeto História, 2011.

6 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

Good Muslim, bad Muslim (2004) — Internet Archive. Afghanistan The High Point Of The Cold War (2005) — Internet Archive. The Myth of Population Control Family, Caste , and Class in an Indian Village (1972) — Internet Archive. Guter Moslem, boser Moslem (2006) — Internet Archive. Southern African Political & Economic Monthly, Incorporating Southern African Economist: Vol. 11 No. 13 (1998) — Internet Archive. The Debate (1982) — Internet Archive.

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 23 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

This article draws on 5 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 5 means 5 genuinely separate publishers of record. 14 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Mahmood Mamdani studied at University of Pittsburgh, Harvard University and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. the recorded working language is English.

The field of work recorded is African studies, political science and anthropology.

Employment is recorded with Columbia University, University of Cape Town and University of Dar es Salaam.

Distinctions recorded are ASA Best Book Prize and Fellow of the British Academy.