. . . . "Talal Asad"@en . . "1933Z"^^ . "Asad, Talal"@en . "Aanthropologist at the CUNY Graduate Center" . . "Talal Asad (born 1932) is an anthropologist at the CUNY Graduate Center.Asad has made important theoretical contributions to post-colonialism, Christianity, Islam, and ritual studies and has recently called for, and initiated, an anthropology of secularism."@en . . .