Sohaib Baig

Sohaib Baig is the Librarian for Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Islamic Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He completed his PhD in History at UCLA in 2020. His dissertation, entitled “Indian Hanafis in an Ocean of Hadith: Islamic Legal Authority between South Asia and the Arabian Peninsula, 16th-20th Centuries” won the 2020 Thomas E. Lifka Prize for the best history dissertation at UCLA. Sohaib also served as a Research Fellow at the Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School.