Prof. S.Z.H Jafri is Professor & Head of the Department of History, University 
of Delhi.
Following works are to his credit:
Publications
A. Books (Published)
1. THE ISLAMIC PATH: SUFISM, POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN INDIA, Rainbow Publishers, Delhi, 2006. It was jointly edited with Dr. Helmut Reifeld I have contributed the Introduction for the book besides editing the selection of the papers presented at a Workshop on ‘The Political Role of Popular Islam’ (Sufism) organized by Konard Adenauer Foundation (Konard – Adenauer – Stiftung) at Gajner Palace, Bikaner in Oct. 2003.
The book has been reviewed in the following journals
(i) Indian Historical Review, Vol 34 (January 2007, New Delhi) (ii)Quarterly Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society, April-June 2008, LVI, No.2 Karachi, pp. 125-127 (iii) Indian Economic And Social History Review, Oct. 2008, New Delhi
2. MASNAD-E FAQR-O IRSHAD: TAREEKH KHANWADAE KARIMIA NAEEMIA SALON, Saqi Book Depot, Delhi – 2003.
Work adjudged as best one for the research and compilation (Tahqiq wa Tadwin) selected for the award by Urdu Academy, Delhi, (Government of N.C.T. of Delhi) in 2003 with a citation, plaque and cash award.
The book has been reviewed in the following Journals:
(i) Munadi, Vol 77, No. 12, pp. 14-5, December 2003, Delhi;
(ii) Khuda Baksh Library Journal, Vol 134, pp. 177-180, 2004, Patna.
3. STUDIES IN THE ANATOMY OF A TRANSFORMATION: AWADH FROM MUGHAL TO COLONIAL RULE, Delhi, 1998.
The book has been reviewed in the following Journals:
(i) Quarterly Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society, July-September, 1999, Vol. VLVII, No. 3, pp. 79-80; (ii) The Indian Historical Review, Vol. XXV, No. 2 (January, 1999), pp. 158-161; (iii) Sulabh India, Vol. I, August, 1999, p. 46; (iv) Qaumi Awaz, 18th April, 1999, (Sunday Supplement) pp. 2-4; (in Urdu) (v) Sahmat Muktanad, Vol. IV-VI, April-June 2001, pp. 85-87. (in Hindi) (vi) India Perspectives, Vol. 15, No. 2, February 2002, pp 24-26
B. Books (Under Publication)
1. AGRARIAN LIFE IN AWADH: THE STORY OF CHANGE UNDER PRE-COLONIAL REGIMES (1595-1856). The press copy of the manuscript will be ready by the end of next year.
2. Mystics, masters and masses: documentary history of the sufi khanqah of salon in awadh and its relations with rulers and local society c. 1650-1984. The press copy of the manuscript along with the facsimiles of the documents, the deciphered text and its translation will be ready soon.
B. Research Papers: Published
1. 'Sufi Tradition and Popular Literature: Chishti Ideology, the Awadhi dialect and local practices' in Surinder Singh and Ishwar Dayal (eds.) Popular Literature and Pre-Modern Societies in South Asia, Pearson/Longman; Delhi; 2008; pp.271-80.
2. 'Voices of the Vanquished: The Indigenous Literature in the Rebels World' in Kirti Narain and Mohini C Dias (eds.) 1857 Revisited : Myth and Reality', Himalaya Publishing House Mumbai; 2008; pp. 113-30.
3. 'Indigenous Discourse and Modern Historiography of 1857: The Case Study of Maulvi Ahmadullah Shah' in Sabyasachi Bhattacharya's (eds.), Rethinking 1857, Orient Longman, New Delhi (2007), pp. 237-260.
Reprinted in paper back edition (2008)
4. 'In'am Al-Tamgha Jagir in Awadh during the 17th - 18th Centuries: A Study of an Afghan Family' in A.K. Sinha and A.K. Singh (eds.) Udayana: New Horizons in History, Classics and Inter Cultural Studies (Essays in Honour of Professor Udai Prakash Arora), Anamika Publications, New Delhi (2007),
5 ‘Agrarian Society and Local Administration in Cooch Behar and Assam During 17th -18th Centuries’ in Fozail Ahmad Qadri’s (ed.) Society and Economy in North – East India – Vol. II, Regency Publications, New Delhi (2006), pp. 292-306.
6. ‘Madrasa and Khanaqah or Madrasa in Khanaqah? Education and Sufi establishments in Northern India,’ in Jan-Peter Hartung and Helmut Reifeld’s (ed.) Islamic Education, Diversity and National Identity: Dini Madaris in India Post 9/11, SAGE India Publications, New Delhi (2006), pp. 73-103.
7. ‘Religious Plurality in the Chishti Tradition: A Case Study of the khanqah at Salon in Awadh’ in Malik, Jamal and Helmut Reifeld (eds) Religious Pluralism in South Asia and Europe, Oxford University Press, New Delhi (2005), pp. 219-244 8.
8. ‘Bengal Army Sepoys and Agrarian instability in the kingdom of Awadh: A.D. 1801-56’, Proceedings of Indian History Congress (hereafter as PIHC), 65th Session, Bareilley, 2004, pp. 642-45.
9. ‘Land Control in Awadh: A Study of the Talluqadari Tenures upto c. 1850s, U P Historical Review, (New Series), Vol. 1, Gorakhpur, 2004 pp 80-93.
10. “The Position and Rights of the Zamindars in the Agrarian Society of Oudh (c. 1765-1856), in A K Sinha edited, Readings in Indian History being the Proceedings of U P History Congress (12th sesson held at M.J.P. Rohilkhand University, Barelly October 2002), 2003, pp. 238-246.
11. ‘Ahmadullah Shah of Awadh’ [under the series: Unsung Heroes of 1857]; India Perspectives, Vol. 15, No. 3, March 2002, pp. 20-23 [The Journal is published in ten languages from the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India].
12. “Profile of a Saintly Rebel – Maulavi Ahmadullah Shah”, in Social Scientist, Nos. 296-299 (Special Issue on ‘1857’), edited by Shireen Moosvi, 1998, Delhi, pp. 39-52.
13. “A Farman of Akbar (1558) from the Period of the Regency”, in Akbar and His India, edited by Irfan Habib, OUP, 1997, pp. 266-70.
14. “A Sufi Institution of Awadh” in Society and Ideology in India (Essays in Honour of Professor R.S. Sharma edited by D.N. Jha, Munshiram Manoharlal, Delhi, 1996, pp. 269-290.
15. “Madad-I ma’ash holders in Awadh and the Policies of the Nawab-Wazirs during the 18th Century: The Archival Evidence”, in an International Seminar on Persian as the Basic Source Language for the Study of History and Culture in the Indian Sub-continent, Hyderabad, 1996 (summary of the paper was published in the Souvenir, pp. 38-39).
16. “British Intervention and Agrarian Instability in the Kingdom of Awadh, 1801-56”, PIHC, 1993, pp. 545-552.
17. “Inheritance, Succession and the Customary Law in a Sufi Establishment of Awadh”, PIHC, 1992, pp. 321-327.
18. “Armed Zamindar: The Power Play in Awadh, 1595-1858”, PIHC, 1991, pp. 292-302.
19. “Tension and Conflict in the Agrarian Society of Awadh during the 17th Century – A Study of the Revenue Grantees”, PIHC 1990, pp. 354-361.
20. “The Grantees and the Pulls of Official and Local Interests – A Study of Mughal Period Documents from Awadh”, PIHC, 1989, pp. 346 (Summary).
21. “Land-Controlling Classes in Awadh – A Study of Changes in their Compositions, 1600-1900”, UP Historical Review, V, Allahabad, 1990, pp. 29-39.
22. “Rural Bureaucracy in Cooch Bihar and Assam under the Mughals-Archival Evidence”, PIHC, 1988, pp. 277-286.
23. “Mughal Relations with the Portuguese Administration in Goa, 1700-1701, Evidence of Persian Records in Lisbon Archives”, PIHC, 1987, pp. 302-311.
24. “Landed Properties of a Sufi Establishment: A Study of 17th-19th Century Documents from Salon in Awadh”, PIHC, I, 1986, pp. 417-431.
25. “The Sarkar Qanungo: 16th-18th Century Documents”, PIHC, I, 1985, pp. 417-431.
26. “Origin and Growth of Ta’alluqadari Tenures in Awadh”, PIHC, 1984, pp. 410-418.
27. “The Administration of the Jagirs in Awadh during the 17th Century”, UP Historical Review III, Allahabad, 1983, pp. 57-63.
28. “Two Madad-I Ma’ash Farmans of Aurangzeb from Awadh”, PIHC, 1979, pp. 302-313.
Under Publication:
1. Contributed a section on ‘Islam in India before A.D. 1206’ in A Comprehensive History of India in IV-B edited by Professors R.S. Sharma and K.M. Shrimali (forthcoming).
2. ‘Agrarian Society and Local Administration: Cooch Behar and Assam During 17th-18th Centuries’, presented in UGC Seminar on ‘Economy and Society of North East During the Medieval Period’, NEHU, Shillong, March 2003.
