Satnam Singh (author)
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| Nationality | Danish |
| Occupation | Scholar |
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| Alma mater | Copenhagen University (MA) Copenhagen Business School (BA) |
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| Discipline | Sikh studies |
| Sub-discipline | Sikh intellectual history; Political and intellectual thought in pre-colonial South Asia |
| Institutions | National Centre for Prevention of Extremism (Denmark) |
| Main interests | Sikh intellectual history; Mughal India; Religious political thought |
Satnam Singh (sʌtnəm sɪŋ) is a Danish scholar of Sikh intellectual history. Singh's research focuses on the evolution of political and intellectual thought in the pre-colonial period. Singh’s recent published work has received praise from leading scholars in the field of Sikh studies.[1]
Education and Career
Satnam Singh received his MA in Cross-Cultural Studies from Copenhagen University in 2013 and a BA in Marketing and Business Communication from Copenhagen Business School in 2010. Singh’s primary research topics at the universities included the development of Sharia courts in the UK, the development of Muslim identity and activism in Denmark, social media marketing strategies of radical jihadi organizations, the evolution of Sikh and Sufi literature in Mughal India etc.
From 2009-2020, Singh was involved in several Danish programs of counter-violent-extremism and contributed to the prevention of recruitment to Islamist radical groups such as Kaldet til Islam, Al Qaeda, Al Shabab, ISIS etc. His former employment offices include The National Centre for Prevention of Extremism, The City of Copenhagen, and the Danish Ministry of Education.[2] [3]
Since 2020, Singh has been employed as a senior consultant to Danish authorities in the prevention of honor-related violence against women, his current office being located at the National Centre Countering Honor-based Violence. Singh has moreover worked as a night guard at a safehouse that houses women who have fled their home due to honor-based violence.[4]
Publications
Satnam Singh is primarily known for his 2024 monograph, The Road to Empire: The Political Education of Khalsa Sikhs in the Late 1600s, published by the University of California Press. The book examines the Sikh leader Guru Gobind Singh as an intellectual figure who politicized his followers with the aim of establishing independent Sikh polities in the Indo-Islamic world. Satnam Singh presents the Guru as a political engineer and institution-builder who recruited more than one hundred Sanskrit- and Persian-literate scholars to aid Sikhs in the study of classical world literature, especially works pertaining to statecraft and political sovereignty.[5]
The Road to Empire has received praise from leading scholars in the field of Sikh Studies, such as Louis Fenech, Pashaura Singh, and Robin Rinehart. In connection with the publication of the book, Fenech remarked that Singh's monograph is one of the only English-language books to deal with the subject, noting that it is "an excellent contribution to the field" of Sikh studies. [1]
Rinehart has categorised the work as an "innovative study" that brings "to light the complex relationships among the Sikh, Indic, and Islamic literatures that helped shape Sikh conceptions of sovereignty and political theory." [1] Finally, Pashaura Singh has noted that the monograph "is an exciting new work, highly relevant in the field of modern Sikh studies and a must-read for both scholars and laypeople." [1]
Other Publications
Satnam Singh has been engaged in Sikh studies for more than a decade. His earlier publications, which appear as chapters in anthologies published by Brill, Routledge, and others, include research on Sikh warrior traditions[6] [7] and youth engagement online. [8] Singh has also informed the Danish public about Sikh philosophy and literature through more than twenty articles published by the Danish media outlet Religion.dk, managed by Kristeligt Dagblad. [9] [10]
Current Research
Satnam Singh's current research is focused on Sikh intellectual traditions in the 1700s by examining the early formations of intellectual environments and schools-of-thought among Sikhs, with a special focus on how Sikhs engaged Sufi and Indic ideas. [11][4]
Singh shared key aspects of this research, including insights into the Sarkutavali, at the Sikh Studies Conference at the University of California, Riverside, in May 2025. [12] Singh is planning to publish his upcoming book in 2027.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "The Road to Empire by Satnam Singh - Hardcover". University of California Press. Retrieved 2025-07-13.
- ↑ "Børne- og Undervisningsministeriet". Retrieved 2025-07-29.
- ↑ "Dansk Magisterforening". Retrieved 2025-07-29.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Satnam Singh". www.satnam-singh.com (in dansk). 2025-07-01. Retrieved 2025-07-13.
- ↑ Singh, Satnam (15 October 2024). The Road to Empire: The Political Education of Khalsa Sikhs in the Late 1600s. Oakland: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520399372.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ↑ Singh, Satnam (27 August 2014). Worshipping the sword: The practice of śāstar pūjā in the Sikh warrior tradition (in Objects of Worship in South Asian Religions). London: Routledge. pp. 182–200. ISBN 9781315771625.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ↑ Singh, Satnam (20 July 2017). "Nihangs [Sikh Warriors] - British Perspective". Brill's Encyclopedia of Sikhism. 1: 346–351.
- ↑ Singh, Satnam (8 November 2012). Attending the Cyber Sangat: The Use of Online Discussion Boards among European Sikhs (in Sikhs Across Borders). London: Bloomsbury (published 2012). pp. 119–141. ISBN 9781441113870.
- ↑ "Guru Nanak er Sikhismens Stifter". Retrieved 2025-07-29.
- ↑ "Religion og politik er som to vinger på én fugl". June 2015. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
- ↑ Sikh Heritage Museum (2025-05-06). Early Sikh Intellectual Authority: A Case Study of Bhai Mani Singh - by Satnam Singh @ SHMC.CA. Retrieved 2025-08-05 – via YouTube.
- ↑ "Conference Program" (PDF). UC Riverside - Department for the Study of Religion. Retrieved 2025-07-29.
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