Islamic Studies Today

Islamic Studies Faculty Today

2024

Today, Islamic studies at Harvard is represented across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Business School, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Harvard Medical School. It is also interdisciplinary and global in nature, with faculty, visiting scholars, students, and programs that increasingly represent the scope, diversity, and complexity of Muslim societies and communities around the world.

See our current faculty  ↓

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Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Feyaad Allie

Assistant Professor of Government

Feyaad Allie

Ali Asani

Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures

Ali Asani

Lorenzo Bondioli

Assistant Professor of History and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Lorenzo Bondioli

Nicholas Boylston

Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Nicholas Boylston

Rosie Bsheer

Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of History

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Steven Caton

Khalid Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulrahman Al Saud Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies

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Melani Cammett

Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs

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Luis Girón-Negrón

Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literatures

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Khaled El-Rouayheb

James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and of Islamic Intellectual History and Director of the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program

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Cemal Kafadar

Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies 

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Gülru Necipoğlu

Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art 

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Annette Damayanti Lienau

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

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Shady Nasser

Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations 

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Afsaneh Najmabadi

Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality

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David Roxburgh

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History 

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Richard Wolf

Professor of Music and South Asian Studies

Richard Wolf

Malika Zeghal

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life 

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Harvard Divinity School

Mohsen Goudarzi

Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies

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Ousmane Kane

 

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society and Professor of African and African American Studies 

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Teren Sevea

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies

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Harvard Kennedy School

Asim Khwaja

Sumitomo-Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development Professor of International Finance and Development

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Tarek Masoud

Sultan of Oman Professor of International Relations and Director of the Middle East Initiative

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Harvard Business School

Reshmaan Hussam

Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Hellman Faculty Fellow

Reshmaan Hussam

Harvard Law School

Intisar Rabb

Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law, Professor of History, and Director of the Program in Islamic Law

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Kristen Stilt

Professor of Law, Director of the Animal Law and Policy Program, and Director of the Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World 

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Harvard Graduate School of Design

Gareth Doherty

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture 

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Harvard Medical School

Salmaan Keshavjee

Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine and Director of the Center for Global Health Delivery – Dubai 

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