Islamic Studies Today

Islamic Studies Faculty Today

2026

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.

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Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Feyaad Allie

Assistant Professor of Government

Feyaad Allie

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

Rosie Bsheer

Melani Cammett

Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs

Melanie Cammett

Luis Girón-Negrón

Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literatures

Luis Giron Negron

Khaled El-Rouayheb

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

Khaled El-Rouayheb

Cemal Kafadar

Vehbi Koç Professor of Turkish Studies 

Cemal Kafadar

Gülru Necipoğlu

Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art 

Gulru Necipoglu

Annette Damayanti Lienau

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

Annette Lienau

Shady Nasser

Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations 

Shady Nasser

David Roxburgh

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History 

David Roxburgh

Richard Wolf

Professor of Music and South Asian Studies

Richard Wolf

Malika Zeghal

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life 

Malika Zeghal

Harvard Divinity School

Mohsen Goudarzi

Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies

Mohsen Goudarzi

Teren Sevea

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies

Teren Sevea

Harvard Kennedy School

Asim Khwaja

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

Asim Khwaja

Tarek Masoud

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

Tarek Masoud

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

Intisar Rabb

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 

Kristen Stilt

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Gareth Doherty

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture 

Gareth Doherty

Harvard Medical School

Salmaan Keshavjee

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

Salmaan Keshavjee

Historic Events

  1. Home: History of Islamic Studies at Harvard
  2. Early Arabic Instruction
  3. Hancock Professorship Established
  4. Harvard Library Collects Islamic Titles
  5. Stephen Sewall Delivers Lectures
  6. Crawford H. Toy Joins Harvard Faculty and Teaches Arabic
  7. Crawford H. Toy First to Teach Islamic History
  8. Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East Founded
  9. George Foote Moore Teaches Islam in History of Religions
  10. James Richard Jewett Becomes First Professor of Arabic
  11. Harvard Collects Islamic Art
  12. William Thomson and Islamic Intellectual History
  13. James Richard Jewett Professorship of Arabic Established
  14. Richard Frye First Professor of Iranian Languages
  15. Center for Middle Eastern Studies Founded
  16. Sir Hamilton Gibb Bolsters Islamic Studies and Advocates an Interdisciplinary Approach
  17. Wilfred Cantwell Smith Teaches Global, Comparative Religious and Islamic Studies
  18. Annemarie Schimmel First to Teach Indo-Muslim Culture
  19. Muhsin Mahdi Teaches Arabic Philosophy
  20. Oleg Grabar First to Teach History of Islamic Art and Architecture
  21. Wheeler Thackston Brings Expertise in Persian Studies
  22. Abdelhamid Sabra First to Teach History of Arabic Science
  23. William Graham Advocates Islamic Studies across Faculties
  24. Wolfhart Heinrichs Brings Expertise in Arabic Studies
  25. Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and Professorship of Islamic Art Established
  26. Roy Mottahedeh Becomes First Professor of Islamic History
  27. Islamic Legal Studies Program Founded at Harvard Law School
  28. Gulru Necipoglu Named Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art
  29. Roger Owen Named A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History
  30. Cemal Kafadar Named Vehbi Koc Professor of Turkish Studies
  31. Middle East Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School Founded
  32. Leila Ahmed Becomes First Professor of Women's Studies in Religion
  33. Aga Khan Program at Harvard Graduate School of Design Founded
  34. Baber Johansen Teaches Islamic Law at Harvard Divinity School
  35. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program and Professorships Established
  36. David Roxburgh Named Alwaleed Professor of Islamic Art History
  37. Malika Zeghal Named Alwaleed Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life
  38. Ali Asani Named Director of Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program
  39. Steve Caton Named Khalid bin Abdullah Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies
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  40. Ousmane Kane Named Alwaleed Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society
  41. Khaled El-Rouayheb Named James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and Islamic Intellectual History
  42. Tarek Masound Named Director of Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program
  43. Program in Islamic Law Founded at Harvard Law School
  44. Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World Founded at Harvard Law School
  45. Teren Sevea Named Alwaleed Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies
  46. Islamic Studies at Harvard Today
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