#  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 ↓](https://prod-aisptimeline.drupalsites.harvard.edu/our-faculty#faculty)



 

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##  Faculty of Arts and Sciences 

 



 ### Feyaad Allie

Assistant Professor of Government



 

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 ### Ali Asani

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



 

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 ### Lorenzo Bondioli

Assistant Professor of History and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations



 

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 ### Nicholas Boylston

Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations



 

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 ### 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



 

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 ### 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



 

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##  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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