Nariman Aavani is a PhD candidate in the Comparative Study of Religion at Harvard University, studying Islamic and South Asian philosophical traditions. He is particularly interested in the relationship between topics at the intersection of ethics and the study of self and subjectivity. Mr. Aavani is also working on a second research project on the historical development of ontology in post-Avicennan Islamic philosophy, theology and theoretical Sufism, with a focus on the development of the theory of the primacy of being.
Mr. Aavani received his Master of Theological Studies in Comparative Studies (Hinduism and Islam) from Harvard Divinity School in 2016. He also holds a Master’s in Islamic Studies from The George Washington University (2014) and completed his Bachelor’s in Philosophy at the University of Tehran (2011).