Ali Asani

Courses

Approaches to Studying Indo-Muslim Culture and South Asian Islam

Instructor: Ali Asani A seminar for graduate students focusing on current scholarship on Islamic civilization in South Asia.

Muslim Devotional Literatures in South Asia: Qawwalis, Sufiana Kalam (Sufi Poetry) and the Ginans

Muslim Voices in Contemporary World Literatures

What do Muslims think of acts of terrorism committed in the name of Islam, the mixing of religion with politics, the rights of women, the ``West''? This seminar investigates the viewpoints of prominent Muslim writers on these and other ``hot button''...

Approaches to Studying Indo-Muslim Culture and South Asian Islam

A seminar for graduate students focusing on current scholarship on Islamic civilization in South Asia.

News

Ep. 6 | Giving Voice to Silenced Islams | Prof. Ali Asani

April 10, 2021

Professor Ali Asani tells the Alwaleed Program team about his scholarly trajectory, beginning with his experiences coming to Harvard College as an international student from Kenya and entering Islamic studies as an Ismaili student in the early 1970s. He...

Ep. 2 | Looking Back on Islamic Studies at Harvard | Roy Mottahedeh, William Graham, and Ali Asani

March 18, 2021

In this first episode in a four-part series, former Alwaleed Program directors, Professors Roy Mottahedeh, William Graham, and Ali Asani, share reflections on the development of Islamic studies over the course of their careers, first as students and then...

Eents

"Chinese-Speaking Muslims’ Responses to Islamic Intellectual Trends from West, South and Central Asia during the Nineteenth Century" by Tatsuya Nakanishi

January 26, 2022

4:00PM - 5:30PM EST

via Zoom

Virtual

Speaker: Tatsuya Nakanishi (Associate Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University; Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar, 2021-22) Chair/discussant: Ali Asani (Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and...