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

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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...

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

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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

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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...

ISLAMCIV 241R: Approaches to Studying Indo-Muslim Culture and South Asian Islam

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

HDS 3939/ISLAMCIV 186/RELIGION 1816: Ismaili History and Thought

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Instructor: Ali Asani This course explores the doctrines and practices of the Ismailis, adherents of a minority branch of Shia Islam that recognizes the continuation of religious authority after the Prophet Muhammad through a particular line of his...

HDS 3628/CULTBLF 19 : Understanding Islam and Contemporary Muslim Societies

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Instructor: Ali Asani The course is an introduction to the fundamental concepts of Islam and the role that religious ideas and institutions play in Muslim communities around the world. Its main concern is to develop an understanding of the manner in which...

New Podcast! Ali Sethi: From Lahore With Love

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Pakistani musician and author Ali Sethi, AB ’06, returned to Harvard to talk to his longtime friend and mentor Ali Asani, Professor of Indo-Muslim Religion and Cultures, about sufi poetry, his own artistic journey and life as a perpetual student of the...

Ali Asani

Content tagged with Ali Asani

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

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

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

ISLAMCIV 241R: Approaches to Studying Indo-Muslim Culture and South Asian Islam

HDS 3939/ISLAMCIV 186/RELIGION 1816: Ismaili History and Thought

HDS 3628/CULTBLF 19 : Understanding Islam and Contemporary Muslim Societies

New Podcast! Ali Sethi: From Lahore With Love

New Podcast! Ali Sethi: From Lahore With Love

Approaches to Studying Indo-Muslim Culture and South Asian Islam

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