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- "Residents of Indian-controlled Kashmir may be looking nervously at Xinjiang -- as well as Tibet, where similar policies have been pursued by Beijing -- after Delhi scrapped the region's special status" t.co/MtvbGtLh1H
- 'Qurʾān Quotations Preserved on Papyrus Documents, 7th-10th Centuries' is the first book on the Qurʾān’s Sitz im Leben. Qurʾān Quotations also serves as an in-depth exploration of the radiocarbon dating of documents and Qurʾānic manuscripts t.co/i8RnGgytbp #Quran t.co/mSYQUxfbDK
- New book on proofs of God in Islamic philosophy now out, by my colleague Hannah Erlwein who has been a postdoc here at @LMU_Muenchen for the last couple of years: t.co/1TURQl0gnd
Promoting Scholarship
Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies
Bringing experts from an array of fields within Islamic studies to Harvard.
Faculty Research Grants
Supporting the cutting-edge research of Harvard’s early-career faculty in Islamic studies

Alwaleed Bin Talal Prize for Best Undergraduate Thesis in Islamic Studies
Recognizing Harvard College students who make original contributions to current scholarly discourse on Islam and Muslim societies, past and present.
Research Methods Workshop
A workshop series that allows Harvard students, faculty and visiting fellows to develop skills to enhance their Islamic studies research.






Professor Khaled El-Rouayheb, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and Islamic Intellectual History, Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Alwaleed Program Steering Committe Member, has come out with a new book,...
Professor Ahmed Ragab, Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion at Harvard Divinity School and Alwaleed Program Steering Committee Member, has released a new book entitled,... 






