Ilgin Nas is a first-year doctoral student in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University. Her work explores the Islamic traditions of Pakistan and North India, particularly through literary and hagiographic works concerning Sufi saints. Her research interests include the nature of sainthood and the perception of Sufi saints in the construction of modern-day morality, Islamic devotional literatures of South Asia and particularly the qawwali genre, and inter-religious encounters in South Asia and the Mediterranean.

Ilgin graduated from Harvard College in 2019 with a B.A. in Romance Languages and Literatures (Italian Studies) and a secondary in Near Eastern Languages and Civilization. After serving as a Humanities Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection for the next academic year, she graduated from Harvard Divinity School in 2022 with a Master of Theological Studies degree in Islamic Studies.