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HDS 3175/RELIGION 1821: Indian Ocean Islam

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Instructor: Teren Sevea Does thinking oceanically influence the study of Islam? Can we remember a people’s history of the Indian Ocean world? This course considers these questions and others as it focuses on religious worlds within port cities and the...

Seminar: "Islam and Buddhism: Observations from an Emerging Field" by Anna Akasoy

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Anna Akasoy, Professor of Islamic Intellectual History, Graduate Center, CUNY Co-sponsors: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies RSVP here!

Seminar: "Being and Becoming Islamic: Traditions from the Islamic East" by Teren Sevea

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RSVP Here Teren Sevea, Alwaleed bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School

MUSIC 190R: Topics in World Music: Music in Islamic Contexts: South and Central Asia

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This course focuses on arts of sound associated with Islam in South Asia and Central Asia (including Iran). We explore how specific musical procedures and uses of sound cut across these Asian regions, and how ideologies, philosophies, and texts—associated...

Teren Sevea

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Teren Sevea is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia, and received his PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining HDS, he served as Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies at the...

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.

CULTBLF 60/HDS 3429: Religion in India: Texts and Traditions in a Complex Society

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Instructor: Diana Eck An exploration of the classical texts, spiritual teachings, epic narratives, and religious movements that have shaped a complex civilization for some three thousand years, from the Indus Valley to today. Readings in primary sources –...

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...

New Podcast! Ali Sethi: From Lahore With Love

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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.