# Salman Keshavjee ## expand\_more #### Courses [### MUSIC 190R: Topics in World Music: Music in Islamic Contexts: South and Central Asia ](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-118783/2021/fall/20993) 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... [### DPI 397: Islam in the American Public Sphere: A Case Study for Strategic Diversity Leadership ](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/71762) Instructor: Khalil Abdur-Rashid This course will examine Islam and the American Muslim community as a case study which reveals the challenges and perspectives emerging from the encounter of a global faith community in America with the intersection of race... [### HIST 2014: Historiography of the Modern Middle East: Proseminar ](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/53212) Instructor: Rosie Bsheer This graduate seminar aims to familiarize students with some of the major debates in the field of modern Middle East history and pays careful attention to competing theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches. It will... [### DPI 440: Middle Eastern Politics and Policy ](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/hks-170188/2019/spring/19426) Instructor: Tarek Masoud Explores the major political, economic, social, and security challenges facing - and emanating from - the Middle East. Particular attention paid to the causes of the so-called Arab Spring and the prospects for genuine... [### ISLAMCIV 170/HDS 3368: Islam, Modernity and Politics ](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-109243/2018/spring/21267) Instructor: Ousmane Kane The aim of this seminar is to study the evolution of Islamic thought and political practices in Muslim societies from the 19th to the early 21st centuries.Attention will be devoted to the patterns of interaction between the Muslim... [### RELIGION 2810/ISLAMCIV 218: Islamic Institutions - Middle East and Beyond: Modern Transformations and Debates (19th-21st centuries) ](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-208008/2018/spring/19886) Instructor: Malika Zeghal This graduate seminar explores the transformation of Islamic institutions in the modern period, such as religious endowments (Awqaf), sharia courts, and Islamic education. We will engage with the historiography of these... [### HDS 3357/Islamic Civilization 179: Critical Perspectives on the Dynamics and Development of Islam in Africa ](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/hds-205484/2019/spring/20853) Instructor: Ousmane Kane An estimated 450 to 500 million Muslims live in Africa—close to a third of the global Muslim population. The overwhelming majority of them lives in the northern half of the continent, above the equator. The spread of Islam... [### Middle Eastern Politics and Policy ](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/courses/middle-eastern-politics-and-policy) DPI-440 This course explores the major political, economic, social, and security challenges facing - and emanating from - the Middle East. Particular attention paid to the causes of the so-called Arab Spring and the prospects for genuine democratization... [### Getting and Keeping Democracy ](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/courses/getting-and-keeping-democracy) DPI-407 This is a course about how democracy comes into being and how it breaks down, and about what citizens, activists, and policymakers around the world can do to make the former more likely and the latter less so. Around the world, there is an... [### Political Institutions and Public Policy ](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/courses/political-institutions-and-public-policy) DPI-101 This is a course about fundamental problems of participation, democratic governance, and conflict in contemporary political systems. It will provide students with an analytical toolkit for understanding and acting on the political dimensions of... [### Architecture in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: A Cross-Cultural Perspective ](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/51606) Instructor: Gulru Necipoglu-Kafadar Architecture of the eastern Mediterranean basin (at Italian, Ottoman, and Mamluk courts) with emphasis on cross-cultural encounters and transmission of the Romano-Byzantine heritage, science and technology... [### Reading al-Manar in the Interwar Period ](https://courses.harvard.edu/detail?q=id:d_colgsas_2018_1_160403_001&returnUrl=search%3Ffq_coordinated_semester_yr%3Dcoordinated_semester_yr%253A%2522Sep%2520to%2520Dec%25202018%2520%2528Fall%2520Term%2529%2522%26q%3Dzeghal%26sort%3Dcourse_title%2520asc%26start%3D0%26rows%3D25) [### What is Good in Islam? Ethics in the Islamic Tradition ](https://courses.harvard.edu/detail?q=id:d_colgsas_2018_1_208066_001&returnUrl=search%3Ffq_coordinated_semester_yr%3Dcoordinated_semester_yr%253A%2522Sep%2Bto%2BDec%2B2018%2B%2528Fall%2BTerm%2529%2522%26q%3DIslam%26sort%3Dcourse_title%2520asc%26start%3D50%26rows%3D25) [### Upper-Level Classical Arabic I ](https://courses.harvard.edu/detail?q=id:d_colgsas_2018_1_114034_001&returnUrl=search%3Ffq_coordinated_semester_yr%3Dcoordinated_semester_yr%253A%2522Sep%2Bto%2BDec%2B2018%2B%2528Fall%2BTerm%2529%2522%26q%3DIslam%26sort%3Dcourse_title%2520asc%26start%3D0%26rows%3D25) [### The World's Religions in Multicultural America: Case Studies in Religious Pluralism ](https://courses.harvard.edu/detail?q=id:d_hds_2017_1_129512_01&returnUrl=search%3Fq%3DHDS%25203847%26sort%3Dcourse_title%2520asc%26start%3D0%26rows%3D25) [### The Volatile Veil: Gender, Sexuality, and Islam ](https://courses.harvard.edu/detail?q=id:d_colgsas_2018_1_205056_01&returnUrl=search%3Fq%3DWOMGEN%25201412%26sort%3Dcourse_title%2520asc%26start%3D0%26rows%3D25) [### The Concept of Knowledge in Maghribi Mystics: From Zarruq (d. 1483) to Ahmad ibn Idris (d.1873) ](https://courses.harvard.edu/detail?q=id:d_hds_2018_1_207992_01&returnUrl=search%3Ffq_coordinated_semester_yr%3Dcoordinated_semester_yr%253A%2522Sep%2Bto%2BDec%2B2018%2B%2528Fall%2BTerm%2529%2522%26q%3DIslam%26sort%3Dcourse_title%2520asc%26start%3D0%26rows%3D25) [### Terrorism or Freedom Fighter ](https://courses.harvard.edu/detail?q=id:d_colgsas_2018_1_116353_239&returnUrl=search%3Ffq_coordinated_semester_yr%3Dcoordinated_semester_yr%253A%2522Sep%2Bto%2BDec%2B2018%2B%2528Fall%2BTerm%2529%2522%26q%3DIslam%26sort%3Dcourse_title%2520asc%26start%3D0%26rows%3D25) [### Spiritual Cultivation in Islam Part I: The Classical Era ](https://courses.harvard.edu/detail?q=id:d_hds_2018_1_205534_01&returnUrl=search%3Ffq_coordinated_semester_yr%3Dcoordinated_semester_yr%253A%2522Sep%2Bto%2BDec%2B2018%2B%2528Fall%2BTerm%2529%2522%26q%3DIslam%26sort%3Dcourse_title%2520asc%26start%3D0%26rows%3D25) This course, as part of the new HDS Initiative on Islamic Spiritual Life and Service, is intended for students preparing for vocation in a variety of settings in which they will provide Islamically-inspired service and support. The course will acquaint... [### Approaches to Studying Indo-Muslim Culture and South Asian Islam ](https://locator.tlt.harvard.edu/course/colgsas-144341/2018/spring/12697) Instructor: Ali Asani A seminar for graduate students focusing on current scholarship on Islamic civilization in South Asia. Video Publication News Events ## Video #### 9/26/19 "Gender and Curriculum in the Islamic Studies Classroom" - Prof. Kecia Ali [**3/28/19 "City and Countryside as Understood in Medieval Arabic-Persian Dictionaries" - Prof. Roy Mottahedeh**](https://islamicstudies.harvard.edu/file/1016518) #### 3/28/19 "City and Countryside as Understood in Medieval Arabic-Persian Dictionaries" - Prof. Roy Mottahedeh ## Panel 3: Integrating Islamic Studies Within Religious Studies #### Panel 1: The Qur’an and Scriptural Studies #### Panel 2: The Future of the Study of Abrahamic Traditions ## Publication Download 6 citations download- [BibTeX](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_featuredfaculty%5D&&&format=bibtex) - [EndNote X3 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_featuredfaculty%5D&&&format=endnote8) - [EndNote 7 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_featuredfaculty%5D&&&format=endnote7) - [Endnote tagged](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_featuredfaculty%5D&&&format=tagged) - [Marc](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_featuredfaculty%5D&&&format=marc) - [PubMedId](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_featuredfaculty%5D&&&format=pubmed_id) - [RIS](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=6&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_featuredfaculty%5D&&&format=ris) ### 2016 Ousmane Oumar Kane. 2016. [Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674050822) Ousmane Oumar Kane. 2016. [Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674050822) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674050822) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674050822) ### 2015 Tarek Masoud. 2015. “[Has The Door Closed on Arab Democracy?](https://research.hks.harvard.edu/publications/getFile.aspx?Id=1135)”. Journal of Democracy, 26, 1, Pp. 74-87 Tarek Masoud. 2015. “[Has The Door Closed on Arab Democracy?](https://research.hks.harvard.edu/publications/getFile.aspx?Id=1135)”. Journal of Democracy, 26, 1, Pp. 74-87 - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://research.hks.harvard.edu/publications/getFile.aspx?Id=1135) In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, democracy in the Arab world seems farther away today than at any point in the last 25 years, leaving one to conclude that the answer to the question posed in this special anniversary issue of the Journal—“Is Democracy... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://research.hks.harvard.edu/publications/getFile.aspx?Id=1135) ### 2014 Tarek Masoud. 2014. [Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt](/publications/counting-islam-religion-class-and-elections-egypt). Cambridge University Press Tarek Masoud. 2014. [Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt](/publications/counting-islam-religion-class-and-elections-egypt). Cambridge University Press - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/comparative-politics/counting-islam-religion-class-and-elections-egypt) Why does Islam seem to dominate Egyptian politics, especially when the country's endemic poverty and deep economic inequality would seem to render it promising terrain for a politics of radical redistribution rather than one of religious conservativism... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/comparative-politics/counting-islam-religion-class-and-elections-egypt) ### 2011 Ousmane Oumar Kane. 2011. [Religion, Transnationalism, and the Integration of Senegalese Immigrants in America](/publications/religion-transnationalism-and-integration-senegalese-immigrants-america). Oxford University Press Ousmane Oumar Kane. 2011. [Religion, Transnationalism, and the Integration of Senegalese Immigrants in America](/publications/religion-transnationalism-and-integration-senegalese-immigrants-america). Oxford University Press - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199732302.001.0001/acprof-9780199732302) As Senegal prepares to celebrate fifty years of independence from French colonial rule, academic and policy circles are engaged in a vigorous debate about its experience in nation building. An important aspect of this debate is the impact of globalization... - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199732302.001.0001/acprof-9780199732302) ### 2008 William A. Graham. 2008. “[Reading the ’Book of Nature’](https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/articles/summerautumn2011/reading-book-nature)”. Harvard Divinity Bulletin Summer/Autumn 2011 William A. Graham. 2008. “[Reading the ’Book of Nature’](https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/articles/summerautumn2011/reading-book-nature)”. Harvard Divinity Bulletin Summer/Autumn 2011 2008. [Order, Conflict, and Violence](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/order-conflict-and-violence/F8E5E028CB9E701FAA2C6C830E274E9F#). Cambridge University Press 2008. [Order, Conflict, and Violence](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/order-conflict-and-violence/F8E5E028CB9E701FAA2C6C830E274E9F#). Cambridge University Press - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/order-conflict-and-violence/F8E5E028CB9E701FAA2C6C830E274E9F#) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/order-conflict-and-violence/F8E5E028CB9E701FAA2C6C830E274E9F#) ## News [### Eid Mubarak! ](/news/2026/05/eid-mubarak) May 28, 2026 We at the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program wish you and your loved ones a joyous Eid al-Adha! 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