Search

Sort & Filters

Filters

Content type
Year
202 results for "Faculty"
202 results for "Faculty"

Thomas M. Scanlon

Person

Professor Scanlon taught philosophy at Princeton University before coming to Harvard in 1984. He is the advisory editor of Philosophy and Public Affairs and was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, where he delivered the Tanner Lectures on...

HDS 3368: Islam, Modernity, and Politics

Resource
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...

HDS 3176/RELIGION 1807: What is (Lived) Islam?

Resource
Instructor: Teren Sevea What are the academic approaches to studying Islam? How do our academic approaches help us engage the question: what is Islam? This course begins by considering how 'Islam' is an object of academic inquiry but remains primarily...

PERSIAN 108/HDS 3045: Persian Sufi Literature

Resource
Instructor: Nicholas Boylston In this course we will explore the major genres of classical Persian Sufi poetry and prose. In addition to examining the formation of these genres and their contexts of composition, we will pursue a range of broader questions...

Inaugural Harvard-Zaytuna Thesis Symposium

Events
The Alwaleed Program is proud to support The Inaugural Harvard-Zaytuna Thesis Symposium Spring 2023 This collaboration is a joint effort initiated by students at Harvard University and Zaytuna College. We aim to provide a space for undergraduates and...

HDS 3175/RELIGION 1821: Indian Ocean Islam

Resource
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...

HDS 3117/RELIGION 1014TS: Animals and the Unseen

Resource
Instructor: Teren Sevea This course considers how we can write histories of religious animals and the Unseen. Students will be introduced to academic literature that has criticized scholarly and popular conceptions of humans having a special status, and...

Ep. 13 | Miracles and Material Life | Prof. Teren Sevea

Page
We talk to Professor Teren Sevea, scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia, about the importance of Southeast Asia and the broader Indian Ocean world to Islamic studies and why the region has been treated as peripheral in the...