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Instructor: Intisar Rabb Description: This course will survey core concepts of Islamic law ( sharia) in historical and comparative modern contexts. Popular perceptions of this legal system imagine it to be a static code from 7th-century Arabia. Islamic...

Contact Harvard Divinity School’s Muslim Council is a non-denominational association that extends a Muslim narrative to the broader Harvard community and greater Boston area. The Council aims to sustain and strengthen Muslim life on campus through social...

This course explores the contents of the Quran and probes its place in the history of human civilization. Students will learn about and critically reflect on the following subjects: 1) the Quran’s core ideas, stories, laws, parables, and arguments; 2) the...

Instructor: Mohsen Goudarzi This course explores the contents of the Quran and probes its place in the history of human civilization. Students will learn about and critically reflect on the following subjects: 1) the Quran’s core ideas, stories, laws...

Instructor: Rahina Muazu The perception of the female voice in Muslim West Africa as part of her ʿ awra (nudity, nakedness), which is determining socially and religiously acceptable gender roles for women, is not only a result of difference in legal...

Instructor: Nurhaizatul Jamil This course aims to ethnographically examine the relation among pious subject-formation, race, and gender as they relate to Muslim women’s social media engagements. We will interrogate the ways that Muslim women function as...