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The Alwaleed Program team speak with Dr. Mary Elston, winner of the 2020 Alwaleed Bin Talal Prize for Best Dissertation in Islamic Studies, about her dissertation entitled, "Reviving Turāth: Islamic Education in Modern Egypt." Mary shares her findings...

Faculty Directors: Malika Zeghal (NELC and the Committee on the Study of Religion), mzeghal@fas.harvard.edu Kristen Stilt (Harvard Law School), kstilt@law.harvard.edu Graduate Student Coordinators: Johannes Makar, jmakar@g.harvard.edu Armaan Siddiqi...

In her recent book, The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa (Princeton University Press, 2024), Professor Malika Zeghal shows how Muslim states negotiated the role of Islam in governance in the 19 th...

The Alwaleed Program offers grants for early-career faculty that are conducting new research in Islamic studies.

Fall 2025 courses at Harvard that touch on Islam.

The core faculty members of the Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program (AISP) come from academic departments and centers from across Harvard University. They are deeply involved with AISP activities, lecture widely and teach courses focused on the wider Islamic...