Who We Are

We are Harvard's central program for bringing faculty, students, and researchers together who work on Muslim societies.

We are part of the Alwaleed Cultural Network of academic centers that promote mutual understanding between the Muslim World and the West.

Khaled manuscriptProfessor Khaled El-Rouayheb

Faculty Director, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program
Chair, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and Islamic Intellectual History

 
Khaled El-Rouayheb is James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic and of Islamic Intellectual History at the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations at Harvard University. His research interests include: the intellectual and cultural history of the Arabic-Islamic world in the early-modern period (1500-1800); the history of Arabic logic; Islamic theology and philosophy. He holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), a MA in Middle Eastern History from the American University of Beirut (Lebanon), and a PhD (2003) in Oriental Studies from the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). He has been a Junior Research Fellow of the British Academy (2003-2006), a Junior Mellon Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2008-2009), and a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2011-12).

His publications include the four monographs:  The Development of Arabic Logic, 1200-1800 (Schwabe Verlag 2019), Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century: Scholarly Currents in the Ottoman Empire and the Maghreb (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Relational Syllogisms & the History of Arabic Logic, 900-1900 (Brill, 2010); and Before Homosexuality in the Arabic-Islamic World, 1500-1800 (University of Chicago Press, 2005). He has also co-edited (with Sabine Schmidtke) the Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy (Oxford University Press 2916). His edition with introduction of Kashf al-asrar ‘an ghawamid al-afkar by Afdal al-Din al-Khunaji (d.1248), published by the Iranian Institute for Philosophy (2010), was selected in 2011 as the distinguished book by the National Library and Archives of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

 

Alwaleed Bin Talal Professors

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David Roxburgh

Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History

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Ousmane Kane

Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society

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Malika Zeghal

Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life

Teren Sevea

Teren Sevea

Alwaleed Bin Talal Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies

Faculty Steering Committee

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Tarek Masoud

Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Governance
Harvard Kennedy School
Tarek Masoud is the Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Governance at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.... Read more about Tarek Masoud
John F. Kennedy School of Government
124 Mount Auburn St. 200N-246
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: 617-496-3036
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Ali Asani

Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies
Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures
12 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
p: 617-495-5755
Gareth Doherty

Gareth Doherty

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture Program
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Gund Hall, 302
p: 617-496-4500