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Payam Mohseni

pmohseni@hds.harvard.edu

Project Director. Lecturer, Department of Government, Harvard University; Lecturer, Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School.

Research interests: Comparative politics and international relations of the Middle East and North Africa; hybrid regimes; Iranian state and society; Islam and politics; political economy; civil society; and democratization. Dr. Payam Mohseni is the...

Ali Asani

Faculty Director. Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies; and, Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, Harvard University

Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Ali Asani is Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures. He served as the Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard...

Nicholas Boylston

boylston@fas.harvard.edu

Faculty Advisory Committee Member

Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Nicholas Boylston is a scholar of classical Persian literature and Persianate Islam. His research focuses on themes of diversity and unity in the writings of Sufis, philosophers and litterateurs from the Persianate world. He is currently completing a book...

Diana Eck

dianaeck@fas.harvard.edu

Affiliate Scholar. Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society, Harvard University

Diana Eck's academic work has a dual focus—India and America—and in both cases she is interested in the challenges of religious pluralism in a multi-religious society. Her work on India includes the books Banaras: City of Light and Darsan: Seeing the...

Mohsen Goudarzi

mgoudarzi@hds.harvard.edu

Faculty Advisory Committee Member

Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School

Mohsen Goudarzi is an Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at the Harvard Divinity School faculty, having taught previously at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities). He is an expert in Qur'anic Studies and his scholarship is leading to the...

Mohammad Sagha

msagha@g.harvard.edu

Faculty Advisory Committee Member

Lecturer in the Modern Middle East, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Research Interests: History of sectarianism in Islam, Islamic social and political history, early Islam and late antique Near East, social network theory, transnational connections in Arab and Persianate worlds, sectarian identity in the modern Middle...