# People Sort & Filters close ## Filters People Categories expand\_more - Administration (2) - Affiliate Scholars (2) Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 6 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by Last Name A-ZLast Name Z-A sort list grid\_view ## 6 results [### Payam Mohseni ](/people/payam-mohseni) 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... ![Payam Mohseni](/sites/g/files/omnuum3186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/shiism-global-affairs/files/payam_mohseni.jpg?itok=PgwQyV6C) [### Ali Asani ](/people/ali-asani-0)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... ![Ali Asani](/sites/g/files/omnuum3186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/shiism-global-affairs/files/ali_asani_3_002.jpg?itok=qs7TmZ-h) [### Nicholas Boylston ](/people/nicholas-boylston-0) 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... ![boylston](/sites/g/files/omnuum3186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/shiism-global-affairs/files/img_3423.jpeg?itok=sTggBZGu) [### Diana Eck ](/people/diana-eck) 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... ![Eck](/sites/g/files/omnuum3186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/shiism-global-affairs/files/eck1.jpg?itok=RPFy8HNM) [### Mohsen Goudarzi ](/people/mohsen-goudarzi) 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... ![goudarzi](/sites/g/files/omnuum3186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/shiism-global-affairs/files/mohsen-profile-294x400.jpg?itok=GRH7lS9w) [### Mohammad Sagha ](/people/mohammad-sagha) 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... ![M Sagha 1](/sites/g/files/omnuum3186/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/shiism-global-affairs/files/sagha._mohammad_2.jpg?itok=CcL80H8p)