Islam

Jocelyne Cesari is a Visiting Professor of Religion and Politics at HDS. She is a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, Professor of Religion and Politics at University of Birmingham (England)...

"I started studying religion more fully and more broadly when I went to college. I realized that as a Muslim woman, my voice and my experience was being used to perpetuate a discourse that didn’t include me on either side." —Alizeh Ahmad, MTS ’18

In this panel of the Beyond Bans, Beyond Walls: Women, Gender & Islam Symposium, Zulfiyya Abdurahimova, Mariam Durrani, Nadeem Mazen, and Haley Rogers, discuss political movements and resistance. Listen

Ousmane Kane discusses his recent publication, Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa.

Writing is freedom for Precious Rasheeda Muhammad, MTS ’01: freedom from the life-threatening allergies and respiratory problems that have plagued her since she was a child; freedom from the prejudice and misunderstanding she experienced growing up...

The Harvard Gazette interviewed Professor Ousmane Kane to illuminate the roots and influence of Islam in Africa, which is home to nearly 30 percent of the world’s Muslims . On April 3, at 5:15 pm, at the CSWR, he will discuss his book, “Beyond Timbuktu...

Texts, Knowledge, and Practice: The Meaning of Scholarship in Muslim Africa aims to rethink how such an evolution in the study of Islamic scholarship in Africa today occurred. Listen

HDS student Heather Rick talks about her unlikely road to HDS, the role of writers in today's political climate, and how she found inspiration in Muslim punk rock.

In a letter last weekend to the Harvard community supporting international students and faculty, President Drew Faust unveiled a plan to appoint the first full-time University-wide Muslim chaplain. Under the plan, which was the result of months of...

Ousmane Kane, HDS’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society, wants to paint a much broader and more accurate picture of Islam. A leader among a burgeoning group of scholars in the field, Kane works to bring the...