Faculty and Lecturers
Jesse Arlen
jarlen@fas.harvard.eduLecturer in Armenian Studies
Jesse S. Arlen is Lecturer in Armenian Studies at Harvard University. He is the author of many articles and book chapters relating to medieval religious literature and intellectual history, with particular attention to asceticism and mysticism. He is the...
Ali Asani (On Leave)
aliasani@fas.harvard.eduMurray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures
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 has served as the Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard...
Abdul Bhat
Preceptor in Urdu and Indo-Persian
Abdul Manan is a scholar of Islam, devotional literature, and material religion, specializing in Islamic discourses on poetry with a focus on the Persianate world. Urdu and Persian literature is at the heart of his teaching and research interests. At...
Nicholas Boylston (On Leave)
boylston@fas.harvard.eduAssistant 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...
Shaye Cohen
scohen@fas.harvard.eduNathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy (Emeritus)
Professor Cohen is the Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of Harvard University. This is one of the oldest and most distinguished professorships of Jewish studies in the...
Andrew Danielson (On Leave)
adanielson@fas.harvard.eduAssistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Andrew Danielson is a Levantine Archaeologist specializing in the first millennium BCE southern Levant. His work examines changes to sociopolitical organization and complexity, cross-cultural interaction, and identity negotiation. His work also engages...
Céline Debourse
cdebourse@fas.harvard.eduAssistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Céline Debourse is an Assyriologist specializing in the languages, history, and religion of Babylonia during the first millennium BCE. Her work draws on a broad spectrum of methods and disciplines, from rigorous philological analysis, through historical...
Khaled El-Rouayheb
kel@fas.harvard.eduJames Richard Jewett Professor of Islamic Intellectual History
Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies
Khaled El-Rouayheb’s research interests include: the intellectual and cultural history of the Arabic-Islamic world in the Mamluk and early-Ottoman periods (1200-1800); the history of Arabic logic; Islamic theology and philosophy. He holds a BA in...
Nalan Erbil
Preceptor in Modern Turkish
Anna Glenn
aglenn@fas.harvard.eduPreceptor in Sumerian
Anna Glenn is an Assyriologist specializing in the Sumerian language. Her work focuses on Sumerian literature, religion, and scribal culture of the early second millennium BCE. Starting from a strong philological basis, her research explores topics...
William A. Graham
wgraham@fas.harvard.eduHarvard University Distinguished Service Professor (Emeritus)
Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies (Emeritus)
William A. Graham was a teaching faculty member of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences 1973-2018 and a member of the Faculty of Divinity 2002-2018. He served as Dean of Harvard Divinity School from 2002 to 2012, after which he returned to fulltime...
William E. Granara
granara@fas.harvard.eduResearch Professor of the Practice of Arabic on the Gordon Gray Endowment
William Granara is research professor of the practice of Arabic language and literature at Harvard University in the departments of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Comparative Literature. He is also the founding director of Harvard Summer...
