Islamic Studies: Faculty

Hamid Mavani, Ph.D., McGill University (Islamic Studies, CGU)

• Research Interests:  Twelver Shi’ism, Qur’anic Studies, Islamic legal reform, Muslims in America, and Contemporary developments in the Muslim world.

Zayn Kassam, Ph.D., McGill University (Religion, Pomona College

• Research Interests: Islamic ethics, gender issues, philosophy and mysticism

Arash Khazeni, Ph.D., Yale University (History, Claremont McKenna College)

• Research Interests: History and Anthropology of Iran and Afghanistan; Islamic Societies and Cultures; Transformation of Natural Environments; Frontiers and Borderlands; Ethnic Identity; Political Ecology of Oil