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Mohsen Kadivar

Mohsen Kadivar

Research Professor in the Department of Religious Studies
Religious Studies
mohsen.kadivar@duke.edu
403 Chapel Drive, 118 Gray Bldg., Box 90964, Durham, NC 27708
Room 216 Gray Building, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours By appointment  

Research Interests

- Classical and Modern Islamic Thought: 
  • Qur'anic Studies, and the Tradition of the Prophet, 
  • Islamic Mysticism (Sufism), and Islamic Ethics,
  • Islamic Philosophy, and Comparative Medieval Philosophy,  
  • Islamic Theology (kalam), and Comparative Religious Studies,
  • Islamic Jurisprudence (fiqh), and the Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence (usul al-fiqh),  
  • Philosophy of Religion:The Meaning of Life, The Problem of Evil, and Religion and Science,
  • Islam and Politics, Islam and Modernity, Islam and Human Rights, Islam and Feminism.
  • History of Muslims in colonial and post-colonial eras.
- Intersections of “Islamic Studies”, and the “History of Thought.”

Selected Grants

Islamic Theocracy in the Secular Age

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Humanities Center · 2019 - 2020

Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin · 2017 - 2017

A Human Rights and Islamic Law Program

ResearchFaculty Member · Awarded by Open Society Institute, New York · 2013 - 2014

Fellowships, Gifts, and Supported Research

Fellowship of National Humanities Center · September 2019 - May 2020 Awarded by: Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
Fellow of Wissenschaftskolleg: · January 2017 - July 2017 Awarded by: Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, Germany
Nannerl O.Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor, · August 2014 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University at Durham, NC · Awarded by: Department of Religious Studies: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University at Durham, NC
Global Ethics Fellow · August 2012 - December 2014 Awarded by: Carnegie Council: The Voice of Ethics in International Affairs, New York, NY
Visiting Scholar · 2002 Awarded by: Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, US
Hellman-Hammett Grant · 2000 Awarded by: Human Rights Watch "to recognize the courage of writers around the world who have been targets of political persecution"