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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

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Recent Courses

AMES 126S: Understanding the Qur'an

AMES 160: Islam

AMES 213S: Muslim Ethics and Islamic Law: Issues and Debates

CULANTH 402: The Problem of Evil: God, Evil, Suffering, Sin, Meaning of Life, and Philosophy of Religion

ETHICS 287: Religion and Science

ETHICS 402: The Problem of Evil: God, Evil, Suffering, Sin, Meaning of Life, and Philosophy of Religion

ETHICS 403: Philosophy of Religion

ETHICS 947S: Comparative Religious Studies (Case Study of Judaism, Christianity & Islam)

HISTORY 265S: Religion and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran

ICS 160: Islam

MEDREN 370S: Understanding the Qur'an

NEUROSCI 237: Religion and Science

POLSCI 379S: Religion and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran

RELIGION 160: Islam

RELIGION 287: Religion and Science

RELIGION 370S: Understanding the Qur'an

RELIGION 377S: Religion and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran

RELIGION 388S: Muslim Ethics and Islamic Law: Issues and Debates

RELIGION 401: The Problem of Evil: God, Evil, Suffering, Sin, Meaning of Life, and Philosophy of Religion

RELIGION 402: Philosophy of Religion

RELIGION 493: Honors Research

RELIGION 494: Honors Research

RELIGION 663: Islam and Modernism

RELIGION 665S: Islamic Philosophy & Mysticism (Sufi's Approach to Philosophy)

RELIGION 917S: The Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence (Usul al-Fiqh)

RELIGION 920S: Ibn Arabi's Sufism: Islamic Theoretical Mysticism

RELIGION 947S: Comparative Religious Studies (Case Study of Judaism, Christianity & Islam)

RELIGION 999: Special Readings

Spring 2025, Spring 2024

Teaching Activities

RELIGION 377S / AMES 288S / POLSCI 379S / HISTORY 265 S: Religion and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran

REL 527S / RIGHTS 527S: Islam and Human Rights