Scholars@Duke
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  

Recent Courses

AMES 126S: Understanding the Qur'an
Spring 2024
AMES 160: Islam
Fall 2024
AMES 213S: Muslim Ethics and Islamic Law: Issues and Debates
Fall 2023
CULANTH 402: The Problem of Evil: God, Evil, Suffering, Sin, Meaning of Life, and Philosophy of Religion
Spring 2024
ETHICS 287: Religion and Science
Fall 2022
ETHICS 402: The Problem of Evil: God, Evil, Suffering, Sin, Meaning of Life, and Philosophy of Religion
Spring 2024
ETHICS 403: Philosophy of Religion
Spring 2025
ETHICS 947S: Comparative Religious Studies (Case Study of Judaism, Christianity & Islam)
Spring 2025
HISTORY 265S: Religion and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran
Spring 2023
ICS 160: Islam
Fall 2024
MEDREN 370S: Understanding the Qur'an
Spring 2024
MEDREN 374S: Islam & the Meaning of Life
Spring 2023
NEUROSCI 237: Religion and Science
Fall 2022
POLSCI 379S: Religion and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran
Spring 2023
RELIGION 160: Islam
Fall 2024
RELIGION 287: Religion and Science
Fall 2022
RELIGION 370S: Understanding the Qur'an
Spring 2024
RELIGION 374S: Islam & the Meaning of Life
Spring 2023
RELIGION 377S: Religion and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran
Spring 2023
RELIGION 388S: Muslim Ethics and Islamic Law: Issues and Debates
Fall 2023
RELIGION 401: The Problem of Evil: God, Evil, Suffering, Sin, Meaning of Life, and Philosophy of Religion
Spring 2024
RELIGION 402: Philosophy of Religion
Spring 2025
RELIGION 493: Honors Research
Fall 2024
RELIGION 494: Honors Research
Spring 2025
RELIGION 665S: Islamic Philosophy & Mysticism (Sufi's Approach to Philosophy)
Fall 2023
RELIGION 920S: Ibn Arabi's Sufism: Islamic Theoretical Mysticism
Fall 2024
RELIGION 946S: Comparative Medieval Philosophy (Al-Farabi, Avicenna, Al-Ghazali, Averroes, Maimonides, Aquinas)
Fall 2022
RELIGION 947S: Comparative Religious Studies (Case Study of Judaism, Christianity & Islam)
Spring 2025
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