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
Spring 2026
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
Fall 2025
ICS 160: Islam
Fall 2024
MEDREN 370S: Understanding the Qur'an
Spring 2024
NEUROSCI 237: Religion and Science
Spring 2026
POLSCI 379S: Religion and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran
Fall 2025
RELIGION 160: Islam
Fall 2024
RELIGION 287: Religion and Science
Spring 2026
RELIGION 370S: Understanding the Qur'an
Spring 2024
RELIGION 377S: Religion and Politics in Post-Revolutionary Iran
Fall 2025
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 663: Islam and Modernism
Fall 2025
RELIGION 665S: Islamic Philosophy & Mysticism (Sufi's Approach to Philosophy)
Fall 2023
RELIGION 917S: The Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence (Usul al-Fiqh)
Spring 2026
RELIGION 920S: Ibn Arabi's Sufism: Islamic Theoretical Mysticism
Fall 2024
RELIGION 947S: Comparative Religious Studies (Case Study of Judaism, Christianity & Islam)
Spring 2025
RELIGION 999: Special Readings
Spring 2025, Spring 2024

Teaching Summary

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

 

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

Advising & Mentoring Summary

Ph.D. Co-Advisor

 

  • Muhammad Usama, Department of History, since Fall 2023

Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member                  

 

  • Christopher W. Howel, The history of Intelligent Design in the United States, Duke, Ph.D., March 2021
  • Matt Lynch, A Persian Qur’an? The Masnavi-e Ma’navi as Scripture, UNC-Chapel Hill, Ph.D., December 2018
  • Rose Aslan, “From Body to Shrine: The Construction of Sacred Space at the Grave of `Ali ibn Abi Talib in Najaf.” UNC-Chapel Hill, Ph.D., May 2014

Master’s Adviser

 

  • César A. Palacios Moscoso, since Fall 2022
  • Arpan Bhandari, Fall 2018
  • Daniel Spisak, Spring 2015
  • Lauren Wall, Spring 2014

Undergraduate Adviser

 

  • Tyler Chery, November 2017 - December 2020 

Undergraduate Honors Thesis advisor

 

  • Abdul Rahman Abdul Latif, “Darwinism in Islam,” Duke University, April 2016