Overview
Muhammad Usama is a doctoral student in the Department of History at Duke University. He specializes in early modern intellectual history in South and West Asia, with particular attention to the Middle East. His research examines the Ottoman–Mughal–Safavid networks of early modern scholarship in Islamic law, ethics, and philosophical mysticism. He is currently working on the intellectual thought of the eighteenth-century Mughal philosopher Aḥmad Walī Allāh (d. 1762) of Delhi, situating his work within a transregional context.
Education: BA in Economics and Political Science, Duke University ('23)
Phd. History, Duke University (Cont.)
Cohort Year: 2023
Languages: Arabic and Persian