Dr. Farah El-Sharif

Researcher and scholar of Islamic intellectual history and contemporary thought

She received her PhD from Harvard University’s Near Eastern Languages and Civilization Department in 2022 where she focused on the Islamic scholarship of 19th century West Africa. Her academic interests lie in Islam in West and North Africa, the nation-state and the intersection of Islamic law and Sufism, and Islam and colonialism. She has completed research in various countries such as Jordan, Egypt, Morocco, and Senegal.

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