#  Malika Zeghal 

Faculty Associate (on leave 2025–2026); Harvard Academy Senior Scholar.

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.

 

 

 



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 location\_on 12 Quincy Street, Barker Center 411, Cambridge, MA 02138 

 smartphone [(617) 384-8432](<tel:(617) 384-8432>) 

 email <mzeghal@fas.harvard.edu> 

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**Research interests:** Islam and politics in the modern Middle East; Islamist movements and the institutionalization of Islam in the Muslim world; and Muslim diasporas in North America and western Europe.



 

 

 





 

 

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