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Dr. Ali Asani, who was born and raised in Kenya, came to Harvard as an undergraduate in 1973 and has been there ever since. A concentrator in comparative religion, he later pursued his doctorate work on Near Eastern languages, developing his dissertation on the ginans, the religious texts of the Ismaili branch of Islam. Capitalizing on his multilingual fluency in Urdu, Hindi, Persian, Gujarati, Sindhi, and Swahili, he began teaching at Harvard’s Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Today a tenured professor, his research focuses on Shia and Sufi devotional traditions of Islam, as well as popular or folk forms of Muslim devotional life. He is a Professor of Indo-Muslim and Islamic Religion and Cultures, the Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the Director of the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University http://www.faculty.harvard.edu/node/788 Dr Asani is a member of the Council of Conscience, a multi-faith, multi-national group of religious thinkers and leaders, which crafted the Charter for Compassion based on contributions submitted by people from all over the world.
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