Dr. Irfan Moeen Khan is an Assistant Professor of Religion at the Mushtaq Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences. His dissertation entitled Rethinking the Sufi Shrine: A Metaphysics of Presence looks at the theopoetics of ritual experience of pilgrimage to Sufi shrines in the Indus, and the politics of scripture in regulating vernacular Sufism. His academic specialization is in the study of religion, Sufi metaphysics and aesthetics, and Islamic reformism.
Areas of interest: comparative mysticism, philosophy, print technology and reform, political theology, and Quranic studies.
He teaches the following introductory and upper-level courses: 鈥淚ntroduction to Islamic Studies (a survey course),鈥 鈥淭heories and Methods in the Study of Religion,鈥 鈥淲hat is Islamic History?鈥 and 鈥淎pproaches to the Study of Islam.鈥
Education:
- PhD Harvard University, MA
- M.A McGill University, Montreal
- B.A Millersville University, Penn.