Name: Mohammad Sagha

Recipient Type: Scholarship Recipient

Recipient Year: 2020

School Name: University of Chicago

Major: Islamic History and Civilization

Description: Mohammad holds a PhD in Islamic History and Civilization and was a Co-Director of the Shi'i Studies Group at the University of Chicago. He has served as an Associate and Research Director for History and Identity with the Project on Shi’ism and Global Affairs at the Weatherhead Center at Harvard University. Sagha’s research focuses on the origins of Muslim sectarian identity and political institutions, the historical development of Islamic political thought, and the geopolitics of the modern Middle East. His interests also include the influence of Late Antique Sassanian-era religious currents on later Muslim sectarian identity and intellectual thought. His dissertation examines underground revolutionary politics, debates on orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and Islamic political institutions from before the Abbasid Revolution until the capture of Baghdad by the northern Iranian Buyid dynasty and the high period of the "Shi'i Centuries." He is currently a Lecturer in the Modern Middle East at Harvard University.

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