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Paul Anderson
Harvard University
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
Islamic Studies
Arabic
Comparative
Persian
Christian Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Syria
Iran
Specialties
Shi`i Intellectual History
Comparative Semitic Linguistics
Islamic Philosophy
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Syriac (intermediate)
Persian (intermediate)
Coptic (elementary)
Sanskrit (intermediate)
Greek (elementary)
Hebrew (intermediate)
Education
MA | 2013 | Arabic/Islamic Studies | The American University in Cairo
BA | 2009 | Arabic/Linguistics | State University of New York at Binghamton
Abstracts
Echoes of the Gnostics: ‘Kitāb Kanz al-Walad’ of al-Ḥāmidī and the Incorporation of Mythic Cosmology into Ismāʿīlī Thought Ties of Blood and Water: The Ritualization of Knowledge and the Legitimization of the Dāʿī Muṭlaq in Ṭayyibī Shiʿism Projections: Gendering the Spiritual in Ismāʿīlī Cosmology