Ahmed, Shahab

(Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts) Shahab Ahmed joined Harvard University in Fall 2005 as Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies with a joint appointment between the Committee on the Study of Religion, and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. He was previously Visiting Researcher in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, and Assistant Professor of Classical Arabic Literature in the Department of Arabic Studies at the American University in Cairo. He spent the academic year 2007-2008 as Higher Education Commission of Pakistan Visiting Scholar in the Islamic Research Institute, Islamabad. He obtained his PhD in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University, and his BA in Middle East History from the American University in Cairo, prior to which he attended the International Islamic University, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. He received his preparatory schooling in England at Caterham School, and in Singapore at the Anglo-Chinese School.