Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

Aaron Spevack

Affiliated Research Faculty, Islamic Philosophy and Theology

Muslim Chaplain, Center for Spiritual Life

Profile

Aaron Spevack specializes in Islamic Intellectual History, with an emphasis on 13th-19th-century law, theology, and Sufism and their reception in contemporary Muslim communities. He has published two books and a number of articles on Islamic intellectual history including The Archetypal Sunni Scholar: Law, Theology, and Mysticism in the Synthesis of al-Bajuri (SUNY, 2014.) He is also a Visiting Scholar in Harvard's Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and teaches courses on Islam, Islamic Finance, and World Religions in Harvard's Division of Continuing Education. Previously, he has been a visiting researcher in Harvard Law School's Program in Islamic Law where he worked on Talfiq (legal patch-working) in Inheritance, Divorce, and Islamic Finance.