Department of Religion
Assistant Professor of Religion

Teena Purohit joined the Religion Department in Fall 2009. She received her Ph.D in Religion at Columbia University in 2007. she has taught classes on major texts of the Middle East and South Asia and Columbia and on South Asian Religions at UC Irvine. Professor Purohit's research and teaching interests focus on the history of Islam in South Asia, religion and colonialism, and South Asian history and historiography. She is currently working on her manuscript, The Modernity of Muslim Identity: Ismaili Sectarianism in Colonial India.

For more information see:      http://web.bu.edu/religion/faculty/TeenaPurohit.html

Courses:

Islamic Mysticism: Sufism (RN 341/641)
Topics in South Asian Religions (RN 425/725)