Teena Purohit
147 Bay State Road, Suite 404
Boston, MA 02215
T: 617.358.1755; F: 617.358.3087
Email: tpurohit@bu.edu
Fall 2009 Hours: Tues, Thurs
1:00PM-2:00PM

Teena Purohit will be joining 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 at Columbia University and 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 book manuscript, The Modernity of Muslim Identity: Ismaili Sectarianism in Colonial India.

Complete CV

Courses:

CAS RN100 Religion & Culture
CAS RN214 Islam
CAS RN341/641 Islamic Mysticism: Sufism
CAS RN425/725 Topics in South Asian Religions