Dr. Harun Spevack\u00a0specializes 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.)<\/p>\n
He is also a Visiting Scholar in Harvard\u2019s Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and teaches courses on Islam, Islamic Finance, and World Religions in Harvard\u2019s Division of Continuing Education. Previously, he has been a visiting researcher in Harvard Law School\u2019s Program in Islamic Law where he worked on\u00a0Talfiq\u00a0(legal\u00a0patch-working)\u00a0in Inheritance, Divorce, and Islamic Finance.<\/p>\n
Dr. Harun also serves as Muslim Chaplain and as a Senior Research Associate at Brandeis University where he heads a three-year research project on Islamic Philosophy; included in this project is the founding of the American Society of Islamic Philosophy and Theology.<\/p>\n
He serves as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Islamic Philosophy and has published a number of books and articles on topics in Islamic law, theology, logic, and Sufism. Prior to his academic career he taught Music Theory at Ai New England Institute of Art, Arabic at Boston University, and private musical instrumental and ensemble lessons at Music Maker Studios (Brighton, MA) and Buckingham, Brown, and Nichols high school (Cambridge, MA.)
\nHe is also a founder and director of Boston\u2019s Bukhari Institute, which, since 2001, has offered educational programs on the arts and sciences of the Islamic world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9283,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chapel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chapel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chapel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chapel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chapel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chapel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1029\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chapel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}