Name: Mohammad Sagha

Recipient Year: 2020

Major: Islamic History and Civilization

Description: Mohammad is a PhD candidate in Islamic History and Civilization and a Co-Director of the Shi'i Studies Group at the University of Chicago. He is also an Associate and Research Director for History and Identity with the Project on Shi’ism and Global Affairs at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Sagha’s research focuses on the origins of Muslim sectarian identity and political institutions, the historical development of Islamic political thought, and the geopolitics of the modern Middle East. His interests also include the influence of Late Antique Sassanian-era religious currents on later Muslim sectarian identity and intellectual thought. His dissertation examines underground revolutionary politics, debates on orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and Islamic political institutions from before the Abbasid Revolution until the capture of Baghdad by the northern Iranian Buyid dynasty and the high period of the "Shi'i Centuries."

School Name: University of Chicago

Sponsor: Amana Mutual Funds

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-sagha-95aa2953/