# Shaharyar Zia PhD Candidate, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC), Islamic Intellectual History ![Shaharyar Zia, profile image](/sites/g/files/omnuum9471/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2025-11/WhatsApp%20Image%202024-09-08%20at%2012.45.53.jpeg?itok=XNZRQmBq) email Shaharyar Zia works on late-medieval and early modern Islamic intellectual history. He is interested in the scholarly traditions of Firangī Maḥall, Shāh Walī Allāh, Khayrābādīs and various Sufi groups in South Asia. In trying to situate and analyze these pedagogical traditions, he is also interested in the wider networks that spanned and connected these scholarly traditions to the rest of the Muslim world. Shaharyar is also interested in poetic cultures of South Asia and the Middle East and nuanced representations of diverse Muslim cultures on popular media and film. - ## People: Department Search [Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University](/people-department-search/department-near-eastern-languages-and-civilizations) - ## People: Filtered Search [Graduate Students](/people-filtered-search/graduate-students) - ## People: Theme Search [History of Education](/people-theme-search/history-education) [Intellectual History](/people-focus-search/intellectual-history) [Social History](/people-theme-search/social-history) - ## People: Region Search [Mediterranean](/people-region-search/mediterranean) [Middle East](/people-region-search/middle-east) [Ottoman Empire](/people-region-search/ottoman-empire) [Saudi Arabia](/people-region-search/saudi-arabia) [South Asia](/people-region-search/south-asia) - ## People: Time Period Search [16th Century](/people-time-period-search/16th-century) [17th Century](/people-time-period-search/17th-century) [18th Century](/people-time-period-search/18th-century)