Harvard Islamic Society

http://harvardislamicsociety.com

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Contact: harvardislamicsociety@gmail.com

We seek to provide an inclusive community and meaningful programs for all students, Muslims or otherwise, who seek a home away from home. In the 1950s, the Harvard Muslim community consisted of a few foreign graduate students. It was at this time that Syed Hossein Nasr, a doctoral student in Islamic cosmology and science, and Yusuf Ibish, a post-doctoral student working on translating the works of the Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun, recognized the need for a student organization to serve the Muslim community and to advocate for it to the administration. The Harvard Islamic Society was established in 1955 to fill this role. American-born Muslim students first enrolled in the university in the 1970s, and by the late 1980s, the Islamic Society had grown into a vibrant organization with a substantial enrollment of both Muslim undergraduate and graduate students. Serve the spiritual needs of Muslims at Harvard, while educating the greater college community about the nation’s and the world’s fastest growing, and perhaps least understood, faith.

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