Alyjan Daya
Student Assistant
Alyjan Daya is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations at Harvard University, specializing in Islamic Studies. He researches the history and development of Ismaili theology and philosophy in the tenth and eleventh centuries, with a particular focus on the intellectual foundations of early Ismaili thought and its intersections with broader Islamic and Syriac-Christian theological traditions. Methodologically, Alyjan combines traditional philological and historical research in Arabic, Persian, and Syriac with attention to the transmission of ideas across confessional and linguistic boundaries.