#  Alyjan Daya 

Student Assistant

 

 

 



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 email <adaya@fas.harvard.edu> 

 



 

Alyjan Daya is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages &amp; 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.



 

 

 





 

 

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