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Zahra Moballegh is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Islam and WSRP Research Associate at Harvard Divinity School for the 2025-26, 2024-25, 2023-24, and 2018–19 academic years. Her current 2025-26 research project "Islamic Narrative Theology: Voice, Gender, and Authority in the Qur’an" examines storytelling through collective narrators in the Qur'an to challenge unitary male conceptions of divine authority.
Education:
- PhD in Philosophy, University of Tehran, 2012
- MA in Philosophy, University of Tehran
- BA in Philosophy, University of Tehran
Dr. Moballegh specializes in feminist reinterpretations of Islamic theology through narratology, analyzing women's stories in the Qur'an to expose systematic silences and reconstruct gendered authority. Her foundational work includes the first Persian feminist theology book "Faith as Reason" and "Logical Structure of Illuminationist Philosophies", which applies feminist critique to Islamic philosophical traditions. She has contributed extensively to Zanan e Emrooz magazine and the Encyclopedia Islamica Foundation, notably authoring the "Woman in the Qur’an" entry.
Her Harvard research projects—including "Narrating for Love and Change" (2023-25) and "From Being to Becoming Woman" (2018-19)—explore 25 Qur'anic women's narratives through linguistic-narratological analysis. She teaches courses on gendered Qur'anic language, Islamic philosophy, and narrative-based feminist theology, bridging classical Islamic scholarship with contemporary gender theory.
