# Teren Sevea Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School ![Teren Sevea](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/cmes/files/sevea_teren.png?itok=lumCXU0E) email laptop\_windows [Harvard Divinity School](https://www.hds.harvard.edu/people/teren-sevea) Teren Sevea is a scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia, and received his PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Before joining HDS, he served as Assistant Professor of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Sevea is the author of *Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya* (Cambridge University Press, 2020), which received the 2022 Harry J.Benda Prize, awarded by the Association of Asian Studies. Sevea also co-edited *Islamic Connections: Muslim Societies in South and Southeast Asia* (ISEAS, 2009). He is currently completing his second book entitled "Singapore Islam: The Prophet's Port and Sufism across the Oceans," and is working on his third monograph, provisionally entitled "Animal Saints and Sinners: Lessons on Islam and Multispeciesism from the East." Sevea is the author of book chapters and journal articles pertaining to Indian Ocean networks, Sufi textual traditions, Islamic erotology, Islamic third worldism, and the socioeconomic significance of spirits, that have been published in journals such as *Third World Quarterly*, *Modern Asian Studies*, *The Indian Economic and Social History Review* and *Journal of Sufi Studies*. - ## People [Faculty](/people/faculty) [Other Faculty](/people/other-faculty) - ## Research by Field [Religion](/research-field/religion)