Welcome to Dr. Javad T. Hashmi's Substack.
Islamic Studies specialist at the intersection of academic research, public scholarship, and faith-based reflection.
Hello, world!
For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Dr. Javad T. Hashmi. I am a PhD candidate in the Study of Religion (Islamic Studies) at Harvard University, a former Fellow of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School, and a practicing emergency physician. I am a specialist in Quranic Studies, Islamic intellectual history (with a focus on Islamic modernism), and the intersection of religion & violence.
I run a YouTube channel called “The Impactful Scholar,” which you can subscribe to here: https://www.youtube.com/@ImpactfulScholar/videos.
As a Muslim academic, I believe it is important that we actively engage with critical scholarship in Islamic Studies and translate these findings for a wider audience. This will also help to combat the twinned extremes of Muslim fundamentalism and Islamophobia. Most importantly, the findings of modern critical scholarship will come to bear on our own understandings of the faith.
I am most active on Twitter (@DrJavadTHashmi), where you can easily reach me. However, I have realized that some of my longer Twitter threads get unwieldy nor was I doing a good job of collating them. Therefore, I will now try to utilize this Substack in lieu of those longer threads… and I plan on maintaining this as my blog.