Haroon Moghul

Haroon Moghul is a Fellow at New America Foundation and a Ph.D. candidate in Columbia University's Department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies. His research focus is colonial India, and specifically Muhammad Iqbal's project of reconstructing religious thought in Islam. Haroon is the Fellow in Muslim Politics and Societies at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School and is on the Board of the Multicultural Audience Development Initiative at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. He holds an M.A. in Middle East and South Asian Studies from Columbia University. Haroon is an Associate Editor and columnist at Religion Dispatches; his writing has also been featured on al-Jazeera, Foreign Policy, and The Huffington Post.

In his novel, The Order of Light (Penguin 2006), young Muslims light themselves on fire to protest the authoritarian reality of the Middle East, an eerie forecasting of recent events. Haroon has appeared on CNN, BBC, al-Jazeera, NPR, The History Channel, and Russia Today. He is a Senior Editor at The Islamic Monthly and a Fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. He serves as an expert guide to the Muslim heritage of Spain, Bosnia, and Turkey. His memoir, How to be a Muslim is forthcoming from Beacon Press.