Ariela Marcus-Sells

The Religious Studies Department is now accepting applications for scholarships for the 2022-2023 academic year. The application deadline is March 11.

The article by the assistant professor of religious studies examines an Arabic text written by a Sufi Muslim scholar named Sīdi Muḥammad al-Kuntī, who lived in the Sahara Desert in the 19th century. The article argues that this scholar based his family's claim to social authority on their control over powerful practices that they called "the sciences of the unseen." 

The assistant professor of religious studies will use the support from the National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to support her work on a book manuscript. 

An assistant professor of religious studies and Distinguished Emerging Scholar, Marcus-Sells presented the paper at Harvard Divinity School on Sept. 15. 

A talk about an African religious and intellectual tradition with Oludamini Ogunnaike. 

6-7:15 p.m. in the McBride Gathering Space in the Numen Lumen Pavilion.