Muslim Societies of Asia & the Pacific Lecture: Public Lecture

As part of the Muslim Societies of Asia & the Pacific Lecture, CSEAS will host two events featuring Teren Sevea, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Harvard Divinity School.

The Muslim Societies of Asia & the Pacific Lecture is a public lecture series hosted by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The lectureship aims to foster broader understanding of Muslim societies in Asia and the Pacific by bringing leading scholars to engage with students, faculty, and the wider community.

Public Lecture

Saints, Companions, and Sinners: Interspecies Histories and Lessons from Islamic Asia

Thursday, February 5, 2026, 6:00 PM | UH Manoa Art Auditorium

Speaker: Teren Sevea, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Harvard Divinity School

About Teren Sevea

Teren Sevea is the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Harvard Divinity School. A scholar of Islam and Muslim societies in South and Southeast Asia, he received his PhD in History from UCLA and previously taught South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He 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 from the Association for Asian Studies. He also coordinates the multimedia project “The Lighthouses of God: Mapping Sanctity Across the Indian Ocean.”