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Department ofReligious Studies

Daniel Morgan

Daniel Morgan

Assistant Professor

Daniel Morgan received his BA and M.Phil. from the University of Oxford and Ph.D. from the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago in 2020. Daniel has taught courses on Indian and Islamic history at the University of Chicago and served as an Adjunct Professor at Loyola University in Chicago.

His research focuses on Islamic thought and Sufism in the Mughal Empire, with a specific interest in applied cosmological sciences and reformist political theology. He is currently writing an intellectual and social history of the Naqshbandi Sufis of North India in the early-modern period.

Daniel is also the Assistant Editor of the journal South Asian Intellectual History.