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Mr. Bilal Khadim

Princeton PhD Scholar & Islamic Intellectual Historian

Adjunct Faculty

Seeta Majeed School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Bilal Khadim is Adjunct Faculty at SLASS, Beaconhouse National University, and a PhD candidate in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton, specializing in Islamic intellectual history. He holds an MTS from Harvard Divinity School and a BSc in Economics from LUMS, and previously taught at the University of Lahore and UMT.

Bio

Bilal Khadim is a scholar of Islamic intellectual history and an educator serving as Adjunct Faculty at the Seeta Majeed School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (SLASS), Beaconhouse National University (BNU), Lahore. His academic interests span Islamic philosophy, the intellectual and religious history of the Near East, and the humanities more broadly.

Bilal is a PhD Candidate in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, where his research focuses on Islamic intellectual history. He holds a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, with a concentration in Islamic philosophy, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He has also completed advanced-level intensive Arabic training at the Qasid Arabic Institute in Amman, Jordan.

At Princeton, he has served as a Teaching Assistant across the Departments of Near Eastern Studies, Religion, and History and the Humanities Division, and as a Graduate Writing Fellow at the Princeton Writing Center. In Pakistan, he has designed and taught undergraduate courses at the University of Management and Technology and the University of Lahore, where he was part of the core group that founded the School of Social Sciences. His graduate work has been supported by several Princeton research and language study fellowships.

Academics

  • PhD Candidate in Near Eastern Studies – Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA (2020–Present)
    • Focus: Islamic intellectual history
  • Intensive Arabic Program (Advanced Level) – Qasid Arabic Institute, Amman, Jordan (2018)
  • Master of Theological Studies – Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA (2011–2013)
    • Concentration: Islamic philosophy
  • B.Sc. in Economics – Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan (2006–2010)

Experience

Academic Appointments
  • Adjunct Faculty, Seeta Majeed School of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (SLASS), Beaconhouse National University (BNU), Lahore
  • Lecturer, Institute for the Liberal Arts, University of Management and Technology (UMT), Lahore (Fall 2019)
    • Designed and taught his own courses.
  • Lecturer, School of Integrated Social Sciences, University of Lahore, Lahore (Fall 2016–2019)
    • Designed and taught his own undergraduate courses.
    • Member of the core group that founded the School of Social Sciences.
Graduate Teaching & Writing Roles
  • Teaching Assistant, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (2020–Present)
    • Courses: Ethics of War and Peace in Islam; Near Eastern Humanities I: From Antiquity to Islam; History of Palestine/Israel; The Politics of Modern Islam.
    • Taught in the Departments of Near Eastern Studies, Religion, and History, and the Humanities Division.
    • Led course sections, contributed to designing assessments and grading coursework, and managed course logistics.
  • Graduate Writing Fellow, Princeton Writing Center, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (Fall 2024–Spring 2025)
    • Advised graduate and undergraduate students on their writing in 80-minute and 50-minute one-on-one appointments, respectively.

Honors and Grants

  • Donald and Mary Hyde Academic-Year Research Fellowship, Princeton University (2022–23)
  • Lawrence of Arabia Fellowship, Princeton University (2021–22)
  • Mossavar-Rahmani Graduate Language Study Award, Princeton University (2020)
  • Language Study Award, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS), Princeton University (2020)

Contact

  • Email: bilal.khadim@bnu.edu.pk
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