Hasan Hameed is a historian and scholar of religion. Working with the rich literatures of the Islamic world in Arabic, Persian, and Urdu, he studies how texts travel across regions and empires and shape ethical selves and communities. Currently, he is a PhD candidate in History and Islamic Studies at Princeton University. He holds a Masters in History from Princeton and another Masters from the University of Oxford. He has also spent many years studying with scholars in Pakistan.

Hasan's work has been supported by numerous external and internal grants, awarded by such institutions as The American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS), the University Center of Human Values and the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton. His research has been published widely. His 2024 article in Modern Intellectual History argues that a particular vision of Islamic democracy underlay the demand for Pakistan in late colonial India. In an article for Startwords, Hasan used GIS mapping to plot Gulistan manuscripts and commentaries, demonstrating the surprising reach of Persian literacy in early modern South Asia. His research is featured in many conferences such as The American Historical Association, the American Academy of Religion, and The Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics.

Hasan’s teaching has extended over three continents; from humid classrooms in working-class neighborhoods of Karachi to the air-conditioned seminar rooms of Princeton. As an instructor of record or assistant in instruction, he has taught surveys on the Qur'an, Islamic Poetry, and European intellectual history. He has also provided pastoral support to students through his roles as a Residential Graduate Student (RGS) at Princeton and as a mentor to the Muslim Student Association (MSA). Please contact him for a full statement of teaching philosophy; refer to the teaching page for some of his previous experience.

Hasan also has a strong commitment to public scholarship outside of formal teaching. He has written on the “decline” of Islamic philosophy after al-Ghazali for The Marginalia Review of Books, on the ethics of visiting the sick for The Daily Princetonian, and onwards the everyday challenges of Muslim students for MuslimMatters.org and The Nassau Weekly. As a fellow for the Center of Culture, Society and Religion (CCSR) at Princeton, he organised a public conversation on Islam and race and helped produce a youtube post on simple believers in the medieval Christian world. He has also lectured extensively at different Muslim Students Associations (MSAs), mosques, and community centres across the US, the UK and Pakistan. The service page has more on his public engagements.