Academic

Resume in brief:

PhD in Religious Studies, Islamic Studies concentration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018. Dissertation title: "The Science of the Breath in Persianate India." Download Curriculum Vitae here. 

Peer-Reviewed Publications: 

Breathtaking Insights: Indian and Sufi Breath Practices from the Kāmarūpančāšikā to Hazrat Inayat Khan (co-authored with Carl W. Ernst), Richmond, Virginia, Suluk Press. Forthcoming.

“Islam, Yoga, and Meditation.” In Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies, Suzanne Newcombe and Karen O’Brien-Kop (eds). London: Routledge, 212-225. Download PDF here.

“Bodies in Translation: Esoteric Conceptions of the Muslim Body in Early-modern South Asia.” In Subtle Bodies, Spatial Bodies: Transformational Embodiment in Asian Religions, George Pati and Katherine C. Zubko, eds. London: Routledge, 168-186. Download PDF here.

Social Agency and Translating the Qur'an: The Case of Laleh Bakhtiar and 4:34," in Said Faiq, Ovidi Carbonnel, and Ali Almanna (eds), Culguage In/From Translation in Arabic. Sayyab Books Ltd: London, 2014. Pp. 109-126. Download PDF here.

Popular Press:

“Muslims Have Been Here For Centuries,” Boulder Daily Camera, Boulder CO. Sunday, August 4. Print version page B12, online: http://boulderdailycamera.co.newsmemory.com/?publink=1f189a06b.

“Breathing with Others: Science of the Breath in Early-modern South Asia,” The Maydan, December 21, https://www.themaydan.com/2017/12/breathing-others-science-breath-early-modern-south-asia/

Book Reviews:

Manan Ahmed Asif. The Loss of Hindustan: The Invention of India. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020. International Journal of Hindu Studies (in-press).

Shankar Nair. Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia. University of California Press, 2020. Journal of American Academy of Religion (in-press).

Anand Vivek Taneja. Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi. Religious Studies Review 46, No. 2 (June), 246. Download PDF here.

Audrey Truschke. Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India’s Most Controversial King. Religious Studies Review 46, No. 2 (June), 245. Download PDF here.

Maryam D. Ekhtiar. How to Read Islamic Calligraphy. AAR Reading Religion. Review available at http://readingreligion.org/books/how-read-islamic-calligraphy.

Iza R. Hussin. The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State. Religious Studies Review 44, No. 3 (September 2018), 345-345. Download PDF here.

Andreas Görke and Johanna Pink (eds). Tafsīr and Islamic Intellectual History:
Exploring the Boundaries of a Genre. Religious Studies Review 43, No. 1 (March 2017), 71-72. Download PDF here.

Ma’mar Ibn Rāshid (ed. and trans. Sean W. Anthony). The Expeditions: An Early
Biography of Muḥammad. Religious Studies Review 43, No. 1 (March 2017), 72-73. Download PDF here.