Muslim Theology and Ethics
“A Case for Thinking and Living Theologically: Faith, Imagination, and Malcolm X,” Ḥāshiya, vol. 1 (2025), 106-117. Link Download
“The Work of Constructive Muslim Thought and Scholarship,” Muslim World, vol. 115, no. 1 (Winter 2025), 3-4. Download
“Constructive Muslim Theology as Disruption, Invitation, and Ethical Intervention,” Muslim World, vol. 115, no. 1 (Winter 2025), 8-12. Download
“The Difference Within Us: Our Humanity and Inhumanity,” Symposium on “The Muslim Difference”, Contending Modernities, University of Notre Dame (February 26, 2025). https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/difference-within-us/
“Telling A Story of Death and Its Disclosures,” Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion, and the Public Sphere, Social Science Research Council, Forum on “Asian American Religions: Everywhere, All At Once” (April 5, 2023). https://tif.ssrc.org/2023/04/05/telling-a-story-of-death-and-its-disclosures/
“Concerning Family, Theology, and Qur’anic Exegesis: A Response to Celene Ibrahim’s Women and Gender in the Qur’an,” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, vol. 37, no. 2 (Fall 2021), 197-200. Pre-Print Download
“One Life in Miami: On the Disfiguring Portrayal of Malcolm X,” Medium (1 February 2021), https://alakhira.medium.com/one-life-in-miami-dacf10909689.
“A Cartography of Modern Muslim Theology: Mapping the Interventions and Trajectories of an Academic Muslim Theological Discourse,” TheMaydan (20 September 2018), https://themaydan.com/2018/09/cartography-modern-muslim-theology-mapping-interventions-trajectories-academic-muslim-theological-discourse/.
“Could the Kaaba Represent Tradition?,” Renovatio: The Journal of Zaytuna College (6 February 2018), https://renovatio.zaytuna.edu/article/could-the-kaaba-represent-tradition.
“Expanding the Conversation on Hospitality in Islam,” Contending Modernities (26 May 2017), https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/expanding-hospitality-islam/.
“Modern Scripturalism and Emergent Theological Trajectories: Moving Beyond the Qur’an as Text,” Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies, vol. 2 no. 1 (November 2016), pp. 61-79. Link (Pre-Print Download)
Islamic Studies
“Reframing How We Behold the Muslim American Landscape: Looking Elsewhere and In-Between,” Muslim World (2025) Link (Download)
Book Review: “Review of Recent Works in Matured Theology,” Book Reviews of Ramon Harvey, “Transcendent God, Maturidi Theology” and Lejla Demiri, Philip Dorroll, and Dale J. Correa, eds., “Mātūrīdī Theology: A Bilingual Reader,” American Journal of Islam and Society, vol. 40, nos. 1-2 (2023), pp. 138-142 Link (Download)
“Exegetes of Nishapur: A Preliminary Survey of Qur’anic Works by Ibn Ḥabīb, Ibn Fūrak, and ʿAbd al-Qāhir al-Baghdādī,” Journal of Qur’anic Studies, vol. 20 no. 2 (2018), 47-73. Link (Pre-Print Download) Arabic Translation, Mustafa al-Fekey (Download)
“The Textual Legacy of Abū l-Qāsim al-Qušayrī: A Bibliographic Record,” co-authored with Francesco Chiabotti, Arabica, vol. 61 no. 3-4 (2014), pp. 339-395. Link (Download)
“Al-Tafsīr al-kabīr: An Investigation of al-Qushayrī’s Major Qur’an Commentary,” Journal of Sufi Studies vol. 2 no. 1 (2013), pp. 17-45. Link (Download)
“Al-Qushayrī and His Legacy,” co-authored with Matthew Ingalls, Journal of Sufi Studies vol. 2 no. 1 (2013), pp. 1-6. Link (Download)
“Exegesis of the Ḥurūf al-Muqaṭṭaʿa: Polyvalency in Sunnī Traditions of Qur’anic Interpretation”, Journal of Qur’anic Studies vol. 14 no. 2 (October 2012), pp. 1-28. Link (Download)
“Hermeneutics as Translation: As Assessment of Islamic Translation Trends in America,” Muslim World, vol. 98, no. 4 (October 2008), pp. 485-501. Link
Interreligious Engagement
“Exploring the Depths and Boundaries of Fraternity: A Muslim Reading of Fratelli Tutti,” Studies in Interreligious Dialogue vol. 32, no. 1 (2022), 21-31. Link Download
“Faith-Rooted Thinking on Matters of Public Concern: A Muslim Response to William L. Sachs,” Anglican Theological Review, vol. 102, no. 2 (2020), pp. 283-288. Link Download
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