Publications

“Madness and a Rose.” In Indo Persian Volume: Delos Journal. Co-Authored with Prashant Keshavmurthy and Jane Mikkelson (forthcoming)
Review of Inrushes of the Heart: The Sufi Philosophy of ‘Ayn al-Qudat by Muhammad Rustom. Religious Studies Review.
“Love, Longing, and Desire: Reconceptualizing Fanāʾ as Ecstasy in Fakhr al-DīnʿIrāqī’s Poetry.” Journal of Sufi Studies (forthcoming 2025)
Review of Omid Safi, Radical Love. Reading Religion: American Academy of Religion (2019)
Translator and Field Consultant for “Value Predicate Analysis: A Language-Based Tool for Diagnosing Behavioral Tendencies of Religious or Value-Based Groups in Regions of Conflict.” Journal of Scientific Study of Religion (2018)

“The Poetics of Love: Fakhr al-Din ‘Iraqi’s Vision of Unity and Transformation.” Presents and Futures of Islamic Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley (2025).
“Responding to Crisis: Reparative Reasoning in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.” Boston College (2025).
“South Asian Islamicate Futures and Pasts: Sources and Possibilities for Emic Literary Theory and Criticism.” American Academy of Religion (2024).
“Roundtable Discussion of Mohammed Rustom’s Inrushes of the Heart: The Sufi Philosophy of ʿAyn al-Quḍāt.” American Academy of Religion (2024).
“The Logic of the Birds: Sufi Poetry and Poetics.” American Academy of Religion (2023).
“How Lyric Moves: Exploring the Texture of ʿIrāqī’s Neoplatonic Thought.” American Academy of Religion (2022).
“Whose Image Is It?: Exploring the Metaphor of Mirror in the Lama’āt.” Annual Conference on South Asia (2022).
“Transcending Categories: Love, the Qur’ān, and Nature in ʿIrāqī’s Lama‘āt.” American Academy of Religion (2021).
“Subverting Binaries and Stylistic Conventions: A Study of Fakhruddin ʿIrāqī’s Poetry.” Annual Conference on South Asia (2021).
“Love, Longing, and Self-Annihilation in God: Reconceptualizing Fanāʾ as Ecstasy in the ʿUshshāq-nāmāh.” Annual Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (2021).

“Scriptural Reasoning.” William and Mary (2024).
“In the Garden of Khusraw’s Words.” Hast-o-Neest Institute (2023).
“Diving into the Ocean of Speech: Amir Khusraw’s Dībāchāh-i Divān-i Ghurrat al-Kamāl.” Hast-o-Neest Institute (2021).
“Exploring the Trope of Yusuf and Zulaikha through Sufi Hermeneutics.” Colgate University (2019).
“Through the Music of Rumi’s Reed: Authority and Self-Transformation in Rumi’s Mathnavi.” University of Virginia (2019).

Awards and Fellowships

University-Wide Graduate Teaching Award Finalist. University of Virginia (2022).
American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Research Fellowship Award (2022).
Dean Dissertation Completion Fellowship. University of Virginia (2022).
Religion, Race, and Democracy Lab Grant. Documentary: How Lyric Moves and Morphs: Qawwali Music in Pakistan. (2021).
American Institute of Pakistan Studies Short-Term Research Grant (2021).
Center for Global Innovation and Inquiry Graduate Global Research Grant. University of Virginia (2021).
Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures Fellowship (IHGC). (2020).
Asian Cosmopolitanisms Grant. (2020).
Research Grant. Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (2020).
Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (AHSS) Research Grant. University of Virginia (2020).
American Institute of Pakistan Studies Travel Grant (AIPS) (2020).
Peter Murphy Scholarship: Getaway to Write (2019).
American Council Award, Eurasian Regional Language Program (2018).
Fulbright Fellowship. Master’s program, University of Virginia (2015–2017).

Creative Writings

The Lumina Journal, “sunkissed.”

Months to Years, “wintering.”

The Black Fork Review, “sun-blue dreams.”

Ignatian Literary Magazine, “fireflies.”

Poetry South, “woven in silken sky.”

The Elevation Review, “gravelly point”.

Quillkeepers Press, “solace.”

Streetlight Magazine, “a cricket’s delight.”

Wingless Dreamer, “fireflies,” and “joy.”

Tiger Moth Review, “abyad.”

The Roadrunner Review, “woven in silken sky.”

Rigorous Magazine, “twilight.”

The Ice Colony and Active Muse, “wild skies.”

Tareekh-i Adab-i Urdu, “Ye Un Dino Ki Baat Hai.”

Audio Times, “Barf jo kayi sadion se.”

Projects

Podcast on Sufi Poetry: The Logic of the Birds

Video (Translation): Shaykh Ayaz's Poem 'Baanh Tehni Si'

Translations

I am currently working on a complete English translation of Amīr Khusraw's Dibāchāh-i Dīvān-i Ghurrat al-kamāl (Preface to The Full Moon of Perfection).