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Publications 

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    Peer-Reviewed Articles

  • “The Sun Shining in a Mirror: Poetic Knowing in ʿIrāqī’s Lamaʿāt.” Sophia 65 (2026): 567–597. Read article

  • “Love, Longing, Ecstasy, and Self-Annihilation in God: Affective States in the ʿUshshāq-nāma.” Journal of Sufi Studies 14 (2025): 155–174. Read article

   Public-Facing Scholarship

  • “Madness and a Rose.” Delos: A Journal of Translation and World Literature, Indo-Persian special issue. Forthcoming.

  • “The Inventive Amir Khusro and His Prescient Vernacular.” Dunya Digital, January 21, 2025. Read article

     Book Reviews

  • Review of Mohammed Rustom, Inrushes of the Heart: The Sufi Philosophy of ʿAyn al-Quḍāt. Religious Studies Review 51, no. 3 (2025): 842–843. Read review

  • Review of Omid Safi, Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition. Reading Religion, American Academy of Religion, March 19, 2019. Read review

    Research Contributions

  • Urdu Translator and Field Consultant, “Value Predicate Analysis: A Language-Based Tool for Diagnosing Behavioral Tendencies of Religious or Value-Based Groups in Regions of Conflict.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (2018). Read article

  • Contributed research cited by The New York Times in coverage of U.S. intelligence and Iran, February 28, 2026. Read article

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Conferences​

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  • “Traversing the Rivers of Knowledge: Amīr Khusraw and the Poetics of Knowing in South Asian Sufism.” Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin–Madison (2026). Panelist, “Philosophy, Poetics, and Paths of Knowing in Indo-Persian Sufism.”

  • “Indo-Persian Poetics and the Hermeneutics of Ambiguity.” AAS-in-Asia Conference, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan (2026). Panelist, “Beyond the Center and the Periphery: Research on Islam in South Asia.”

  • “Islam and AI: Challenges and Opportunities.” 54th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, University of Cincinnati (2025). Panel Discussant and Chair, “Authority, Values, and Biases.”

  •  “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).

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Invited Talks and Panels​

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  • “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).

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Translations

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  • 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). 

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