Academic Profile
Assoc. Professor in Religious Studies Department, teaching upper level and graduate courses on Islam.
Published: "The Charismatic Community: Shi`ite Identity in Early Islam" as well as articles on Sufism, Shi`ism and Qur'anic studies.
Published: "The Charismatic Community: Shi`ite Identity in Early Islam" as well as articles on Sufism, Shi`ism and Qur'anic studies.
Sample Publications
"The Charismatic Community: Shi`ite Identity in Early Islam" SUNY Press, 2007; “Hierarchies of Knowing in Mulla Sadra’s Commentary on the Usul al-Kafi,” Journal of Islamic Philosophy (forthcoming 2011); “Human Conjecture and Divine Argument: Faith and Truth in the Qur’anic Story of Abraham” in Crisis, Call and Leadership (eds. Peter Ochs and Stacy Johnson), Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009; “‘Guest of the Inmost Heart’: Conceptions of the Divine Beloved among Early Sufi Women.” Journal of Comparative Islamic Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2007.
Scholarly Interests
Current Position
Associate Professor,
George Mason University