Scholarship and Biography
I am an Assistant Professor of Islamic Thought at the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. I received her PhD in Islamic Thought from the University of Chicago and postdoctoral training at Harvard Law School. My research and teaching focus on Islamic intellectual, religious, and social history, particularly the theory and practice of Islamic law, ethics, and Sufism.
Prior to joining Brandeis University, I taught at The University of Toronto, Harvard Divinity School, the University of Chicago. I also served as Associate Academic Director and Head of Research at Cambridge Muslim College. Since 2018, I have served as Research Editor for the Islamic Law Blog based at Harvard Law School.
My forthcoming book, Islamic Legal Philosophy: Ibn ʿAbd al-Salām and the Ethical Turn in Medieval Islamic Law, examines how Muslim jurists from the eleventh to fourteenth centuries addressed salient questions of legal philosophy and ethics. My other publications and ongoing research projects investigate the construction of early Islamic law, classical doctrines of Muslim family law, and Islamic ethics and traditions of spirituality.