Teaching
Courses
Orthodoxy, Heresy, and Apostasy in Islam (Fall 2023, First Year Seminar)
The Qurʾān As Literature (Spring 2023, Spring 2024)
Islam: Authors and Texts (Fall 2022, Fall 2024)
Beginnings (Fall 2020, First Year Seminar)
Orthodoxy and Heresy in Islam (Spring 2020, Fall 2021)
Muslim Reformers of the 19th and 20th Centuries (Spring 2018)
Islamic Intellectual Tradition: The Classics (Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019)
The Qurʾān and its Controversies (Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Fall 2023)
Discovering Islam: Introduction to Islamic Traditions (Spring 2017)
Introduction to Islamic Traditions (Spring 2015)
The Islamic Mystical Tradition (Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015)
Death and Dying in Islam (Fall 2014, First Year Seminar)
Knowledge Triumphant in Classical Islam (Fall 2014)
The Nature of Religion (Spring 2014)
What is Religion, Anyway? Theories and Methods in Religious Studies (Spring 2019)
Introduction to Religion (Fall 2009, Fall 2010, Fall 2012, Fall 2013, Fall 2016, Fall 2017)
Muḥammad and the Qurʾān (Spring 2011, Spring 2013)
Muḥammad (Spring 2009, Spring 2010)
Debating Muslims (Fall 2010, Fall 2012, Fall 2013)
Islamic Intellectual Tradition (Fall 2009, Fall 2016)
Islamic Theology and Philosophy (Fall 2008)
Islamic Religious Tradition (Fall 2008)
Supervised Special Topics
Arabic Study in Theology (Fall 2023)
Medieval Islamic Medicine (Spring 2022)
Marriage in Islam (Spring 2023)
The Qur'an and History (Spring 2019)
Qur'anic Apocalypse (Fall 2017)
Readings in Arabic Philosophy (in classical Arabic) (Spring 2017)
Qur'anic Themes (Fall 2014, Spring 2018)
Islamic Law (Fall 2010)
Islam in North America (Spring 2010)
Islamic Mystical Tradition (Spring 2009)
Supervised Undergraduate Theses
Aqiil Gopee, “The Qur’ān and Scriptural World-Building,” (Spring 2020), magna cum laude (awarded the Moseley Prize for scholarship in the study of religion)
Caroline Medina, “Ibn Arabi and the Unity of Being: A Study of wujūd and Coinciding Opposites in Sufi Metaphysical Thought” (Spring 2012), magna cum laude (awarded the Moseley Prize for scholarship in the study of religion)
Jonathan Highland, “Redefining Apostasy: The Spectrum of TakfīrīMovements in the 20thCentury” (Spring 2018/Fall 2018), magna cum laude (awarded the Moseley Prize for scholarship in the study of religion)