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Mukhtar Hussain Ali

Assistant Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Religion
Assistant Professor, Center for African Studies
Assistant Professor, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Recent Publications

Ali, M. H. (2023). On Self-Knowledge, Divine Trial, and Discipleship. In M. U. Faruque, & M. Rustom (Eds.), From the Divine to the Human: Contemporary Islamic Thinkers on Evil, Suffering, and the Global Pandemic (pp. 29-43). (Routledge Studies in Islamic Philosophy). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003371670-4

Ali, M. H. (2023). Translating Islamic Metaphysical Texts: Some Reflections on Knowledge Transmission: Some Reflections on Knowledge Transmission. In M. Rustom (Ed.), Islamic History and Civilization: Texts and Studies in Honor of William C. Chittick and Sachiko Murata (pp. 429-440). (Islamic History and Civilization; Vol. 202). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004529038_022

Ali, M. H. (2021). Philosophical Sufism: An Introduction to the School of Ibn al-ʿArabī. (Routledge Studies in Islamic Philosophy). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003181040

Ali, M. H. (2021). Review: A. Khalil's Repentance and the Return to God: Tawba in Early Sufism. Journal of Sufi Studies, 9(2), 247-253. https://doi.org/10.1163/22105956-12341323

Ali, M. H. (2020). Futuwwa as the Noblest Character Traits (Makārim al-Akhlāq) in Anṣārī’s Manāzil al-Sāʾirīn with al-Kāshānī’s Commentary. Journal of Islamic Ethics, 4(1-2), 8-24. https://doi.org/10.1163/24685542-12340043

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