Associate Professor

Additional Campus Affiliations

Associate Professor, Religion
Director of Graduate Studies, Religion
Associate Professor, Center for African Studies

Recent Publications

Ali, M. H. (2026). Wisdom as the Sublime Measure: A New Epistemology of Ḥikma. In Islamic History and Civilization (pp. 365-387). (Islamic History and Civilization; Vol. 225). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004749108_018

Ali, M. H. (2025). Education, Reform, and Renewal. In Islamic History and Civilization (pp. 730-743). (Islamic History and Civilization; Vol. 221). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004734951_036

Ali, M. H. (2025). Inscriptions of Wisdom: The Sufism of Ibn al-'Arabī in the Mirror of Jāmī. State University of New York Press.

Ali, M. H. (2024). Mullā Ṣadrā. In G. Tamer (Ed.), Qur'anic Hermeneutics from the 13th to the 19th Century (Vol. 3, pp. 291-303). (De Gruyter Handbook). de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111320083-016

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

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