I am a philosophy professor currently teaching in the Qatar University Humanities Department, and received my PhD in philosophy from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

My research is in the area of Islamic philosophy, metaphysics, and comparative moral epistemology, and coalesces in two distinct yet related projects, which I have named ‘Coherence of the Incoherence,’ and ‘Values without Borders.’

‘Coherence of the Incoherence’ focuses on the famous debate between Ibn Sina, Al-Ghazali, and Ibn Rushd, as recorded in Ghazali’s Incoherence of the Philosophers and Ibn Rushd’s Incoherence of the Incoherence. The project culminates in my recent book, Coherence of the Incoherence: Between Al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd on Nature and the Cosmos (2023, Gorgias Press), and also includes several academic papers and book chapters on a range of related topics in the intersection of Islamic philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of religion.

‘Values without Borders’ aims at discovering a grounded moral epistemology, sustainable in the face of the increasing cultural and historical diversity that confronts the thinking human being (and in particular the thinking Muslim) in the contemporary world. This project includes analyses of the moral epistemologies of key Muslim thinkers, exploratory comparisons between the axiological paradigms and moral epistemologies of various ethical traditions, and theoretical inquiries into whether and how such comparisons might be philosophically productive in the effort to better understand how we ought to live in today’s world.