Works in Progress:

Philosophy/Religious Thought

Reasoning Beyond Rationalism: Art & Intuition in Négritude Thought

Du Bois and Fanon: Dialectics on the Notion of a “Black Soul”

A Black Internationalist Political Islam: Malcolm X’s Attempt at a Third-Way

Against the Current: The NOI Between American and Sunni Mainstreams

Muḥammad ʿAbduh and the Democratization of Ijtihād: A Case for Modernism Through Uṣūl al-Fiqh

West Africa

“Almost as Muslim as the Arabs”: Colonial Racism in West Africa and the Invention of Islam Noir

Literature

Bread, Breathing-Spells, and Poetry: The Black Renaissance and its Contemporaries

From the Belle of Amherst to the Sufi of New England: Emily Dickinson & the Arabic-Speaking World