Currently

Associate Chaplain of the University for the Muslim Community
Brown University • Providence, RI

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2020

PhD (honors), University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations • Islamic Thought
Major field: Islamic Law | Minor field: Modern Middle Eastern History
Dissertation Title: “Revaluing the Price of Blood: Homicide in Islamic Jurisprudence and Ottoman Law” (Committee Chair: Ahmed El Shamsy | Defended June 2019)

2017

Master of Legal Studies (MLS), University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, IL

2014

MA, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Islamic Thought, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Thesis Title: “Precedent in the Text: Change and Continuity in the Hanafi Legal Tradition”

2011

Islamic ʿAlimiyyah (Seminary Degree), Institute of Islamic Education, Elgin, IL
Traditional diplomas in Tajwid (Quranic Recitation) and Hifz al-Qurʾan (Memorization of Quran), and Hadith

2005

BA, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Economics, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

2021

“Fetvas on Non-Muslims,” with Cornell H. Fleischer. In The Ottoman World: A Cultural History Reader, 1450–1700, edited by Hakan T. Karateke and Helga Anetshofer, 134–43. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

2021

“Preserving Public Health.” In The Ottoman World: A Cultural History Reader, 1450–1700, edited by Hakan T. Karateke and Helga Anetshofer, 210–19. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

2017

“The Classical Period: Scripture, Origins and Early Development,” with Mariam Sheibani and Ahmed El Shamsy. In The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law, edited by Anver M. Emon and Rumee Ahmed, 403–36. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. Online edition available at www.oxfordhandbooks.com.

Accepted

“Ritual Slaughter.” In The Encyclopedia of Islamic Bioethics, edited by Ayman Shabana. New York: Oxford University Press.

2020

Faiz Ahmed, Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017). In Law and History Review 38, no. 4 (2020).

2018

Guy Burak, The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Ḥanafī School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015). In Journal of Near Eastern Studies 77, no. 2 (2018): 333–35.

2006

Muhammad Taqi Usmani, The Islamic Laws of Animal Slaughter: A Discussion on the Islamic Laws for Slaughtering Animals and a Survey of Modern-Day Slaughtering Methods (Santa Barbara, CA: White Thread Press, 2006). Original: Aḥkām al-dhabāʾiḥ wa al-luḥūm al-mustawrada (1997).

2017–18

Research Fellow. Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law & Civilization. Yale Law School.

2017

Arnaldo Momigliano Dissertation Research Travel Grant. University of Chicago.

2014

Ayverdi Prize for Best Ottoman Translation, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association.

2014

American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) Turkish Language Summer Fellowship for Study of Advanced Turkish at Boğaziçi University.

2013

Foreign Language & Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Fellowship.

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Ottoman-era painting of the valley of Mecca, with the Kaaba in the center surrounded by the Holy Mosque and houses, and some pilgrimage sites are in the left distance. The Turkish legend at the bottom (corresponding to red numerals in the picture) includes the parts of the sanctuary and a number of landmarks. The bold lettering in the middle reads of the legend “The Exalted Kaaba.” Notice also the globe in the distance putting Mecca at the focal point and the northern hemisphere down under. Dated 9 Jumada I 981 (September 5, 1573) and signed by one Mehmed Baba, “a servant of the Family of the Cloak,” a reference to the family of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ.