Publications
Peer-Reviewed Publications
“Aural Epistemology: Hearing and Listening in the Text of the Qur’an,” Body and Religion 3, number 1, (2019): 71-93. https://doi.org/10.1558/bar.16810
“Feeling the Words: Sayyid Qutb’s Affective Engagement with the Qurʾan in Al-Taswir al-Fanni fi al-Qurʾan,” Religion Compass 13, issue 10 (October 2019).
https://doi.org/10.1111/rec3.12338
“Textual and Paratextual Meaning in the Recited Qur’an: Analysis of a Performance of Surat al-Furqan by Sheikh Mishary bin Rashid al-Afasy.” Qur’anic Studies Today, edited by Angelika Neuwirth and Michael Sells. New York: Routledge, 2016, 2016.
Contributions to Edited Volumes, Handbooks, Roundtables, and Encyclopedias
Forthcoming: “Qur’an Recital,” in The Routledge Handbook of Islamic Ritual and Practice, edited by Oliver Leaman. Under Contract.
Forthcoming: “Mahmoud Khalil al-Husary,” in The Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an, edited by Johanna Pink. Under contract.
Forthcoming: “Reading/Recitation/Memorization,” in The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics, edited by William Schweiker. Accepted for publication and in press.
“Response to Thesis 16,” “Religion” in Theory and Practice: Demystifying the Field for Burgeoning Academics, edited by Russel McCutcheon. Sheffield, UK: Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2018.
“The Experience of the Recited Qur’an.” Invited contribution for “Bringing Sound into Middle East Studies,” a roundtable organized by Carole Woodall and Andrea Stanton. International Journal of Middle East Studies 48, issue 01 (February 2016): 124–128.
Edited Works
Guest editor, Body and Religion 3, number 1 (2019). Special Issue on the Qur’an and affect.
Syndicate Symposium on Karen Bauer’s Gender Hierarchy in the Qur’an. Syndicate Network, 2019. Link.
Reviews and Academic Blog Posts
Forthcoming: Review of The Qur’an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage, by Angelika Neuwirth, translated by Samuel Wilder. The Journal of Religion.
Forthcoming: Review of Muslim Environmentalisms: Religious and Social Foundations, by Anna Gade. American Journal of Islam and Society.
Review of Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmosphere in an Indian Ocean World, by Patrick Eisenlohr. Reading Religion, May 18, 2019. Link.
Review of Singing God’s Words: The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism, by Jeffrey A. Summit. Musica Judaica Online Reviews, March 31, 2019. Link.
Review of Gender Hierarchy in the Qur’ān: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses, by Karen Bauer. Reading Religion, April 6, 2017. Link.
Review of The Logic of Law Making in Islam: Women and Prayer in the Legal Tradition, by Behnam Sadeghi. The Journal of Religion 97, no. 1, January 2017, 142–143.
Review of Qur’an in Conversation, by Michael Birkel. The Journal of Religion 96, no. 4, October 2016, 550–551.
Review of God Is Beautiful: The Aesthetic Experience of the Quran, by Navid Kermani, translated by Tony Crawford. Review of Qur’anic Research 2, no. 3, 2016,
Review of Prayer in Islamic Thought and Practice, by Marion Holmes Katz. The Journal of Religion 96, no. 1, January 2016, 144–145.
“Academe as Labor,” The Craft of Teaching in the Academic Study of Religion, The Official Blog of the University of Chicago Divinity School’s Craft of Teaching Program, April 20, 2016. Link.
“The Balancing Act of Major Design,” The Craft of Teaching in the Academic Study of Religion, The Official Blog of the University of Chicago Divinity School’s Craft of Teaching Program, March 14, 2016. Link.
“Teaching Religion Beyond Texts,” The Craft of Teaching in the Academic Study of Religion, The Official Blog of the University of Chicago Divinity School’s Craft of Teaching Program, November 30, 2015. Link.
“Understanding Meaning in the Sound of the Recited Qur’an,” International Qur’anic Studies Association Blog, April 15, 2013. Link.
“Believing, Belonging, and Laughing in Little Mosque on the Prairie,” Sightings, March 15, 2012. Link.
