Indiana University
Instructor of Record
- Muslim Political Thought
- Arab Culture
- Elementary Arabic I and II
Teaching and pedagogy
Texts in context, ideas in motion
I teach classical sources alongside modern political theory and the cross-cultural study of religion, helping students move between close reading, historical context, and present-day questions.
Teaching philosophy
Reading carefully across traditions
My courses treat the classroom as a place for rigorous interpretation and informed comparison. Students encounter Qurʾanic passages, jurisprudential arguments, historical narratives, and political theory as situated texts: each speaks from a particular intellectual world while inviting questions that remain urgent.
I scaffold difficult primary sources through vocabulary, guided reading, and structured discussion. In courses that bring Islamic traditions into conversation with modern statecraft or comparative religion, students learn to distinguish description from evaluation, attend to internal diversity, and make claims grounded in evidence.
My experience with university students and adult community learners has shaped a pedagogy that combines high expectations with clear intellectual pathways.
Courses taught
Teaching experience
al-Azhar University, Cairo
Designed and taught
- World Religions
- Muslim Political Thought
- Islamic Law of Muslim Minorities
- Methods and Approaches to the Study of Religion in Western Academia
- History of Muslim and Non-Muslim Relations
Islamic Center of Bloomington
Community and public education
- Qurʾanic Studies
- Islamic Law
- Readings in Classical Islamic Texts
- Islamic Legal Theory
- History of Early Islam I and II
Courses prepared to teach