Research
Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Gandhian Bhasani? Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani on Nonviolence, Violence, and Politics,” The Review of Politics (forthcoming)
“Theorizing the Individual in Anticolonial Muslim Thought,” Political Theory, 54.4 (2026): 577- 601.
“Women’s Rights Consciousness, Agency, and Subjectivity in Rural Bangladesh,” Politics and Religion, 18.4 (2025): 516-534 (Honorable mention, Ted G. Jelen Award (Best Journal Article), APSA Religion and Politics Section, 2026).
“Re-examining the Nexus between Madrassa Education and Politics in Bangladesh,” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 43.4 (2020): 613-631.
“Islam and Modernity in Bangladesh,” Journal of Asian and African Studies 53.6 (2018): 866-879.
Manuscripts in preparation
“Sovereignty Beyond the State: Ethics, Politics, and Democratic Practices in Everyday Life”
“A Genealogy of Ethics in South Asian Muslim Thought”
“The Ideas of Pakistan in Bengal Muslim Thought”
Book Manuscript
Beyond Nationalism and Statism: Recovering Alternative Political Possibilities in Anticolonial Muslim Thought (in preparation)
Book Reviews
Review of The Muslim Secular: Parity and the Politics of India’s Partition, The Review of Politics, 86.4 (2024): 1-4.
Review of Islam and Politics in Bangladesh: The Followers of Ummah, Critical Research on Religion, 9.2 (2021): 229-232
Review of Islam, Ethnicity, and Power Politics: Constructing Pakistan’s National Identity, Journal of Governance, Security & Development, 1.1 (2020): 207-211
Review of Limits of Islamism: Jamaat-e-Islami in Contemporary India and Bangladesh, India Quarterly, 72.2 (2016): 202-204
Public writing
“Thoughts on Desh Unveiled in the Youth’s Revolutionary Songs during the Mass Uprising,” (Bangla), Bonik Barta, October 17, 2024
“Choudhury Rahamat Ali’s ‘Pakistan Declaration’ and Muslim Nationalism,” (Bangla) Silk Root Magazine’s special issue on Choudhury Rahamat Ali’s politics and thought, Bonik Barta, July 18, 2023
“Commentary on Professor Razzaq’s book Political Parties in India,” JGS&D, 1 July 2022.
“Culture of Fear in Bangladesh Politics,” Kutniti: A Perspective on World Politics, July 10, 2015
“Too Used to Violence,” Dhaka Tribune, November 24, 2014
“Veiling for Security in Bangladesh?“Bengal View, 17 February 2018
Invited Talk
“Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhasani on Nonviolence, Violence, and Politics,” organized by the South Asia Center, University of Texas at Austin (scheduled for November 5, 2026)
“Theorizing Violence and Politics in Maulana Bhasani’s Thought and Actions,” HSS Seminar Series, LUMS, Pakistan, October 28, 2026
“Bengal Muslim Thought in the Global Twentieth Century,” organized by the Bengal Institute of History and Ideas, CARASS Auditorium, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, July 14, 2026
“The Mass Uprising in Bangladesh: Youth Mobilization, Political Possibility, and Precarity,” co-organized by the South Asia Center & Center for Cultural Studies, UCSC, October 10, 2024.
“Bangladesh: Spirit, State & Sharia,” The Nepali Outpost (podcast), September 20, 2024.
“Abul Hashim and the Pakistan Movement: Thoughts on Individual, Community, and the State,” Center for Studies in Islamicate Asia, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, December 6, 2022.
“Islamic State in the Making: Bengali Muslims’ Imagination of Pakistan,” Reading Club Trust, Dhaka, August 3, 2022.
“Development Discourse and Its Critics in Bangladesh,” colloquium series, Department of Development Studies, University of Chittagong, July 21, 2022.