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.

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 Department of Political Science & South Asia Center, University of Texas at Austin (Scheduled for November 5, 2026)

Bengal Muslim Thought in the Global Twentieth Century,” Organized by 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 South Asia Center & Center for Cultural Studies, UCSC, October 10, 2024.

Bangladesh: Spirit, State & ShariaThe 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.