Qualifications

BA History and BASc Electrical Engineering (University of British Columbia, 2013); MA Islamic Philosophy (Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, 2017); MA Islamic Philosophy (Harvard University, 2018); PhD in Philosophy (Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, 2024).

Academic background

I currently hold a Walter Benjamin Fellowship awarded by the DFG (Germany). Previously, I was a doctoral candidate and research assistant at the LMU in Munich.

Research interests

My areas of specialization are metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language, especially as they pertain to the history of Arabic philosophy. I am also interested in contemporary analytic metaphysics and epistemology. My current research project applies contemporary knowledge-first approaches to epistemology to improve our understanding of Ash'ari kalam epistemology. At the same time, I am working towards publishing my doctoral dissertation entitled 'The Problem of Nonexistence in Islamic Philosophy' as a monograph.

Featured publications

1. 'God and Impossibility: A Classical Ash'ari Perspective' in Contradiction and the Absolute, eds. G. Priest and B. Zolghadr, 311-346 (2025). 
2. 'The Demarcation Problem in Islamic Philosophy.' Hikma: Journal of Islamic Theology and Education: Vol. 16 (1), 57-111 (2025). 
3. 'Analogical Arguments in the Kalam Tradition: al-Juwayni and Beyond.' METHODOS, 22, (2022). 
4. 'Typologies of Scepticism in the Philosophical Tradition of Kalam'. Theoria 88(1), 13-48 (Feb. 2022).