University of Exeter

Faculty Member, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies

Associate Professor of Islamic Intellectual History

About

Broadly speaking, I work on Islamic intellectual history, specialising in the Safavid-Mughal period. My particular interests which grew from my PhD at Cambridge on the philosophy of Mullā Ṣadrā Shīrāzī (d. c. 1635) lie in post-Avicennan philosophical, theological and mystical traditions. My second main area of interest is Qurʾanic exegesis and textual hermeneutics.
I am currently completing two monographs: an introduction to Mīr Dāmād and his thought for Oneworld, and a reader on Mullā Ṣadrā for Edinburgh University Press. Alongside that, I continue writing a series of articles on the noetics of Mullā Ṣadrā and the intellectual history of Islam in India.
My next major projects will be an intellectual history of apophasis in Islamic thought, and a study of the Islamic philosophical traditions in India, 1500-1900. 


I also run a philosophy blog that has my various musings on philosophy both Islamic and otherwise as well as notes on manuscript research and related critical editions. The blog entitled Hikmat is mullasadra.blogspot.com

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