Ali is broadly interested in Islamic intellectual history. His current project is concerned with biographical/hagiographical literature in premodern Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish, especially as technologies in the service and constitutive of an Islamic aesthetics and emotional habitus.
This graduate student is available to deliver lectures to your K-12 classroom at no charge. All requests MUST be booked through the Middle East Center Speaker's Bureau.
Education
MA, Arabic Literary History, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania
BA, Philosophy and Near Eastern Intellectual History, City University of New York (CUNY) Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies