Published
Necessity and Witness: Studies in the Philosophy of Karbalā (Brill, 2026)
The Making of Imami Kalām: al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā and the Theology of Communal Identity (Brill, 2026)
Presence, Quiddity, and Light: A Study of Suhrawardī’s Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq (Brill, CUNY, 2025)
Sehnsucht: a poetic collection in ten movements tracing longing, illness, and absence through the small textures of ordinary days (2024)
Plays
Raking Light: A dual-timeline drama exploring memory, manuscript culture, and the fragile transmission of sacred knowledge across thirteen centuries. (Editions, 2025)
The Last Coin: A mathematical chamber play where an unpaid debt becomes a meditation on infinity, justice, and the impossibility of ever truly finishing with another person. (Editions, 2025)
Forthcoming
Jinn, Jazz, and Jalaladdin: a philosophical novel on grief, read through neuroscience, jazz, and Islamic metaphysical inheritance (2026)
The Book of Someone Else’s God: a philosophical and theological autobiography of inherited belief (2027)
Ongoing
Chronostatic Inversion: an interdisciplinary framework on time, consciousness, and near-death physiology in conversation with eschatological language
Grief Sequences: a continuing cycle of poems set in ordinary days, clinic corridors, and waiting rooms
Paadon Ka Shehar (City of Farts): a satirical universe rendered in Urdu afsanas, where the “paad” stands for hollow rhetoric and the gap between performance and presence, running through politics, academic, religion, and media
