Works
Necessity and Witness: Studies in the Philosophy of Karbalā
Plays
Marsiya: A one-night chamber play in which Lucknow's two rival master elegists are summoned to the same mourning room after the annexation, and forty years of literary faction are asked to produce a single poem for a dead boy. (Editions, 2026)
Now Serving: An office play set in an eleven-hundred-year-old bureau that has tended one lamp and one empty chair since the occultation began, where an audit, a waiting room, and a man with a ticket test whether an institution still remembers what it was built to be a door to. (Editions, 2026)
Trays: A two-room drama seven centuries wide, in which a kitchen woman's deposition on the death of Suhrawardī in the citadel of Aleppo reaches, in a wartime Istanbul study, the reader it was always addressed to. (Editions, 2026)
Ni Kan: A single-night interrogation drama in which a court interpreter discovers he is the last speaker of a dead language, and translation becomes a question of evidence, mercy, and how a legend is made from one altered word. (Editions, 2025)
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, 2024)
No Associated Profile: A farce in which one ambiguous word in an eight-hundred-year-old endowment deed sets rival claimants, lawyers, genealogists, and a litigation financier loose on a single afternoon, while the founder's actual intent waits at the bottom of the list. (Editions, 2022)
Forthcoming
After the Caravan (in progress): A Partition novel about two milk-brothers, one physician’s buried testimony, and a day-book kept in Delhi against a man’s return from the Andamans, set across the year the trains acquired their reputation. (Roughly 170,000 words, in revision)
Jinn, Jazz, and Jalaladdin: a philosophical novel on grief, read through neuroscience, jazz, and Islamic metaphysical inheritance
The Book of Someone Else’s God: a philosophical and theological autobiography of inherited belief
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: a satirical universe rendered in Urdu afsanas, where the "paad" stands for hollow rhetoric and the gap between performance and presence, running through politics, academia, religion, and media.
