Ali Altaf Mian Assistant Professor of Religion and the Izzat Hasan Sheikh Fellow in Islamic Studies at the University of Florida. His research focuses on Islam in South Asia, Sufism, Islamic law and ethics, method and theory in the study of religion, gender and sexuality in contemporary Islam, religion and colonialism, and religion and psychoanalysis. He is currently preparing two manuscripts: Muslims in South Asia (contracted with Edinburgh University Press) and Surviving Modernity: Ashraf ‘Ali Thanvi and the Genres of Muslim World-Making in Colonial India. Mian also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (since 2017). His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in Islamic Law and Society, History of Religions, ReOrient, Religion Compass, Islamic Studies, Journal of Shi‘a Islamic Studies, and the Journal of Islamic Studies (Oxford). His peer-reviewed articles, review essays, book reviews, and blogs can be accessed on his academia.edu page.

Ali Altaf Mian onMRB

An Androcentric Discipline? The Gender Troubles of Qur’anic Exegesis. On Karen Bauer’s Gender Hierarchy in the Qur’an.