I am a scholar of religion, capital, and multibeing relations, and my work interrogates “Islamic” and “ethical” financial technologies, while exploring relationalities based on care and solidarity.

My first book project, “The Trial of Wealth: Capitalism and American Islam,” examines the innovation of philanthropy and finance among Muslim communities in the United States. Bringing religion and capital into conversation with epistemologies of relationality, my monograph aims to contribute to not only scholarly work at the intersection of religion, economy, and technology but also the search to imagine and implement alternative relationalities amidst widely criticized products and systems within and beyond Muslim communities.

My second book project explores how seeds and water transform soil, soul, and community amid extractive economies and technological expansion in American Muslim contexts.

My research has been supported by grants and awards from the Social Science Research Council, Lake Institute on Faith and Giving, and Center for Islam in the Contemporary World, among others.

    • “Navigating Uses of Muslim Technologies in Technocapitalist Systems,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Forthcoming.

    • “Authority and the Geographies of U.S. Muslim Economies,” The Muslim World (2026) https://doi.org/10.1111/muwo.70029.

    • “Economies of Survival and the Nation of Islam,” Religion Compass 19, no. 7 (July 2025).

    • “Editor’s Introduction on Lucia Hulsether's Capitalist Humanitarianism,” Symposium: Lucia Hulsether's Capitalist Humanitarianism, in Religious Studies Review 50, no. 3 (September 2024) (with Matthew Harris).

    • “On Solidarity and Capitalism,” Symposium: Lucia Hulsether's Capitalist Humanitarianism, in Religious Studies Review 50, no. 3 (September 2024).

    • Review of The Women’s Mosque of America: Authority and Community in US Islam, Tazeen Ali (NYU Press). Maydan, (November 16, 2023).

    • “An Automated Language of Virtue Ethics in Islamic Finance,” Maydan (October 31, 2023).

    • “Islamic Philanthropy in the United States” in The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, Oxford University Press (February 22, 2023).

    • “Abolition and the Stock Market,” The Immanent Frame (March 4, 2022).

    • “An ‘Otherwise’ Philanthropy,” Insights (February 7, 2022).

    • Review of Muslim Environmentalisms: Religious and Social Foundations, Anna M. Gade (Columbia University Press, 2019). Journal of Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society 4, no. 1 (May 2020).

    • “Translating Muslim Giving into Social Entrepreneurship,” The Immanent Frame (August 21, 2019).