BOOKS

SELECTED ARTICLES

  • “Can the Power of Prayer Alone Stop a Pandemic Like the Coronavirus? Even the Prophet Muhammad Thought of Otherwise," Newsweek, March 17, 2020
  • “The Sri Lanka Church Bombings Are the Opposite of What Prophet Muhammad Intended,” Newsweek, April 23, 2019
  • “Notre Dame and Al-Aqsa Fires Give Christians and Muslims a Chance to Work Together to Repair Their Sacred Spaces,” Newsweek, April 16, 2019. *Appeared in Print Edition.”
  • “Young Pakistani Men and Irish Identity – Religion, Race, and Ethnicity in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland,” Sociology 52(4), 2018: 655-670.
  • “Muslims in America: Separating fact from fiction,” Daily Sabah, August 13, 2018
  • “The Racialization of Islam in the United States: Islamophobia, Hate Crimes and ‘Flying While Brown,’”  Religions 8(9), 2017: 1-19.
  • “The Rohingya Are the New Palestinians,” Foreign Policy, September 26, 2017.
  • “Das andere Andalusien,” IslamIQ, September 7, 2017. *Translated into Germany.*
  • “Islam, Race, and Pluralism in the Pakistani Diaspora,” The Islamic Monthly, July 28, 2017.
  • “The Other Al-Andalus – When Muslims and Christians Flourished Side By Side in Sicily,” Huff Post, April 22, 2017.
  • “Pluralism and the Najran Christians: How Prophet Muhammad Went Beyond Tolerance,” Huff Post, February 17, 2017.
  • “Why a Christian Can View Muhammad as a Prophet,” Huff Post, January 26, 2017.
  • “Religious Pluralism and Civic Rights in a ‘Muslim Nation’: An Analysis of Prophet Muhammad’s Covenants with Christians,” Religions 7(15), 2016: 1-21.
  • “Prophet Muhammad’s Covenants with Christians: Pluralism and Civic Rights in the First Islamic State,”Interreligious Insight 14(1), 2016: 42-57.
  • “What does it mean to be ‘Irish’? Perceptions of Irish identity among young Pakistani men,” Diaspora Studies 9(2), 2016: 141-152.
  • “Muslims Aren’t A Race, So I Can’t Be Racist, Right? Wrong,” Huff Post, November 19, 2016.
  • “Prophet Muhammad stood for humanity in Medina, while IS tries to destroy it,” Middle East Eye, July 11, 2016.
  • “What Prophet Muhammad’s covenants with Christians say about IS,” Middle East Eye, June 3, 2016.
  • “Christians and Muslims Should Embrace ‘The Jihad of Jesus,’” Huff Post, May 31, 2016.
  • “Jesus Christ and Prophet Muhammad Followed ‘The Golden Rule,’” Huff Post, June 21, 2015.
  • “The Price This Christian Pays For Respecting Islam,” Huff Post, May 11, 2015.
  • “Prophet Muhammad’s Example of Anti-Racism,” Huff Post, April 25, 2015.
  • “What Studying Muhammad Taught Me About Islam,” Huff Post, March 23, 2014.
  • “Overcoming Historical Amnesia: Muslim Contributions to Civilization,” Huff Post, January 23, 2014.
  • “Rumi and Emerson: A Bridge Between the West and the Muslim World,” Huff Post, October 14, 2013.
  • “Finding Tolerance in Akbar, the Philosopher-King,” Huff Post, June 10, 2013.