SherAli Tareen

SherAli Tareen is Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College and was a member in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ during academic year 2024-25. His first book Defending Muhammad in Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020) received the American Institute of Pakistan Studies 2020 Book Prize and was selected as a finalist for the 2021 American Academy of Religion Book Award in the Analytical-Descriptive Studies Category. With thirty-three reviews to date since its publication, Defending Muhammad is the most reviewed book in Islamic Studies of the last three decades. His second book called Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire (Columbia University Press, 2023) was selected as a finalist for the 2024 American Academy of Religion Book Award in the Textual Studies category. It has so far been the subject of twenty-three reviews including being featured for special book forums in the Marginalia Review of Books, ReOrient: Journal of Critical Muslim Studies, and the Political Theology Journal. His third book Shah Waliyullah: Aspirations and Tensions of Islamic Cosmopolitanism is scheduled to be published in Oneworld Publications’ Makers of the Muslim World series in June 2026.