Faraz Masood Sheikh

I research and teach about the relations between ideas and discursive practices on the one hand and consciousness and subjectivity on the other. I focus on Muslim thought, both modern and pre-modern, from a comparative ethics perspective. I got my MA (Arabic and Islamic Studies) in NELC and PhD in Religious Studies (Comparative Religious Ethics and Islamic Studies) from Indiana University Bloomington (IUB). Since 2015, I have been assistant professor of religious ethics at William & Mary where I teach courses such as comparative religious ethics, religion in the time of cholera, subject formation in comparative perspective, Muslim ethics and Religion and social criticism. I am interested in the relations between scriptural interpretation and lived ethics, especially as this pertains to the Quran.