Background
About Me
I am a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Manchester.
I am also a Life Member of Clare Hall College at the University of Cambridge and an Associate Member of the Birmingham Centre for Philosophy of Religion.
Research Activities
My research interests include medieval Islamic philosophy, philosophy of religion, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of logic. In recognition of my work, I was awarded a 2023 Philip Leverhulme Prize in Philosophy and Theology.
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I am an external member of Global Philosophy of Religion Project 2 (a project funded by the John Templeton Foundation and hosted by the University of Birmingham) and a senior advisor of RevLog (an ERC synergy project).
Editorial Roles
I was an associate member (Feb 2022 - Jul 2023) and earlier a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Oct 2020 - Jan 2022) at the Global Philosophy of Religion Project at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Birmingham. I was also a Humboldt Postdoctoral Researcher at Munich School of Ancient Philosophy (Apr 2019 - Sep 2020). I received a PhD in Philosophy from Tarbiat Modares University in 2015 and another in Theology and Religious Studies from the University of Cambridge in 2019.
I am on the editorial boards of Thinking World Philosophies (a book series by Edinburgh University Press), Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science (a book series by Springer), Religious Studies (a CUP journal), AGATHEOS (a recently launched open access journal for philosophy of religion).