Dr. Khurram Hussain holds an A.B. in Religion and Physics from Bowdoin College (1997) and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Yale University (2011). He is broadly interested in exploring the possibility of a robust critical conversation across diverse cultures and traditions, and has extensive training in comparative ethics, historical sociology and modern Western philosophy. His first monograph, Islam as Critique: Sayyid Ahmad Khan and the Challenge of Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2019), is an exploration of the work of 19th century Indian Muslim reformer Sayyid Ahmad Khan in a comparative perspective with Western thinkers like Reinhold Niebuhr, Hannah Arendt, and Alasdair MacIntyre. His second book, The Muslim Speaks (Zed Books, 2020), is a detailed examination of the tropes and discourses surrounding the category of Islam in modern Western public spheres.