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Sohaib Khan

Sohaib Khan is a scholar of comparative Islamic studies who studies connections between religion, law, and economic life in the Islamic Middle East and South Asia. Trained as an interdisciplinary historian and ethnographer, Sohaib received his Ph.D. (2020) from Columbia University’s Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in Islam at Pomona College and a Faculty Fellow at the Warren Center for American History at Harvard University. Sohaib is currently working on his first book, Translating Capitalism: How Muslim Jurists and Bankers Invented Sharī’a Compliance. Illuminating a world of expertise in which religion, law, and finance are deeply entangled, Translating Capitalism shows how South Asian Muslim jurists are reconfiguring finance from the margins of global capitalism.

Posts From This Author

[IMTF] How We Survive: Muslim Piety and Pragmatism in an Age of Finance

By Sohaib Khan // October 17, 2022March 22, 2023

In my previous contribution to this forum, I proposed a dialogical approach to understanding Muslim virtue ethics that put Islam’s textual tradition into conversation with the lived practices of Muslims. Since virtue ethics is concerned…

Market-Friendly Muslims: Cultivating Piety without Sacrificing Capitalism

By Sohaib Khan // January 18, 2022March 22, 2023

It is one thing to expound the conceptual anatomy of virtue ethics as articulated in Islamic traditions of moral philosophy, mysticism, jurisprudence, etc.; it is another to examine how such articulations are extended and enacted…