SherAli Tareen is an Associate Professor and Department Chair of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster PA. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual traditions and debates in early modern and modern South Asia. His 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. His second book called Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire was published in 2023 by Columbia University Press’ prestigious Religion, Culture, and Public Life series. He has published articles in various academic journals such as the Journal of Law and Religion, Muslim World, Political Theology, Islamic Studies, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, ReOrient, among many others. He also co-hosts the popular podcast New Books in Islamic Studies that features interviews with authors of important new books in the broader field of Islamic Studies.