For his doctorate he worked on two British dramatists, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard, from a postmodernist perspective, looking into the problems of language, power, subjectivity, memory and history as reflected in the works of these playwrights. Mufti’s interests include literary theory, translation, religious studies and Classical Persian and Arabic literatures. Mufti has translated Mullah Tahir Ghani (d. 1669), the foremost Persian poet of Kashmir, for Penguin, India, which will be published in January 2013.