A social theorist interested in questions of religion, secularism, globalization and modernity, he engages with the assumptions underlying secular, social, scientific and religious knowledge of the human condition. His book Islam, Modernity and the Human Sciences (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) undertook a comparative analysis of Western and Muslim debates about social knowledge and the truth-claims that are made from religious and secular points of view. Currently, he is working on issues related to Qur’anic hermeneutics, secularism and blasphemy. His work has appeared in Theory, Culture and Society, International Sociology and the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences.