Ali Altaf Mian is Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Seattle University.  His research interests include Islam in South Asia, Islamic law and ethics, gender and sexuality, feminist theory and practice, Sufism and comparative mysticism, continental philosophy, comparative religion, and theory and method in the study of religion. He is currently working on a manuscript titled, “Surviving Modernity: Ashraf ‘Ali Thanvi (1863-1943) and the Making of Muslim Orthodoxy in Colonial India.”