Sher Ali Tareen is an associate professor and chair of the Department 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) won 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, Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship after Empire, was published in 2023 by Columbia University Press’s 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, Re Orient, among many others. He also hosts the popular podcast New Books in Islamic Studies, which features interviews with the authors of important new books in the broad field of Islamic studies.