Mukhtar Ali

Dr. Mukhtar Ali is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, specializing in mysticism (Sufism) philosophy and ethics. His areas of interest include Arabic and Persian literature, Qurʾānic studies, theology, Traditional Chinese Medicine and comparative religion. He is the author of Philosophical Sufism: An Introduction to the School of Ibn al-ʿArabī (Routledge, 2021) and The Horizons of Being: The Metaphysics of Ibn al-ʿArabī in the Muqaddimat al-Qayṣarī (Brill, 2020) and his latest book, Inscriptions of Wisdom: The Sufism of Ibn al-ʿArabī in the Mirror of Jāmī, is a study on Ibn al-ʿArabī's masterpiece, Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam through the lens of Jāmī’s Naqd al-nuṣūṣ fī sharḥ Naqsh al-Fuṣūṣ. He has also translated two works in contemporary Islamic metaphysics, Dr. Akram Almajid's The Law of Correspondence (2021) and The New Creation (2018).