SherAli Tareen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. His research focuses on Muslim intellectual traditions and debates in early modern and modern South Asia. He is also interested in the intersection of secularism and Islamic thought. His book Defending Muhammad in Modernity (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020) received the American Institute of Pakistan Studies 2020 Book Prize. He is currently working on his second monograph tentatively titled The Promise and Peril of Hindu-Muslim Friendship.