Muhammad U. Faruque (Ph.D. UC Berkeley) is Associate Professor of Islamic Philosophy and Environmental Studies at the University of Cincinnati and Director of Academic Affairs at the Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies. A scholar of Islamic Studies and a prominent global philosopher who has lectured widely across North America, Europe, and Asia, his books and academic articles have been translated into numerous languages and have been recognized by important funding bodies across the United States, such as the Templeton Foundation and the US Department of Education.
Professor Faruque’s first book Sculpting the Self (University of Michigan Press, 2021) was awarded the World Prize for Book of the Year by the Office of the Prime Minister of Iran. It interrogates the question of what it means to be human in a secular, post-Enlightenment world by exploring notions of selfhood and subjectivity in Islamic and non-Islamic philosophical traditions, including modern philosophy and neuroscience. His forthcoming book The Interconnected Universe: Sufism, Climate Change, and Ecological Living develops a theory of the “interconnected universe” and argues that Sufi contemplative practices foster an ecologically sustainable way of life rooted in an “anthropocosmic” vision of the self.
Alongside serving as Co-Editor of the Studies in Islamic Thought book series (Brill) and the journal Islamic Intellectual Traditions (Brill), Dr. Faruque is currently working on several major projects. One of them is dedicated to AI and the existential threat of information technology, and the other is a contemporarily accessible introduction to the famous Safavid philosopher Mullā Ṣadrā entitled, Why Read Mullā Ṣadrā Today? (Cambridge University Press).
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