Muhammad Faruque
Muhammad U. Faruque (Ph.D. UC Berkeley) is the Taft Distinguished Professor at the University of Cincinnati, USA. A global philosopher who has lectured widely across North America, Europe, and Asia, his work brings Islamic philosophy, Sufism, environmental humanities, and contemporary philosophy into sustained dialogue in order to address some of the defining intellectual and civilizational questions of the present age. 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. He has also presented lectures at Harvard, Princeton, Cambridge, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and the University of Chicago. He is the author of five books and sixty academic articles, which have appeared (or are forthcoming) in numerous peer-reviewed journals. Professor Faruque’s first book Sculpting the Self (University of Michigan Press, 2021) has won Iran’s prestigious World Book of the Year Award. His forthcoming book The Interconnected Universe: Sufism, Climate Change, and Ecological Living (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2027) develops a theory of the “interconnected universe” and offers a new framework for understanding the global environmental crisis. 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).
