PhD candidate, Western Sydney University
Ali Hammoud is a PhD candidate at Western Sydney University. He is broadly interested in Shīʿīsm and Islamicate intellectual history. His doctoral project examines Maḥbūb al-Qulūb, a little-known doxography authored by 17th century Shīʿī philosopher Qutb al-Dīn Ashkivarī. He has published “Interpretations of Qurʾānic Violence in Shīʿī Islam,” in Violence and Peace in Sacred Texts: An Interreligious Perspective, edited by Maria Power and Helen Paynter, 165-186, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023 and “That I May Unfold The Pain Of Yearning.” Sydney Review of Books, 2023.
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