Education
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Research Interests
Dr. Faizi is Assistant Professor of Religion at LUMS in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences. His research interests include philosophy of religion, philosophical and scriptural hermeneutics, semiotics, and questions surrounding religion and modernity. His current research is focused on philosophic analyses of texts and thinkers wrestling with questions at the interface of religion, secularity, and modernity, with particular focus on how modern religious thinkers thematize relationships between scriptural texts and modern scientific and philosophic discourse. His current teaching work is focused on theories and methods in religious studies and topics within philosophy of religion.
Ochs, P., Faizi, N., Teubner, J. & Moulvi & Moulvi, Z. (2019). Value Predicate Analysis: A Language-Based Tool for Diagnosing Behavioral Tendencies of Religious or Value-Based Groups in Regions of Conflict. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 58 (1), 93-111.
Faizi, N. (2018). "Learning to Use Language with C. S. Lewis: A Response to Haley's 'The Re-enchantment of Education'". Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, 17 (1).
Faizi, N. (2016). "Averroes on the Relationship between Philosophy and Scripture: A Conditional Hierarchy". Journal of Scriptural Reasoning, 15 (1).
Faizi, N. (2020). Why saying 'only some Muslims are violent' is no better than saying 'all Muslims are violent', Published. Daniel Weiss and Julia Snyder (Eds.), Scripture and Violence, Routledge.
Faizi, N. (2021). God, Science, and Self: Muhammad Iqbal's Reconstruction of Religious Thought, McGill-Queen's University Press.
Faizi, N. (2018). "Religion as Modernity's Other: Muhammad Iqbal's Critique of Religion after Modernity". Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Denver, Colorado, United States of America.
Faizi, N. (2018). "Where Wisdom can be Found: Scripture and Wisdom in the Abrahamic Traditions". Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Denver, Colorado, United States of America.
Faizi, N. (2018). "Friendship at any Cost?". Scriptural Reasoning in the University (SRU) conference at Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Faizi, N. (2017). "The Problem with Particularization: When Some Muslims are Violent". Scriptural Reasoning in the University (SRU) conference at Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Faizi, N. (2016). "Reconstructing Religion: Iqbal on the Purposes of Islamic Philosophy". Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America.
Faizi, N. (2015). "From Generality to Vagueness: C. S. Peirce's Re-reading of the Pragmatic Maxim". Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Columbia, Maryland, United States of America.
Faizi, N. (2015). "Interpretation as Restoration: Sayyid Ahmed Khan's Argument for the Modernity of the Qur'an". Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.
Faizi, N. (2014). "Scripture as Approximate Philosophy: Averroes' 'Harmonization' of Philosophy and Scripture,". "Public Scripture: Reading Out of Context" Graduate Colloquium at UVA, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America.
Faizi, N. (2014). "Domesticating the Jinn: Sayyid Ahmed Khan's Exegesis of the Qur'an". "Beasts, Monsters, and the Fantastic in the Religious Imagination" Graduate Conference at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America.
Faizi, N. (2014). Sayyid Ahmed Khan's Naturalistic Hermeneutics. Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Diego, California, United States of America.
Faizi, N. (2014). "The Study of Religion in the Academy". Graduate Advisory Board Fest at the Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures, UVA, Charlottesville, VA, United States of America.
Faizi, N. (2013). "Distinguishing Dialogue and Monologue: Patterns of Scriptural Interpretation in Muhammad Iqbal". Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
Faizi, N. (2013). "Reason, Scripture, and the Senses". Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
Faizi, N. (2012). "Abrahamic Reasoning and Environmental Ethics". Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America.
Faizi, N. (2012). "Beyond Anarchy: Implicit Patterns and Interdisciplinary Methodology" (Co-presented). Annual Conference of New Directions in the Humanities, Montreal, Canada.