Iskander Abbasi (PhD) is a scholar of Contemporary Islam, Islamic Liberation Theology, Environmental Ethics, Decolonial Theory, and Islamophobia Studies. He is currently a Lecturer at Fordham University, where he teaches classes in Theology, Islamic Studies (law, theology, mysticism), and Religion and Ecology. He is a convener of and faculty at annual Critical Muslim Studies summer schools, previous co-chair of the Liberation Theologies unit at the American Academy of Religion, and has been an activist within Palestine solidarity movements in the USA and South Africa over the past fifteen years. His published writings can be found here.