Professor Hussein Ali Abdulsater has been selected for the Distinguished Scholar Fellowship at the Shi‘a Research Institute for the 2026-2027 academic year.
He will be a visiting fellow of the SRI where he will meet with faculty and students, as well as deliver guest lectures at the University of Toronto.
We look forward to welcoming him during his visits during both the fall and winter semesters.
Dr. Hussein Ali Abdulsater is an Associate Professor of Arabic Culture and Islamic Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on Islamic intellectual history, particularly the development of theological schools, the formation of sectarian identities, and the various modes of rationalism expressed in Islamic theology and Arabic literature. Abdulsater obtained his Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from Yale University and an M.A. in Arabic Language and Literature from the American University of Beirut. He is the author of Shiʿi Doctrine, Muʿtazili Theology (2017) and Al-Jāḥiẓ and Religious Knowledge (2025).
October 2026 – Dr. Hussein Abdulsater addressed an SRI event entitled ‘Eloquence or Intervention? Explaining the Miracle of the Qur’an’, tracing the intellectual origins and varieties of the ṣarfa doctrine.
