Martin Nguyen is a Professor of Religious Studies at Fairfield University engaged in and committed to the work of Islam, theology, storytelling, and the religious imagination.
“A Path Forward” is part of the At The Threshhold theology film series, created by filmmakers Sean Dimond and John Harrison of Untamed. Filmed in early 2024 and released in July 2025 the film presents the nature of my work and the life that led me to it.
Recently Published
“A Case for Thinking and Living Theologically: Faith, Imagination, and Malcolm X,” Ḥāshiya, vol. 1 (2025), 106-117. Link Download
“Constructive Muslim Theology as Disruption, Invitation, and Ethical Intervention,” Muslim World, vol. 115, no. 1 (Winter 2025), 8-12. Download
“Charting the Theology of a Sufi Sage: The Ashʿarism of Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī,” in I of the Heart: Texts and Studies in Honor of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, edited by Muhammad U. Faruque, Atif Khalil, and Mohammed Rustom (Leiden: Brill, 2025), 582-603. Download
Thoughts in Development
I’m sharing thoughts-in-formation, drafts-in-progress, and more informal words that I’ve shared elsewhere via Substack:
In Progress
Monograph Manuscript – [Tentatively] Islam, Race, and the Displaced: Systemic Evil and the Ethics of Prophets and Strangers
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 “The House of Pharaoh and Systemic Evil”
- Chapter 2 “The Cultivation of Race”
- Chapter 3 “The Disfigurements of Space”
- Chapter 4 “The Measure and Motion of the Stranger”
- Chapter 5 “Prophetic Ethics”
- Chapter 6 …
Monograph Manuscript – [Tentatively] A Theology of Malcolm X
- Part 1 A Life of Changes
- Part 2 Be in the World
- Part 3 Command and Forbid
Martin Nguyen 