Nermeen Mouftah is assistant professor of religious studies at Butler University. She is a critical ethnographer of ethical and political life, focusing on Muslim projects variously articulated as social welfare, development, humanitarianism, and care. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in the Arabic-speaking Middle East, Pakistan, and the United States, her research examines Muslim responses to social inequality and exclusion as they shift over time and in interaction with political power. Her work examines how religious authorities, activists, and everyday people contend over “Islamic solutions,” and attends to the sometimes contradictory effects of their mobilizations. Her publications can be found in Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East; Contemporary Islam; and the International Journal of Middle East Studies, among others.