Received his B.A. from the University of Chicago (1997), and his M.A. (2009) and Ph.D. (2016) from the Hebrew University. After receiving his doctorate, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Modern Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia at Princeton University and at the Mandel Scholion Research Center.

His research focuses on Muslim theology, from the kalām to modern Muslim thought, with a central focus on Ibn Taymiyya and the salafī tradition in Islam.