Mohammad Hassan Khalil is a Professor of Religious Studies, an adjunct Professor of Law, and the Director of the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University. Before returning to his hometown of East Lansing, Michigan, he was an Assistant Professor of Religion and visiting professor of Law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He specializes in Islamic thought and is author of Islam and the Fate of Others: The Salvation Question (Oxford University Press, 2012; Indonesian translation published in 2016; Albanian translation published in 2023) and Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism (Cambridge University Press, 2017); and editor of Between Heaven and Hell: Islam, Salvation, and the Fate of Others (Oxford University Press, 2013) and Muslims and US Politics Today: A Defining Moment (ILEX and Harvard University Press, 2019). He is also the lead investigator of the Muslims of the Midwest digital archive (muslimsofthemidwest.org); coproducer, codirector, and cowriter of the documentary film, American Jedi: The Salman Hamdani Story (Alexander Street, 2023); and co-PI of a project funded by Templeton Religion Trust entitled “Science, Art and Faith: Architectural Heritage and Islam.” He has presented papers at various national and international conferences and has published peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on various topics, from early Islamic historiography to bioethics.

He is the recipient of multiple awards, including, most recently, the William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award, which recognizes excellence across the mission of the university.

Research

Muslims of the Midwest is conceived as a multifaceted oral and visual history project with a substantial research component. The primary goal of the project is to establish and build a digital archive that documents the varied experiences of American Muslims in the Midwest through testimonies across generational, gender, geographical, socio-economic, and ethnic differences.

Multimedia Features

Faculty Story: Mohammad Khalil
Michigan State University College of Arts & Letters Faculty Stories

Coffee with Profs – Islam 101
The Coffee with the Profs MSU Alumni Lens series highlights a lecture by Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Muslim Studies Program at MSU. Dr. Khalil discusses the basics of Islamic beliefs and practices, and also address various hot topics during the question and answer session.