Safaruk Chowdhury studied Philosophy at Kings College London, graduating with an Associate of Kings College (AKC) award. He then travelled to Cairo to study the traditional curriculum of Islamic Studies at Al-Azhar University. He returned to the UK and completed an MA with distinction at the School of Oriental and African Studies. His doctoral thesis was on the distinguished Sufi hagiographer and theorist Abu 'Abdul-Rahman al-Sulami (d. 412/1021), and was published as A Sufi Apologist of Nishapur: The Life and Thought of Abu 'Abdul-Rahman al-Sulami (Sheffield: Equinox Publishing, 2019). Chowdhury's current research interests, in addition to Sufism, are in paraconsistent logic, metaphysics, ethics and epistemology, with a keen interest in how these issues are articulated and discussed in the Islamic intellectual tradition, particularly in theology of theology. His most recent book is Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil (New York and Cairo: AUC Press, 2021), the first work in Islamic Studies to address the subject from an analytical theology perspective. Chowdhury is currently the principal investigator of the project Beyond Foundationalism: New Horizons in Muslim Analytic Theology, funded by a John Templeton Foundation grant award in collaboration with the Muslim College of Cambridge and the Aziz Foundation. Chowdhury manages the Islamic Analytical Theology website and his academic work can be found on Academia.edu.