Aun Hasan Ali's research centers on Islamic intellectual history. He is the author of The School of Ḥillah and the Formation of Twelver Shiʿi Islamic Tradition (London: I.B. Tauris, 2023). At CU Boulder, Ali teaches Religious Dimensions of Human Experience (RLST 1620), Islam (RLST 2202), The Quran (RLST 3040), Sufism (RLST 3070), and Fundamentalisms (4/5610). In addition to intellectual history, he maintains an interest in Urdu and Persian literature.