I received my PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. My dissertation was awarded the British Association of Islamic Studies – De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World 2018. My first monograph, Harmonizing Similarities: A History of Distinctions Literature in Islamic Law (De Gruyter, 2019) is a study of the legal distinctions literature in Islamic law and its role in the development of the Islamic legal heritage. His primary research focus is on the classical Islamic written heritage, its interpretations, and epistemological problems in the study of pre-modern Islam. He is currently at work on several projects. Together with Matthew L. Keegan, he is currently completing an edition and translation of Khalīl al-Khūrī’s novella Oh, No! I’m not European. This project is under contract with NYU Press. He is also working on two other projects. The first is a kind of phenomenological study of Islamic legal thought in fourteenth century Cairo. This project is interested in seeing how scholars understood Islamic law, how they put legal knowledge into conversation with other scholarly disciplines, and what kinds of legal knowledge scholars produced. Saba is also working on a longer history of Arabic prosody (ʿurūḍ) and the purposes that scholarly pursuit of prosody had in the premodern and early modern period. He teaches course on religion in the Middle East. the history of Islam and Islamic societies, and theory and method in religion.