He joined the Lehigh Community in 2009 as a Pre-doctoral Research Fellow with CGIS and was hired to his current position beginning Fall 2012. Hussain's doctoral work focused on the life and work of the 19th century Muslim reformer Sayyid Ahmad Khan and he received his PhD. from Yale University in December 2011. His research interests include the comparative study of religious ethics, political religion, modern Islam, and the relationship between tradition and modernity in contemporary religious discourse.