Daoud Nuh is an assistant professor in the Macro Practice Department at Boston University School of Social Work whose research sits at the intersection of environmental and climate justice, urban planning history, and community organizing. His work traces Black and Muslim traditions of counter-institution building and land struggle across the 20th century. He also writes on abolitionist histories of care and survival in Boston, including organizing by Mothers for Adequate Welfare (MAW) and the Prostitutes Union of Massachusetts (PUMA). He is an organizer for the Queer Muslims of Boston/QMOSQUE creating social and spiritual space for LGBT Muslims.

Hijra Theory: Black Planning and Islams of the Great Migration, is a book about how Black and Muslim communities in the United States have built shelter, institutions, and political commitments outside the terms of the settler state. The book reads this history through a vivid material archive: Muhammad Speaks cartoons and advertisements, mosque buildings, business networks, maps, schools, farms, and the histories of converted religious buildings in Detroit, Chicago, and Boston. This book treats hijra as a Black and Muslim technology of autonomy, available to current movements as a vocabulary for shelter, hosts, right-relationship with land, environmental and climate justice, and counter-institution building. This deepened understanding can strengthen transnational solidarities and both local and global struggles against domination.