Dear IIS community, I’m thrilled and honoured to be taking on the role of Director of the Institute of Islamic Studies. Since being founded in 2013, the IIS has become a vibrant hub for Islamic Studies at UofT and beyond. I’m grateful to Professor Walid Saleh, the institute’s inaugural Director, and Professor Anver Emon, Director […]
July 2, 2026
Date: Sundays, June 7 – Mid August | Time: 10:30–11:45 AM (EDT)Location: Online via Zoom Register Here The Institute of Islamic Studies (IIS) is pleased to announce that Muslims in Academia Association will launch its Summer Reading Circle on June 7, 2026, focused on “Knowledge Transmission & Education in Muslim Contexts.” The ten-week program will engage both classical and contemporary scholarship […]
June 9, 2026
The crusader zeal and its attendant polemic established critical precedents for the proliferation of Anti-Islamic tropes and narratives in the premodern period. Throughout the four crusades, these narratives settled in the European canon and the Christian collective ‘psyche’. The discourse produced in this period is foundational in that it ‘sets the stage’ for contextualizing the manifestation of Islamophobic rhetoric across the Latin West, Iberia, and the colonies of European empires.
May 15, 2026