MiCA partners Memorial University and Muslim Association of Newfoundland and Labrador (MANAL) have been awarded an SSHRC grant to launch the Muslim Narratives and Lives in Newfoundland and Labrador Community Project (MNL in NL Community Project). …
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Press Release: SSHRC Partnership Grant for Muslims in Canada Archives (MiCA)
The IIS is pleased to announce that Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council has awarded a Partnership Development Grant to support the development and growth of the Muslims in Canada Archives (MiCA). MiCA is a project of the IIS in …
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Press Release: Connaught Global Challenge Grant for Reading Muslims
The Institute of Islamic Studies will launch in Fall 2020 a new research collected entitled Reading Muslims. Supported with a recently awarded grant from UofT's Connaught Global Challenge Fund, Reading Muslims will be lead by Co-PIs Anver M. Emon …
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On Anti-Black Violence & Racism in the US and Canada
To the IIS community of faculty, staff, students, and community partners I’ve had the pleasure to talk to many of you over the last few days, as we struggle individually and collectively in the wake of horrific police violence against Black …
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The Esplin Arabic Manuscript Projects: The History and the Future
In 1973, David Esplin, then associate chief librarian of the Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library, purchased from Sulaiman’s Book Shop in Beirut, Lebanon, a collection of almost 1,200 manuscripts. These texts were primarily in Arabic and from the 19th …
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