News: Workshop

Location: Teams | Time: 12 pm to 2 pm EST | Date: Friday, July 11, 2025 Register Here Workshop Presenter: Dilyara Agisheva Dilyara Agisheva is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto. Our workshop series aims to investigate the transformations in Islamic law under the influence of imperial powers, colonialism, and the modern state. Since […]

Date: November 19, 2024 | Time: 4:00 to 5:00 PM | Location: Zoom Register Here Description: In 2016, the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) began a public interest inquiry into Indigenous and racialized children’s and youth’s involvement with Ontario’s child welfare system. In their 2018 report, Interrupted Childhoods: Over-representation of Indigenous and Black Children in Ontario Child Welfare, the OHRC found that Black […]

Register Here Description We are excited to announce a master class titled “Computational Hadith Studies: Survey of a New Field”. This master class will be led by Dr. Mairaj U. Syed.  This session is intended for a discussion among graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty.  Date, Time and Format The 3-hour master class will be held […]

Register Here Date: Monday, October 7, 2024 Time: 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM Location: JHB DSR Room 318, Dept for the Study of Religion, 170 St. George St. Toronto We are excited to announce an upcoming workshop titled “Science and Scripture in a Medieval Plague Treatise (Ibn Hajar’s Merits of the Plague).” This workshop will be led by Dr. […]

Register Here We are excited to announce a master class titled “Reason of State,” examining the German securitization of knowledge production concerning Palestine/Israel. This master class will be led by Dr. Schirin Amir-Moazami.  This session is a follow-up to a public lecture and is intended for a detailed discussion among graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty. […]

Register Here We are excited to announce an upcoming workshop titled “Reason of state”, examining German securitization of knowledge production on Palestine/Israel. This workshop will be led by Schirin Amir-Moazami, Professor of Islam in Europe at the Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie Universitat Berlin on Wednesday, September 25th, 2024.  Workshop Abstract: In a speech at […]

Location: Zoom | Time: 2 pm to 4 pm | Date: Thursday, March 7th Land and Legal Texts in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: Harmonization, Property Rights and Sovereignty (2023) delves into the evolution of Ottoman land law, tracing its development from the sixteenth century to the 1858 Land Code. Through an analysis of legal […]

Location: Zoom | Time: 2 pm to 4 pm | Date: May 16 Welcome to our monthly workshop on Islamic law and imperialism. The goal of our workshop is to explore the local legal transformations that occurred under the influence of imperial powers. Our workshop series aims to decentralize the traditional narratives of European colonialism. […]

Time: 1:30 PM to 3:30 PM Date: January 25, 2024 Virtual: Register Here Welcome to our monthly workshop on Contemporary Islamic Thought. The goal of this series is to explore the understudied reformist Islam of the late Syrian intellectual Muhammad Shahrour (1938-2019). Shahrour’s writings, which appeared with the decline of pan-Arabism in the late 1900s and in response […]

Virtual Event: Register Here Time: 2 pm to 4 pm Date: Thursday, January 18th Welcome to our monthly workshop on Islamic law and imperialism. The goal of our workshop is to explore the local legal transformations that occurred under the influence of imperial powers. Our workshop series endeavours to decentralize the traditional narratives of European […]

Dear members of the Islamic Studies community at UofT, It is our pleasure to announce the Winter 2023 Semester schedule for the Islamic Studies Past, Present, and Futures Workshop. All sessions will meet on Tuesdays at noon Eastern in a hybrid format: in-person at the IIS offices (fifth floor, Jackman Humanities Building) or on Zoom. […]

The master class is intended to introduce the students to how a text like the Muwatta’ has been read by Muslims and even non-Muslims over its long, 1,000+ year history.

Situated at the nexus of critical Muslim studies and critical futures studies, this workshop invites students to contemplate and vision alternative futures.