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. Starting in September 2024, we have been meeting monthly to delve into the latest scholarly literature on Islamic legal practices within various imperial contexts. Each session has focused on different aspects of Islamic legal institutions, such as courts, legal education, legal practitioners, property practices, marriage, and other institutions affected by imperialism, colonialism, and modern state in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Our geographical scope includes the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, and less-studied regions such as the Russian and European areas of former Ottoman provinces, as well as different regions in West Africa.
A key feature of the workshop series is the participation of authors whose books we will discuss. These scholars will present their work and engage in Q&A sessions with the audience, providing a platform for in-depth discussions. Our goal is to foster a multifaceted understanding of how Islamic law was influenced by imperial and colonial forces from the 18th century onwards.
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 […]
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.
A policy report addresses the downstream unintended consequences on Canadian Muslim charities, especially humanitarian ones, of Canada’s anti-money laundering, anti-terrorist financing, and sanctions regime.
