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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nThursday, December 04, 2025 3:00 pm to 5:
 00 pm \n JHB 418 \n Jackman Humanities Building \n 170 St George Street, 
 Toronto ON M5R 2M8 \n\nSpeakers \nBasit Iqbal (McMaster University) \n\nDe
 scription: \nMuslim charities and community organizations have assumed a s
 ignificant role in refugee support since the Syrian catastrophe: in Jordan
  and Canada, as elsewhere, they deliver food aid, house orphans, and o
 rganize remedial education. But Islam is more than just a resource for hum
 anitarian projects. The Dread Heights details how the Islamic tradition gu
 ides refugees, relief workers, and religious scholars in a world of brut
 al sieges and mass displacement. Even as refugees become objects of humani
 tarian concern suspended between national orders, this ethnography brings
  another suspension into view: a form of life whose gestures are illuminat
 ed by the Quranic figure of the Heights. In the shadow of war, beyond hum
 anitarian order, Islam offers an orientation to the devastation of the pr
 esent.About the speakerBasit Kareem Iqbal is Associate Professor of Anthro
 pology at McMaster University. He is author of The Dread Heights: Tribulat
 ion and Refuge after the Syrian Revolution (2025) and editor of journal is
 sues on tribulation (2022), destruction and loss (2023), the in/capacita
 tion of tradition (2026), and the un/mooring of the present (2026). His c
 urrent projects include translating a book on the representation of violen
 ce and writing a series of essays on evil in creation.Our thanks to the De
 partment of Anthropology for its support of this event.  See DSR Lecture S
 eries 2025-26 Schedule \n\nSponsors \nDepartment for the Study of Religion
 ,Department of Anthropology \n170 St George Street, Toronto ON M5R 2M8 
 \n\nCategories \n DSR Lecture Series \n\nAudiences \n GeneralU of T Commun
 ityGraduate StudentsUndergraduate Students
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LOCATION:170 St George Street, Toronto ON M5R 2M8
SUMMARY:DSR Lecture Series: 'The Dread Heights: Tribulation and Refuge afte
 r the Syrian Revolution'
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.religion.utoronto.ca/events/dsrls-20251204
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