Race, Caste, Sect, and the Limits of Pan-Islam

When and Where

Friday, April 01, 2022 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Online

Speakers

Esmat Elhalaby, University of Toronto

Description

How Christian missionaries and Azhari ulema approached Indian Islam in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Professor Esmat Elhalaby (University of Toronto) is an intellectual historian of modern West and South Asia at the University of Toronto. His writing has been published in Modern Intellectual History, Arab Studies Journal, Boston Review, American Quarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, Dissent, and elsewhere. For his article “Empire and Arab Indology” Elhalaby was awarded the inaugural Amílcar Cabral Prize from the Institute of Contemporary History in Lisbon.

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Sponsors

Michael E. Marmura Lecture, Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations