Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Islamic Studies
Areas of Interest
- Islamic family law
- Religion and medicine
- Medieval social history
- Interreligious interactions in the Islamicate world
- Geniza studies
Biography
Sara Verskin is trained as a historian of the medieval Arab-Islamic world. She is particularly interested in Islamic law and its intersections with women's lifecycle events. She also studies medieval medical science and healing practices and how people from different religions, classes, and genders interacted in medical settings. She earned her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University in 2017 and was awarded the 2018 British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) - De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World. Her book Barren Women: Religion and Medicine in the Medieval Middle East was published in 2020 by De Gruyter. Thanks to a grant from the Knowledge Unlatched organization, the book is now available via open access.