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Dr. Kamran Bashir

Dr. Kamran Bashir is a historian of modern Islam, whose research focuses on the history of the interpretations of the Qur鈥檃n in South Asia and the allied question of how modern Muslim views of the life and person of the Prophet Muhammad evolved in the historical contexts of colonial and post-colonial India and Pakistan. He did his MA in Muslim Cultures from the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (London, United Kingdom) and earned his PhD in History in 2018 from the University of Victoria (British Columbia, Canada). Dr. Bashir published his book The Qur鈥檃n in South Asia with the Routledge Studies in the Qur鈥檃n Series (September 2021) and contributed a chapter to Religious Imaginations: How Narratives of Faith are Shaping Today鈥檚 World (ed. James Walters, Gingko Library, London, 2018). His research work has appeared in the Journal of Qur鈥檃nic Studies on Qur鈥檃nic hermeneutics, and Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture on the ethnohistory of marginalized communities in modern South Asia. He has taught courses in liberal arts at the University of Victoria, Camosun College, and Beaconhouse National University (Lahore, Pakistan).

Dr. Amyn B. Sajoo

Amyn Sajoo on Middle East politics, human rights, and international law.  His research is at the interface of citizenship & public religion. He served as the Canada-ASEAN Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, with fieldwork in Indonesia and Malaysia 鈥� followed by academic affiliations at Cambridge and McGill universities, and the Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS), London. His early career was with the Canadian departments of Justice and Global Affairs, and he was the latter鈥檚 Visiting Academic in the Middle East in 2010.  

Dr. Sajoo is contributing editor of the , in which the fifth volume, , was selected as a 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association. Since 2018, he has hosted a series of public conversations on 鈥淚dentity & Citizenship,鈥� co-sponsored by this Centre.  The theme for the 2022 series is 鈥淚slamophobia,鈥� in which his onstage guests will include Anver Emon, Kamal al-Solaylee, Ulrike al-Khamis, Mohammed Fadel, and Jasmin Zine.