The McGill Institute of Islamic Studies Student Council is very excited to announce our keynote speaker for this year's Graduate Symposium, Professor Mohammed Rustom.
Mohammed Rustom is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Carleton University. He obtained his PhD in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto in 2009, specializing in Islamic Thought, Quranic Studies, and Persian Literature. After coming to Carleton in 2009, Professor Rustom also served as a Research Associate at the Tehran-based Iranian Institute of Philosophy in 2010.
Professor Rustom’s research focuses on Sufism, Islamic Philosophy & Theology, and Quranic exegesis (tafsir). His award-winning book The Triumph of Mercy: Philosophy and Scripture in Mulla Sadra (State University of New York Press, 2012) brings together all of these disciplines in an attempt to outline the profound manner in which they interact with one another in the writings of a key seventeenth-century Muslim thinker.
Dr. Rustom is the lead editor of an anthology of Professor William Chittick’s writings entitled In Search of the Lost Heart: Explorations in Islamic Thought (State University of New York Press, 2012). He is also Assistant Editor of The Study Quran: A New Translation with Notes and Commentary (Editor-in-Chief, Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr; HarperOne, in press).
Currently, Professor Rustom is writing a book on the famous twelfth-century Sufi martyr ‘Ayn al-Qudat Hamadani.
Dr. Rustom maintains an active lecture schedule, both in North America and abroad, and conducts public workshops on themes related to Islam and Muslims.
For more information, please visit the following website where you will have access to his CV, publications, books, courses, links and contact information. http://www.mohammedrustom.com/
It is with great pleasure that we invite you all to hear Professor Rustom speak at this year’s symposium.
He will be giving the keynote address at 3:30 pm on Wednesday April 29, 2015. We look forward to seeing you there.
Professor Mohammed Rustom