University of Toronto – Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC)

Islamic Art & Material Culture Collaborative (IAMCC)

Islamic Monitor — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 08:07:22 +0000

The Islamic Art and Material Culture Collaborative, a new research network based in Toronto that brings together the capacities and resources of the University of Toronto, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the Aga Khan Museum. The aim of the IAMCC is to foster innovative and interdisciplinary research on Islamic art and material culture, in part by leveraging the various institutional and research capacities dotting the Toronto landscape, thereby making Toronto a natural hub for this area of research.

The IAMCC sponsors the following activities:

• A student internship program
• Monthly workshops and research seminars
• Annual public lectures

The IIS serves as administrative headquarters for the IAMCC, while planning and direction is provided by the IAMCC planning committee:

• Ruba Kana’an, Visual Studies, UTM
• Ulrike al-Khamis, Director of Collections and Public Programs, Aga Khan Museum
• Heba Mostafa, Art History, UTSG
• Fahmida Suleman, Curator, Islamic Art and Culture, Royal Ontario Museum

Website: islamicstudies.artsci.utoronto.ca

Islam in the City: U of T literary magazine shares students’ stories

Islamic Monitor — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 08:40:59 +0000

A new University of Toronto literary magazine is empowering students to share their stories of what it means to be Muslim in Toronto – everything from takes on casual streetwear and evening shifts at local coffee houses to Islam among the city’s bubble tea shops and sports bars.

Published by the Institute of Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Arts & Science, Islam in the City gives students a forum to explore the complexities and nuances of everything that falls under the broad term “Islamic.” “We want to showcase that Muslims don’t just experience life as Muslims in the mosque, [but] that we’re just as likely to find Muslims and Islamic moments at the CN Tower, a cafe or the movie theatre,” explains Andrew Mackin, Islam in the City’s editor-in-chief. “We want to challenge the dominant narrative of what Islam is.”

Source: University of Toronto

Colloquium on Academic Shi’a Studies

Islamic Monitor — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 13:57:07 +0000

Session with a Group of Shi’a Studies Scholars

A group of 14 scholars from different countries who were interested to participate in a one-week intensive course on Shi’ism that was organized by the University of Religions and Denominations in Qum City accepted the invitation of IRIC to attend in a one-day Colloquium on Academic Shi’a Studies in Tehran at the end of their educational course.

This program was held in the premise of Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation on Thursday, August 31, 2017. The participants got to know about the activities and mission of Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) by Dr. Abdollah Edrisi. Then Dr. Maryam Mousavi and Dr. Fatemeh Taromi Rad presented the progress report on “Shi’i Studies in the United Kingdom” project.

Professors and scholars participated in the brainstorming workshop for “Research Proposals on Shi’i Studies” led by Dr. Hamid Azarinia, Institute of Imamite Studies.

The other programs were a presentation by Dr. Morteza Karimi-Nia on “Some new documents in the history of the Qurʾan; And some new findings in the history of Shīʿī tafsīr” and an introduction to Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation and a visit to its Library by Dr. Parviz Salmani.

Professors, experts and scholars like Dr. Kurt Richardson, University of Toronto, Canada, Dr. Alena Kulinich, London University, Britain, Dr. Filiz Kartal, Institute for Turkey and the Middle East, Turkey, Dr. Edith Szanto, The American University, Iraq, Dolores Richardson, Zakia Aqra, Angela Sogor, Paniz Musawi, participated in this colloquium.