Jadaon Akhtar
First Name:
Jadaon
Last Name:
Akhtar
Email :
jadaon.akhtar@mail.utoronto.ca
Title:
PhD Student
Biography :
Jadaon is a PhD student at the Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations. He is broadly interested in all aspects of the earliest period of Islamic history with a specialized focus on the nexus between the historical Muhammad, the origin of Islam, and the composition of the Qur'an. He is a recipient of the SSHRC CGS-D for his doctoral research on the compositional history of the Qur'an.
Current Supervisor(s)
Walid Saleh
People Type:
Research Area:
Areas of Interest:
- Islamic origins
- Historical Muhammad
- Qur'an
- Late antique religions and political states (Near Eastern)