Associate Professor Emeritus
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Areas of Interest
- Mystical Quranic Exegesis
- Islamic Thought
- Shi’ism
- Sufism
Education
BA, University of British Columbia
MA, McGill University
PhD, McGill University
Publications
- Being Human: Baha’i Perspectives on Islam, Modernity, and Peace (Kalimát Press : 2019)
- Tafsir as Mystical Experience: Intimacy and Ecstasy in Quran Commentary (Brill : 2018)
- The Quran: Epic and Apocalypse (Oneworld Publications : 2017)
- Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam (Brill : 2016)
- Baha’i History: A Special Issue of the Journal of Religious History (Wiley-Blackwell : 2012)
- A Most Noble Pattern: Collected Essays on the Writings of the Báb,`Alí Muhammad Shirazi (1819-1850) (Oxford: George Ronald : 2012)
- Gnostic Apocalypse and Islam: Qur’an, exegesis, messianism, and the literary origins of the Babi Religion (London and New York: Routledge : 2011)
- The Crucifixion and the Qur’an: A Study in the History of Muslim Thought (Oxford: Oneworld Publications : 2009)
- Reason and Inspiration in Islam: Theology, Philosophy and Mysticism in Muslim Thought (London & New York: I.B. Tauris in associaton with The Institute of Ismaili Studies : 2005)