Jadaon Akhtar

PhD Student
jadaon.akhtar@mail.utoronto.ca

Fields of Study

  • Islamic Studies

Areas of Interest

  • Islamic origins
  • Historical Muhammad
  • Qur'an
  • Late antique religions and political states (Near Eastern)

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