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Rula Jurdi Abisaab is Professor of Islamic History at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, where she has worked since 2004. She teaches in all areas of Islamic-Shi`ite history and is especially interested in the transformation of juristic thought, the `ulama’s legal authority and relations of power in Shi`ite society during ...
Rula Jurdi Abisaab is Professor at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. Her research covers Safavid intellectual and socio-political history; Shiʿa law and...
Rula Jurdi Abisaab is a Professor of Islamic History at McGill University with a focus on Safavid Iran and Twelver Shi'ism. Her scholarship deals with Twelver Shi'a doctrinal, legal and juristic developments during the late medieval period, and their historical contexts.
- What The Camera Reveals – and Doesn’T
- Drawn to Lebanon
- Balancing Academia and Literature
The Latin title of the novel – literally hidden camera – is an elliptical reference to the old practice of examining eclipses without looking directly at the sun to protect the eyes. The novel touches on many themes, including gender relationships “in a patriarchal society,” mysticism, religious faith, sexuality, colonialism, resistance to puritani...
Abisaab’s parents travelled to Lebanon for a visit when she was three years old, and she’s returned regularly to the country ever since, including during the 1975-1990 civil war, during which she studied at the American University of Beirut. She later studied and taught in the U.S., and arrived at McGill in 2004, where she teaches Islamic history. ...
“I was very happy to join McGill and the Institute because it’s really a fine department. It’s the kind of intellectual atmosphere that allows you to grow – it has a very strong sense of collegial relations.” Abisaab, who is currently publishing her third collection of poems, says she has finally achieved the right balance she has long sought betwe...
Rula Jurdi Abisaab is Professor of Islamic History at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. With an emphasis on the intellectual and socio-political history of late medieval and modern Shiʿa societies, her research and publications reflect two significant trajectories.
Al-Jadid. Rula Jurdi Abisaab, McGill University: 381 Followers, 63 Following, 72 Research papers. Research interests: Islamic Studies, Islamic History, and Medieval….
Jun 1, 2016 · In this book Rula Jurdi Abisaab and Malek Abisaab provide a chronological narrative account of the Shiʻite community in South Lebanon (Jabal ʻAmil), in the
