Professor Aslıhan Gürbüzel
Professor Gürbüzel is an assistant professor of Ottoman history at the McGill Institute of Islamic Studies in Montreal. She completed her PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University in 2016. Her research and teaching interest include History of the Ottoman Empire, Islamic Political Thought, Religious Movements to 1800, and Manuscript Studies.
Professor Pasha M. Khan
Professor Khan is Chair in Urdu Language and Culture and an Associate Professor at the McGill Institute of Islamic Studies. He works on South Asian literatures, including literature in Urdu-Hindi, Persian, Punjabi, and Arabic. He teaches courses on Sufism, the cultural history of South Asia, marvellous tales in the Islamicate world, Urdu poetry, and the history and cultures of the South Asian and Muslim diaspora, particularly in Canada.
Professor Setrag Manoukian
Professor Manoukian is an anthropologist interested in knowledge and its relationship with power, understood both as existential and social force. He approaches cities, poems, videos and other technologies as forms of knowledge with specific existential trajectories and attends to their historicity. His area of speciality is Iran. Professor Manoukian is a joint appointment at the McGill Institute of Islamic Studies and the Department of Anthropology.
Professor Rula Jurdi Abisaab
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 sixteenth and seventeenth century Iran.
Sheheryar Ahmed
Sheheryar Ahmed is a Master's student at the Institute of Islamic Studies. He studies 19th century Urdu literary history and literature produced under British patronage and explores qustions of translation, Orientalist philology, pedagogy, and the shifting hierarchies of language and literary forms before and after the 1857 Rebellion.