Old Women of Nishapur event: A Seminar with Nada Moumtaz
The Old Women of Nishapur Initiative on Gender, Knowledge, Religion
Invites you to
ECONOMY, CHARITY, FAMILY
A SEMINAR WITH PROF. NADA MOUMTAZ (U. of TORONTO)
NADA MOUMTAZ is an Associate Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion and in the Department of Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. Her fields of study intersect the anthropology of Religion, Islamic Studies, and research on Culture & Politics. Her book God鈥檚 Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State (2021) examines the contemporary Islamic revival of a centuries-old charitable practice of pious endowment in Beirut to shed new light on the secularization of religion through the lens of its separation from 鈥渢he economy.鈥�
To participate in the seminar please email setrag.manoukian [at] mcgill.ca聽to receive the pre-circulated readings that fill constitute the ground for the seminar discussion.