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.